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Hot, humid and drizzling, but I went ahead and taped off my trunk into 3 sections:
1. hand polish
2. no polish
3. PC polish
No polish:
Comment: Nasty.
Polish by hand, foam pad, 3 applications, 10 minutes:
Comment: Not bad. Definitely improved
Polish by PC, 2 polish applications, 10 passes, 5 minutes
Comment: Wow. I didn't realize how much improvement I've been doing on customers' cars until I started doing these side-by-side comparisons.
As you can see, the optical clarity is quite dramatic when using a PC.
I'll be taking and posting swirl pics of the 3 sections tomorrow if the sun is out.
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I'm assumig PC is some sort of polishing device but not sure. What does it actually stand for? I know im gonna need a trout slap once you tell me.
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Porter Cable buffing machine tool not Personal Computer and speaking of tool Pete is a tool but I still like him because he is taller than me and wears funky clothes almost like a free spirit but not all earthy and hippy like a seventys porn star that is all about free love and peace and giving free love and getting free love and speaking of free love I am tired of paying for what should be free love.
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Is it raining, Pete? 
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i still do it by hand. call me old fashioned.
1999 Silver Frost SVT
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Quaife, lightened SVT Flywheel, SPEC stage II clutch, removed resonator, k&n drop in - various other goodies too.
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Originally posted by ChattavegasSE:
Is it raining, Pete?
Apparently it's monsoon season on the East coast. It's killing my detailing schedule. 
Originally posted by TGO:
i still do it by hand. call me old fashioned.
And unfortunately getting far inferior results. I just checked the swirl levels under street lights in the rain and the hand polished section is a little better. The PC section is virtually swirl free.
Polishing by hand is good for paint in very good or better condition. Moderately swirled or worse and a PC/orbital is the only way to go.
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AMAZING. . .Where can you get one of these polishers? Thx!
Austin -officially a troll
See it here
Pro-Flow w/ optimizer STILL for sale
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Originally posted by GTO Pete:
And unfortunately getting far inferior results.
Polishing by hand is good for paint in very good or better condition. Moderately swirled or worse and a PC/orbital is the only way to go.
yadda yadda, it works fine for me. how do you know what condition my paint is in or how inferior my results are anyway?
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