Another clay bar question

[bnjny]

The clay bar should have been cut into smaller pieces from the beginning.

You can knead it and fold to get the clean side...

Knead and fold.

[groucho]

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[LORENSWIFE]

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[Bob Holmes]

You know, it occurs to me that you may be using too big a piece and not "feeling" the paint surface. I hold the half dollor sized piece with three fingers and slide it along. I can easily tell when the surface is done and to move on. I also keep the surface very wet. There is never any clay transfer to the paint. If there is, the surface is not wet enough.

[Bob Holmes]

It really doesn't take much time at all. Provided that there isn't a lot of crap embedded in the paint.

For instance, on the Fox Mustang, the front fender wouldn't take me more than 10 minutes. As soon as I feel the surface stop pulling on the clay on move on. Usually not more than a stroke or two. I can't imagine it taking more than 2 hours on a normal car.

Now when I had to remove the Lizardskin overspray, that took a bit of time, but man the car looked great when I was through. I couldn't believe that it would pull that stuff off. It just took worrying the drops from multiple directions until it pulled it completely off.

[groucho]

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[70chevyC-10]

YIKES! Size of 1/2 dollar? It'll take me a year to do my 38!

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[groucho]

I pull off a piece from the chunk, about the size of a gumball. Knead so that its elastic, and the size of about a half dollar. Spray the offending panel and then, using only one side, slide it along the paint in the longest direction of the panel. When I feel the need to fold it I fold the dirty side under, clean side over, fold it again, then knead it back to the half dollar size. I do that over and over and over again. I've never had the accumulated gunk scratch the paint. Usually I end up dropping it and throwing it out first.

YIKES! Size of 1/2 dollar? It'll take me a year to do my 38!

[Bob Holmes]

I pull off a piece from the chunk, about the size of a gumball. Knead so that its elastic, and the size of about a half dollar. Spray the offending panel and then, using only one side, slide it along the paint in the longest direction of the panel. When I feel the need to fold it I fold the dirty side under, clean side over, fold it again, then knead it back to the half dollar size. I do that over and over and over again. I've never had the accumulated gunk scratch the paint. Usually I end up dropping it and throwing it out first.

[groucho]

How do you guys fold a clean surface from the inside of the bar? I keep folding mine, and all I'm doing is re-folding dirty to dirty. Let's say it's in the shape of a bar of soap. Can I slice it like bread and put the two dirty sides together? Or is that NOT gonna happen? Thanks