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Mike Phillips Classes at the 2027 Mobile Tech Expo Trade Show
Just confirmed my class schedule for MTE. Here's the topics, dates and times.
How to Turn a Gear-Driven Orbital Polisher into a Money Making Machine
Time: 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Room: Gatlin A1
Conference: Mobile Tech Expo 2027
Session Type: Interactive Workshop
Speaker: Mike Phillips - Dr. Beasley's - Stuart, FL
Course Description
We all love the smooth feel of a free-spinning random orbital polisher, but that smooth feel comes with a tradeoff-pad rotation can slow down or stall. With a gear-driven orbital, both pad rotation and oscillation are mechanically driven, which means ZERO pad stalling and consistent correction over flat panels, curves, and contours.
In this class, Mike Phillips will teach techniques for maximizing the versatility of a gear-driven orbital, reducing unnecessary tool changes, and eliminating what Mike calls Brain Drain-constantly monitoring whether the pad is rotating or stalling.
Master the tool. Eliminate pad stalling. Reduce tool changes. Correct paint faster. Get more cars done. Make more money.
Learning Objectives
1. Maximize Correction Efficiency — Learn why mechanically driven pad rotation eliminates pad stalling and how that can increase correction efficiency on flat, curved, and complex body panels.
2. Master Gear-Driven Polisher Techniques — Learn techniques for adapting the polisher to different panel shapes and sizes, reducing unnecessary tool changes and keeping the correction process moving forward.
3. Eliminate Brain Drain and Increase Productivity — Learn how eliminating the need to continually monitor pad rotation reduces Brain Drain, allowing the detailer to concentrate on technique, results, and completing paint corrections more efficiently.
1: The Future of Paint Correction
Time: 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Room: Gatlin A1
Conference: Mobile Tech Expo 2027
Session Type: Interactive Workshop
Speaker: Mike Phillips - Dr. Beasley's - Stuart, FL
Course Description
For decades, compounds and polishes have relied on conventional oils and other organic ingredients to suspend abrasive technology, provide lubrication, extend working time, and make residue easier to wipe off. While this approach has worked successfully for generations, advances in ceramic and nanotechnology are creating new ways to correct, refine, and prepare automotive paint.
In this class, Mike Phillips will explore the science behind modern inorganic polishing technology and explain how a ceramic-based carrying agent can perform multiple functions during the paint correction process. These functions include suspending abrasives, providing the slip and lubrication necessary for efficient pad movement, and simultaneously creating a ceramic foundation over the freshly corrected surface. Learn to work smarter, reduce labor, increase profits while creating happy repeat customers.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this class, attendees will be able to:
1. Understand Modern Polishing Technology
Understand the roles that abrasives, carrying agents, slip, and lubrication play in compounds and polishes, including the differences between conventional organic-oil-based carrying agents and newer inorganic, ceramic-based technology.
2. Understand How Polishing Chemistry Affects Machine Performance
Learn how slip, lubrication, and product characteristics affect pad rotation, cutting efficiency, working time, and overall performance when using free-spinning random orbital, gear-driven orbital, and rotary polishers.
3. Improve the Paint Correction and Coating Preparation Process
Learn how modern ceramic-based polishing technology can correct and refine paint while simultaneously creating a coating-friendly foundation—helping eliminate unnecessary steps, reduce the risk of reintroducing defects, and preserve as much of the original paint as practical.
The Rotary Polisher is BACK! — Master the King of Heavy Correction
Time: 8:00am to 9:00am
Room: Gatlin A3
Conference: Mobile Tech Expo 2027
Session Type: Interactive Workshop
Speaker: Mike Phillips - Dr. Beasley's - Stuart, FL
Course Description
The rotary polisher is still the KING of serious cutting power and fast, heavy paint correction-but only if you know how to wield it. Modern abrasive and pad technology are helping bring the rotary back. In this class, Mike Phillips will share time-proven techniques for maximizing its cutting and finishing ability.
Some argue a long-stroke orbital can correct paint faster. Maybe on a flat panel-but cars aren't flat. Learn "The Way of the Rotary Polisher" for tackling curves, contours, edges, and complex body panels. Learn techniques for heavy correction, removing sanding marks, first-step polishing, and even jewelling for maximum gloss.
Never fear the rotary polisher-but always respect it. Master the rotary for faster correction, better results, and greater efficiency.
Learning Objectives
1. Master Rotary Polisher Technique
Learn how to properly control a rotary polisher over flat panels, curves, contours, edges, narrow sections, and complex body-panel shapes.
2. Increase Heavy-Correction Efficiency
Learn how to combine modern compounds, polishes, and pad technology with rotary techniques to remove severe defects and sanding marks faster and more efficiently.
3. Learn Both Cutting and Finishing Techniques
Learn how to use the rotary for heavy correction, first-step polishing, and jewelling—while also learning what NOT to do to avoid common rotary-polisher mistakes.
Machine Dry Sanding — Sand Smarter, Buff Faster, Preserve More Paint
Time: 9:00pm to 10:00pm
Room: Gatlin A3
Conference: Mobile Tech Expo 2027
Session Type: Interactive Workshop
Speaker: Mike Phillips - Dr. Beasley's - Stuart, FL
Course Description
Hand wet sanding is the time-proven method for leveling orange peel, but it's messy, labor-intensive, and requires skill. Machine damp sanding has its place, but foam-backed discs tend to follow surface texture rather than aggressively flatten it.
Machine dry sanding offers another approach. In this class, Mike Phillips will demonstrate how modern machine dry sanding technology can quickly and uniformly reduce orange peel while creating a shallow, consistent sanding pattern that's faster and easier to buff out.
You'll learn how selecting the right abrasive, grit, interface, and machine can reduce sanding and buffing time, minimize heat during sanding-mark removal, and help preserve more of the precious paint you're working on.
The result? A flatter, more uniform finish with less mess, less labor, less aggressive buffing, and greater control over the entire process.
Sand smarter. Buff faster. Keep the paint cooler. Preserve more paint.
Learning Objectives
1. Learn to Reduce Orange Peel with Machine Dry Sanding
Understand how machine dry sanding can quickly and uniformly reduce orange peel while providing greater control over the sanding process.
2. Create a Sanding Pattern That's Faster and Easier to Buff Out
Learn how selecting the correct abrasive, grit, interface, and machine creates a shallow, uniform sanding pattern that reduces the time and aggressiveness required during sanding-mark removal.
3. Reduce Heat, Labor, and Unnecessary Paint Removal
Learn how an efficient sanding and buffing process can reduce labor, minimize heat during polishing, and preserve more of the precious paint you're working on.
What is Mobile Tech Expo?
In simple terms, Mobile Tech Expo – better known as MTE – is one of the biggest and most comprehensive trade shows and educational events for the professional car detailing and Paintless Dent Repair industries. It brings together detailers, PDR technicians, manufacturers, educators, industry leaders, and some of the newest tools, products, and technologies in the automotive appearance world—all under one roof.
What really sets MTE apart from most traditional trade shows is Thursday – Education Day. Instead of opening the trade-show floor, the entire day is dedicated to education, with classes covering detailing, PDR, business and marketing, tools, techniques, technology, and other topics designed to help you improve your skills and grow your business.
Then on Friday and Saturday, the trade-show floor comes alive. Companies from across the United States and around the world set up booths where you can see and experience their latest products, tools, equipment, and technologies. You can meet the people behind the brands, watch live demonstrations, discover new products, ask questions, make industry connections, and put your hands and eyes on products before investing your hard-earned money.
Whether you're a professional detailer, PDR technician, business owner, or simply passionate about the automotive appearance industry, MTE is the place to learn, network, discover what's new, and connect face-to-face with the people and companies shaping the future of the industry.
Just confirmed my class schedule for MTE. Here's the topics, dates and times.
THURSDAY
How to Turn a Gear-Driven Orbital Polisher into a Money Making Machine
Time: 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Room: Gatlin A1
Conference: Mobile Tech Expo 2027
Session Type: Interactive Workshop
Speaker: Mike Phillips - Dr. Beasley's - Stuart, FL
Course Description
We all love the smooth feel of a free-spinning random orbital polisher, but that smooth feel comes with a tradeoff-pad rotation can slow down or stall. With a gear-driven orbital, both pad rotation and oscillation are mechanically driven, which means ZERO pad stalling and consistent correction over flat panels, curves, and contours.
In this class, Mike Phillips will teach techniques for maximizing the versatility of a gear-driven orbital, reducing unnecessary tool changes, and eliminating what Mike calls Brain Drain-constantly monitoring whether the pad is rotating or stalling.
Master the tool. Eliminate pad stalling. Reduce tool changes. Correct paint faster. Get more cars done. Make more money.
Learning Objectives
1. Maximize Correction Efficiency — Learn why mechanically driven pad rotation eliminates pad stalling and how that can increase correction efficiency on flat, curved, and complex body panels.
2. Master Gear-Driven Polisher Techniques — Learn techniques for adapting the polisher to different panel shapes and sizes, reducing unnecessary tool changes and keeping the correction process moving forward.
3. Eliminate Brain Drain and Increase Productivity — Learn how eliminating the need to continually monitor pad rotation reduces Brain Drain, allowing the detailer to concentrate on technique, results, and completing paint corrections more efficiently.
1: The Future of Paint Correction
Time: 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Room: Gatlin A1
Conference: Mobile Tech Expo 2027
Session Type: Interactive Workshop
Speaker: Mike Phillips - Dr. Beasley's - Stuart, FL
Course Description
For decades, compounds and polishes have relied on conventional oils and other organic ingredients to suspend abrasive technology, provide lubrication, extend working time, and make residue easier to wipe off. While this approach has worked successfully for generations, advances in ceramic and nanotechnology are creating new ways to correct, refine, and prepare automotive paint.
In this class, Mike Phillips will explore the science behind modern inorganic polishing technology and explain how a ceramic-based carrying agent can perform multiple functions during the paint correction process. These functions include suspending abrasives, providing the slip and lubrication necessary for efficient pad movement, and simultaneously creating a ceramic foundation over the freshly corrected surface. Learn to work smarter, reduce labor, increase profits while creating happy repeat customers.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this class, attendees will be able to:
1. Understand Modern Polishing Technology
Understand the roles that abrasives, carrying agents, slip, and lubrication play in compounds and polishes, including the differences between conventional organic-oil-based carrying agents and newer inorganic, ceramic-based technology.
2. Understand How Polishing Chemistry Affects Machine Performance
Learn how slip, lubrication, and product characteristics affect pad rotation, cutting efficiency, working time, and overall performance when using free-spinning random orbital, gear-driven orbital, and rotary polishers.
3. Improve the Paint Correction and Coating Preparation Process
Learn how modern ceramic-based polishing technology can correct and refine paint while simultaneously creating a coating-friendly foundation—helping eliminate unnecessary steps, reduce the risk of reintroducing defects, and preserve as much of the original paint as practical.
SATURDAY
The Rotary Polisher is BACK! — Master the King of Heavy Correction
Time: 8:00am to 9:00am
Room: Gatlin A3
Conference: Mobile Tech Expo 2027
Session Type: Interactive Workshop
Speaker: Mike Phillips - Dr. Beasley's - Stuart, FL
Course Description
The rotary polisher is still the KING of serious cutting power and fast, heavy paint correction-but only if you know how to wield it. Modern abrasive and pad technology are helping bring the rotary back. In this class, Mike Phillips will share time-proven techniques for maximizing its cutting and finishing ability.
Some argue a long-stroke orbital can correct paint faster. Maybe on a flat panel-but cars aren't flat. Learn "The Way of the Rotary Polisher" for tackling curves, contours, edges, and complex body panels. Learn techniques for heavy correction, removing sanding marks, first-step polishing, and even jewelling for maximum gloss.
Never fear the rotary polisher-but always respect it. Master the rotary for faster correction, better results, and greater efficiency.
Learning Objectives
1. Master Rotary Polisher Technique
Learn how to properly control a rotary polisher over flat panels, curves, contours, edges, narrow sections, and complex body-panel shapes.
2. Increase Heavy-Correction Efficiency
Learn how to combine modern compounds, polishes, and pad technology with rotary techniques to remove severe defects and sanding marks faster and more efficiently.
3. Learn Both Cutting and Finishing Techniques
Learn how to use the rotary for heavy correction, first-step polishing, and jewelling—while also learning what NOT to do to avoid common rotary-polisher mistakes.
Machine Dry Sanding — Sand Smarter, Buff Faster, Preserve More Paint
Time: 9:00pm to 10:00pm
Room: Gatlin A3
Conference: Mobile Tech Expo 2027
Session Type: Interactive Workshop
Speaker: Mike Phillips - Dr. Beasley's - Stuart, FL
Course Description
Hand wet sanding is the time-proven method for leveling orange peel, but it's messy, labor-intensive, and requires skill. Machine damp sanding has its place, but foam-backed discs tend to follow surface texture rather than aggressively flatten it.
Machine dry sanding offers another approach. In this class, Mike Phillips will demonstrate how modern machine dry sanding technology can quickly and uniformly reduce orange peel while creating a shallow, consistent sanding pattern that's faster and easier to buff out.
You'll learn how selecting the right abrasive, grit, interface, and machine can reduce sanding and buffing time, minimize heat during sanding-mark removal, and help preserve more of the precious paint you're working on.
The result? A flatter, more uniform finish with less mess, less labor, less aggressive buffing, and greater control over the entire process.
Sand smarter. Buff faster. Keep the paint cooler. Preserve more paint.
Learning Objectives
1. Learn to Reduce Orange Peel with Machine Dry Sanding
Understand how machine dry sanding can quickly and uniformly reduce orange peel while providing greater control over the sanding process.
2. Create a Sanding Pattern That's Faster and Easier to Buff Out
Learn how selecting the correct abrasive, grit, interface, and machine creates a shallow, uniform sanding pattern that reduces the time and aggressiveness required during sanding-mark removal.
3. Reduce Heat, Labor, and Unnecessary Paint Removal
Learn how an efficient sanding and buffing process can reduce labor, minimize heat during polishing, and preserve more of the precious paint you're working on.
What is Mobile Tech Expo?
In simple terms, Mobile Tech Expo – better known as MTE – is one of the biggest and most comprehensive trade shows and educational events for the professional car detailing and Paintless Dent Repair industries. It brings together detailers, PDR technicians, manufacturers, educators, industry leaders, and some of the newest tools, products, and technologies in the automotive appearance world—all under one roof.
What really sets MTE apart from most traditional trade shows is Thursday – Education Day. Instead of opening the trade-show floor, the entire day is dedicated to education, with classes covering detailing, PDR, business and marketing, tools, techniques, technology, and other topics designed to help you improve your skills and grow your business.
Then on Friday and Saturday, the trade-show floor comes alive. Companies from across the United States and around the world set up booths where you can see and experience their latest products, tools, equipment, and technologies. You can meet the people behind the brands, watch live demonstrations, discover new products, ask questions, make industry connections, and put your hands and eyes on products before investing your hard-earned money.
Whether you're a professional detailer, PDR technician, business owner, or simply passionate about the automotive appearance industry, MTE is the place to learn, network, discover what's new, and connect face-to-face with the people and companies shaping the future of the industry.
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