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Nanoskin Towel & 6" Fine pad review
sscully:
Just got a chance to start the basic testing today.
Paint condition :
3 coats of Optiseal with 24 cure time between each coat.
2 coats of Opti Car wax
1 or 2 coats of PB Spray & Gloss.
Tree sap on paint, prior to this, the paint was smooth and had just been ONR QD'd and PB Spray & Gloss applied.
Nanoskin Towel, w/ Nanoskin Glide 7:1 mix & Nano Shock review
The hood of my F150 I would consider "well cared for", so I am starting with the towel and the 2 Nano lube products.
1st thing - Break in the pad/towel on the windshield for 20 seconds with your lube of choice PRIOR to putting it to paint.
My hood has the "weekly" tree sap on it from going to my Parents house ( Mature Oak trees on by the driveway make it impossible to avoid.
Figure no time better than now to give it the test on a paint that I could tell if marring was an issue.
Dusted off and ONR'd the hood, still had tree sap on the paint.
1st 25% of the hood was the Nakoskin Towel w/ the Nano Glide product mixed at 7:1 ( directions on bottle ).
Applied Nano Glide mix with a sprayer turned all the way in, so it was a fine mist and coated the surface as I would with normal clay lube. Used the Nanoskin towel folded in quarters and rubbed in a straight line over the test section.
Dried off, and checked. No marring on the paint, and it was clean & smooth.
Next 25% tried the towel with Nano Shock as the lube ( this is the clay / clean & seal in 1 step ).
The Nano shock worked well as a lube, and added some pop to the finish, but it turned the Dark Stone more smoke color than UPS brown. Depending on the product used, this can happen I have found out.
I washed the Nanoskin towel in the ONR bucket, lightly dragging it over the grit guard and hung up to dry.
Nanoskin 6" Pad & PC w/ Nanoskin Glide 7:1 mix vs 6" pad & ONR at 15:1 as lube
Next 25% I used the Nanoskin Glide lube ( 7:1 ratio ) and the 6" pad on a 6" Megs back plate ( from the MF kit ) and the PC on speed 3.
Coated the section with Nano Glide from the sprayer ( same coverage that I would use as std clay and as above with the towel ) and put the PC on the paint turn on at speed 1 and crank up to speed 3.
The pad did not spin, only had the random part of the motion, unless I picked up some weight off the PC.
Worked the section for about 12 seconds, and checked while still wet, felt no sap left on the paint.
Dried off the section, and checked again, it is smooth as glass.
Next 25% of the hood, I used ONR QD strength ratio, coated the hood and used the PC at speed 3.
Same as before the pad did not spin unless I took weight off it. I bumped the speed to 3.25, and the pad seemed to spin with less weight being taken up.
Seemed to work a bit better with the ONR vs the Nanoskin Glide mixed @ 7:1 ratio, I should have mixed a small batch of Clay lube ratio ONR to test, but ran out of easy testing.
In my opinion the Nanoskin towel works better for the contours on the hood of my '06 F150, but for large surfaces the pad would be very useful.
It cuts down drastically on paint decontamination time, while leaving a paint that is ready for a touch up polish.
The part of the hood where I overlapped the towel w/ Nano Glide mix & the pad w/ ONR QD strength, I seem to have stripped the Optiseal, as when I sprayed the hood with water after finishing ( to check for beading ) that one overlap section seem to have more sheet than bead to it. Some time this week I will find time to strip the hood down with Hyper polish and a black LC pad, and re start the Optiseal 3 coat application.
Don't know when I am going to have time to use the Nanoskin Med Pad on dad's truck, it needs to be clayed / compound / polish / Optiseal in the worst way.
This will give me more of an acid test for severe contamination paint. I will not be able to get an indication of marring, as looking at the hood, it was loaded with swirling when I took a quick look at it a few weekends back. Got dad 2 grit guards, new 3.5 gal buckets and a few new wash mitt options. Don't know if I have broken him of the bucket of soapy water sitting around with the antique wash mitt from the Regan administration method of washing.
I have not tried the pads that seem to be of the same material or the SM Arnold towel to see if they are the same thing or not.
Rollingrock:
what a great write up...gonna digest it again when i can see straight on Monday.
Too Stroked:
Hmmm, this stuff is really starting to interest me now. Thanks for the very complete writeup Steve!
sscully:
The towel seems to be the one to use for me. Conforms to the contours in body panels a bit better.
Don't know if I should be putting this on the Flex on speed 1 or 2.
Think the slow RPM ( is 1 = 150 RPM on the flex ?? ) with the orbit action might work better...
Still researching on that part. Dad might be the test case without knowing it is jumping off a cliff. :redneck:
sscully:
Last night I got time to start on correcting the Fiberglass cap on my '06 to apply Opti Coat 2.0 on it ( last tall detail work gone :clap: ).
Paint condition :
3 coats of Optiseal with 24 cure time between each coat.
ONR cleanings and 1 wash since application.
Few marring defects on the top of the cap ( out of sight ) that I did not see when I prep'd the surface for Optiseal, but saw after I did the 1st coat of Optiseal.
I dusted the top, used Optimum Opti-Clean to clean the cap.
review of the paint surafce the marring seems to be the same as what was there before I cleaned it
- I did not take it to 100% when I did the Optiseal application earlier this year.
I used the Nanoskin Glide mixed at 7:1 ratio ( lube directions on bottle ) in a quart bottle with a double mist sprayer.
I applied the lube liberally to the top, same as I would with clay lube.
I mounted the 6" Fine Nanoskin pad on the flex, and set the speed to 1 ( 160 RPM on the rotation speed, then add in the orbital motion ).
I worked the surface for ~ 2 min total, 1 min on each half
- cap roof is on a 5.5' SCrew bed.
I dried the surface and inspected it.
I found a bit of additional marring on the cap i do not recall seeing before, but I cannot say for 100%, if it is was there or not. It is very minor addition to the surface.
the Flex on speed 1 did not sling the lube off the paint like the PC would on speed 4 ( trying to get pad rotation not just orbit motion ).
I would say for paint surface that is not in bad condition ( heavy contamination ) and is going to have at least a follow up polish ( depends on paint characteristics- soft or hard ) done on it, the Flex with the Nanoskin pad and the correct amount of lube, it is quicker when compared to the PC usage with the Nanoskin pad.
Thought I would update the review.
ITEM of NOTE :
This is on a Century Fiberglass cap, not factory paint. This could have an impact on the amount of marring that "regular" paint might get.
I cannot say for sure if the marring I am seeing was caused by poor ONR QD cleanings, the Opti-clean application prior to the Nanoskin application or the nanoskin itself. This could be a case of the marring was there before I started, and I just did not catch it ( using halogen work lamps for lighting ).
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