Corn Starch

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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #15 on: April 14, 2005 - 06:09:13 PM »
no, you dont wet anything.  Do it DRY!




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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #16 on: April 14, 2005 - 06:45:55 PM »
I might have to try this on my Stratus.  Someone scratch up my driver's side rear door.  Backed into a piece of wood that left a little scratch on the bumper too.  Hmm.... :dontknow:

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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #17 on: April 14, 2005 - 07:11:36 PM »
no, you dont wet anything.  Do it DRY!
Sounds to me like it'll chafe! :o


















Sorry, couldn't resist. :laughing:

Well, I'll give it a shot...the paint's already half dead anyway, so I've got nothing to lose. :thumbs:

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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2005 - 10:13:45 PM »
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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2005 - 10:28:45 PM »
OK< here are the after shots.  I did the Cutlass too so I will include those pics as well. 


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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2005 - 10:30:25 PM »
OOOOOO, AAAAAHHHHH!!! :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:  Very nice April!  Thanks for the photos.
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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #21 on: April 18, 2005 - 11:05:35 PM »
Wow, that is quite glossy.  I might have to try it on my mom's car or something first before I can verify results for myself. :laughing: That looks very nice!  Still don't know if it would beat my Zaino, though. :grinno:

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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #22 on: April 19, 2005 - 06:05:20 AM »
Wow, that is quite glossy.  I might have to try it on my mom's car or something first before I can verify results for myself.

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April, how much cornstarch did you use for the 2 cars?
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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #23 on: April 19, 2005 - 08:27:44 AM »
Wow, that is quite glossy. I might have to try it on my mom's car or something first before I can verify results for myself. :laughing: That looks very nice! Still don't know if it would beat my Zaino, though. :grinno:

It looks great!!  I might have to agree withy 67 cuda........  I 'll bet it was a little chaeper than the Zaino though :tongue:

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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #24 on: April 19, 2005 - 08:36:53 AM »
That really turned out great April!  I wonder what that would do on a black truck....hmmmm. 
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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #25 on: April 19, 2005 - 10:51:26 AM »
Very nice!!  :grinyes:  ;D  :grinno:   Can you . . like . . . fly to Michigan and show me how you do that??    :worship:   :worship:   :worship:

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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #26 on: April 19, 2005 - 02:01:13 PM »
Did you wax afterwards?
I thought for sure I'd see some swirl marks on the black area of the hood scoops, but I don't.


Looks great, by the way! :thumbs:

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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #27 on: April 19, 2005 - 02:23:18 PM »
Very nice!! :grinyes: ;D :grinno: Can you . . like . . . fly to Michigan and show me how you do that?? :worship: :worship: :worship:
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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #28 on: April 19, 2005 - 04:01:53 PM »
Thats the beauty of the cornstarch ...no swirls unless your paint is trashed out anyway. It won't bring dead paint back either(its not a substitute for rubbing compound) . The better the paint the better it seems to work. We used to use it for car shows - after we washed and waxed we would cornstarch it during setup and on an indoor show it would really shine under the lights (looks good in sunlight too) . It is the finest  POLISHING compound you can find that wont burn your paint . works especially well on urethane that has lost that wet look too 
As you can tell April's cars had great looking paint on it to begin with - the cornstarch just brings back that wet paint shine again . It was just something I discovered by accident one day...but thats another story ...LOL

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Re: Corn Starch
« Reply #29 on: April 19, 2005 - 04:48:46 PM »

As you can tell April's cars had great looking paint on it to begin with - the cornstarch just brings back that wet paint shine again . It was just something I discovered by accident one day...but thats another story ...LOL

Oh, please do tell now.  Thanks for the great tip, Outlaw! :thumbs:
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