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Hey Paul, I was in an auto parts store the other day and they had a couple different brands of some sort of polishing kits that contained a block of clay and some other stuff. The directions indicated that that you were supposed to rub the surface down with the blob of clay and it would buff out fine scratches and polish clear-coats, gel-coat, etc. Like Scratch-X in block form???? Any experience with this sort of thing?

Hi, Estevan...

Clay bars are used to remove impurities from a car's paint or clearcoat finish prior to doing a wax job from scratch.

Really, really anal car owners (spelled P-O-R-S-C-H-E, F-E-R-R-A-R-I, and W-A-N-N-A-B-E-E-S) will do this to their car when they don't want to spend time with their wives or online posting. Then they have an excuse to wax it for the third time that week.

It removes impurities that cars are likely to get. I suppose this could be done before Scratch-X and Zymol, to get the surface really superb, but, really, on a geetar or base it's a waist of time.

jingle_jangle wrote:I suppose this could be done before Scratch-X and Zymol, to get the surface really superb, but, really, on a geetar or base it's a waist of time.

What sort of base? Base coat? Lamp base?


A base with no waist.

Gee, I was gonna' make my wife do it, so that I'd have more time for posting online......"Here honey, take this clay bar out and rub it all over the T-Bird before you wax it..... Do you think you could also do my twelve-strings while I watch this football game?"
Probably a good way to get a big glob of clay stuffed down my throat by a woman swearing in Latvian.....

Love the avatar Teb.

This thread made me smile............a lot. Thanks guys.

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....what's really funny is that while Photoshopping my face into the photo of Esteban (or "Steve" as we call him here in America - especially when he was born in Pittsburgh) I noticed that he's wearing a big name tag.....as if a lot of folks might confuse him with somebody else while wearing that get-up.

teb wrote:....what's really funny is that while Photoshopping my face into the photo of Esteban (or "Steve" as we call him here in America - especially when he was born in Pittsburg) I noticed that he's wearing a big name tag.....as if a lot of folks might confuse him with somebody else while wearing that get-up.

Now that is funny

I hadn't noticed the name tag before...

... can't ... stop ... laughing ...

teb wrote:Gee, I was gonna' make my wife do it, so that I'd have more time for posting online......"Here honey, take this clay bar out and rub it all over the T-Bird before you wax it..... Do you think you could also do my twelve-strings while I watch this football game?"
Probably a good way to get a big glob of clay stuffed down my throat by a woman swearing in Latvian.....

Just add "Es tevi mīlu" when you ask, Estaban.

I'd probably screw it up. The only things I know how to say in Latvian are "Happy Birthday" to my mother in law and "Vilks apeda siere bumbu" which translates as "A wolf ate the cheese ball". I find this to be a useful everyday phrase in almost any language....

teb wrote:I'd probably screw it up. The only things I know how to say in Latvian are "Happy Birthday" to my mother in law and "Vilks apeda siere bumbu" which translates as "A wolf ate the cheese ball". I find this to be a useful everyday phrase in almost any language....

Hahahaha!! New one on me!

Es tevi mīlu means I love you. After 31 years of marriage to a full Latvian, you'd think more would have sunk in, but after her Dad died 22 years ago, not much Latvian has been spoken around the house. When her Mom died a couple years ago, that about ended it.

BTW, the 12th was my daughter Kaija's Varda Dienu. [Names Day]

teb wrote:... "Vilks apeda siere bumbu" which translates as "A wolf ate the cheese ball". I find this to be a useful everyday phrase in almost any language....

With all these cheese balls running around today, very useful, IMO.