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I found this at kragen auto parts today. $4.99
all the other wax they had contained cleaners(petroleum distillates)any 1 know anything about this wax? I'm gonna give it a try and i will post the results
i found a new wax today. it says its a 100 percent pure carnuba car wax and it is made from banana oil. its called miami shine and is designed to be used in hot temperatures or in direct sunlight for miami weather. ill have to see how it works on playfields. its $35 for a gallon
#1: Pure carnauba (spelling, people!) wax is useless for applying to pf's, cars, etc. It is too hard and brittle--pure carnauba is *not* a paste!
#2) Miami Shine can't be "100 percent pure carn[a]uba" wax if it has banana oil, right?Carnauba wax comes from the carnauba palm, which is not a banana tree.
All car waxes have some soft waxes and/or petroleum distillates/byproducts, etc. included so they are soft and can be spread on a surface.
#1: #2)
Consistency, people! : )
the formula 1 wax says on the label carnauba wax,no mention of cleaner. all the other wax i looked at at kragen and walmart had cleaner in the title and had petroleum distillates in them.including the mothers and mcguire's labels. i figured i would give the new wax a go and i will report on it. i started cleaning the jet spin pf last weekend. hopefully i will be able to get to waxing this weekend.
Pure carnauba wax is hard as a brick and not spreadable at all. Carnauba-based car waxes typically blend in other waxes, petroleum distillates and/or silicones. They have to add *something* to form a spreadable composition.
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it appears that it is no longer true that you must blend in something else to make it spreadable - companies are now blending the carnauba itself in a way that retains the spreadability. P21S is a good example (they have two versions, one has beeswax, the other is pure 100% carnauba - check amazon.com, you'll pay $34 for the beeswax version, around $55 for the pure). see, e.g., http://www.autogeek.net/p21s-100--carnauba-wax.html
deeper investigation is always useful.
stevenp61 is right.
when products (including P21S) say "100% carnauba wax", they mean just that - the *wax* is 100% carnauba. but the wax content is only something like 40% (typically, for the better ones) of the total - the rest is oils and solvents/dissolving agents.
i'm still going back-and-forth on whether the 100% is $20 better than the carnauba/beeswax combo. apparently the advantage is that it will be harder - meaning it should last longer on the p/f.
actually, a concrete question: how much actual wax do you use in a single p/f waxing? i mean, if i buy an 8 oz. tub of wax, how many p/f waxings will that cover, roughly?