160 Pictures - December 13th, 2025 1-Day Paint Correction and Ceramic Coating Class in Stuart Florida

Mike Phillips · Dec 19, 2025

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2-Step Panit Correction Process & Ceramic Coating
The class will be using their choice of orbital polisher, and my strong admonition is to test out all the gear-driven orbital polishers first, and then test out any free spinning, random orbital polisher they're' interested in. For pads we're using the Buff and Shine maroon foam cutting pad with NSP 150 followed by the white foam polishing pads with NSP 95. To seal the paint, the class will be using the Dr. Beasley's Nano-Resin 2.0 Ceramic Coating.

Here's Marvin testing out the RUPES Mille

Here's Tom testing out the Harbor Freight HC109B Forced Rotation Dual Action Polisher with the Buff and Shine EdgeGuard MAROON cutting pad.

Here's Tom testing out the RUPES Mille

Out back Victor is revisiting the FLEX BEAST

Kathy using the FLEX Supa BEAST, which is the lighter, quieter, cooler and smoother version of the original XC 3401 VRG aka the BEAST.

Small Backing Plate with Large Pad
If you look carefully, we're running 7" Buff and Shine EdgeGuard foam pads on the smaller 5" backing plate on the RUPES Mille. The larger footprint works to SMOOTH OUT the feel of the RUPES Mille making it easier to guide over different shaped body panels or when moving from one plane to a different plane.

Just to note, there is a 6" backing plate option from RUPES for the Mille, here's link,

Rupes Mille Backing Plate | 6" 150mm | For Gear Driven Polisher LK900E

Here's Kathy testing out the original FLEX BEAST!

Here's Aaron also using the BEAST

The RUPES gear-driven, 5mm Mille

Here's Tom testing out the Harbor Freight HC109B Forced Rotation Dual Action Polisher with the Buff and Shine EdgeGuard WHITE polishing pad.

The BEAST - All Brawl, Zero Stall!

I finally got a picture of Yancy, our video guy and my assistant for this class doing actual work. LOL

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Mike Phillips · Dec 19, 2025

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Time to seal the deal, that is time to install the ceramic coating. First the class applies the Paint Coating Builder.

Next, the class installs the ceramic coating.

Here's the Final Results!

Here's the Detailometer BEFORE measurements

Here's the Detailometer AFTER measurements

Machine vs Man
Interesting thing is that even though the paint was totally swirled out, it still had good gloss and distinction of image with low haze. In the after readings the measurements improved only slightly, but to the HUMAN EYE - the before and after results are incredibly dramatic and that's what the class was aiming for, incredible results!

Here's what the numbers mean,

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Mike Phillips · Dec 19, 2025

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1-Step Ceramic AIO - Budget Detail - 1966 Corvette Race Car

Patiently waiting for her turn...

Another opportunity to practice with a rotary polisher
Normally, I bring in car with only minor swirls, scratches, water spots and/or oxidation. This is the type of paint condition that works best for doing, or in my case, teaching how to do a 1-step paint correction process that seals the paint at the same time.

But the paint on this 1966 Corvette Race Car was so badly filled with swirls and scratches, I let the class hone their rotary polisher skills as a first step, and then we used the Dr. Beasley's NSP Z1, which is a ceramic all-in-one or AIO. In the old days these were called cleaner/waxes. Dr. Beasley's Z1 uses ceramic for protection instead of wax - that's the big difference.

It would be hard to find a car with worse, but savable paint.

Mike

Mike Phillips · Dec 19, 2025

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Test Spot
Here's before and after results for the test spot using only a rotary polisher. After the class gets going, the class will follow the rotary step with an orbital step using foam pads and Z1