Wtf???

[tonystevens]

Fast Lad Performance

[callum]

"This is an innovative new cleaning clay is designed to absorb and digest dirt, fuel, grease dust and oil residue from your helicopter or plane."

[tonystevens]

No sh!t sherlock! But how do you use it?

[jamiem]

If you google "claybar" you will see what it is. It's an automotive product, used for removing contaminants which etch in to the paint, usually road tar, industrial fallout, dust grime etc. The thing is, these contaminants take time to accumulate on a car, and it takes many hours in the sun for them to be baked in to the lacquer. On a Heli, I can't see it as a problem?!? Claybarring a car removes these contaminants and makes the paint finish feel like glass, and makes cleaning the car much easier and quicker in the future. (I work in the automotive industry )

[zoombolt]

In a 'cleaning' way.

[jamiem]

Oh by the way, it's like a lump of plasticine which you rub over the panel with lots of lubricant, usually plenty of water is fine when finished look at the clay bar and it will have lots o black or dark spots on it if it's done it's job, and the panel will feel like glass, as new

[tonystevens]

LOL, i had visions of packing it into tight spots that you cant easily clean and then trying to pick it back out!

So it should clean the burnt fuel spots of mufflers then?

[callum]

lmao!

[Planehazza]

Oh by the way, it's like a lump of plasticine which you rub over the panel with lots of lubricant, usually plenty of water is fine when finished look at the clay bar and it will have lots o black or dark spots on it if it's done it's job, and the panel will feel like glass, as new

Yup I do my entire car about once every 6 months with it, it's amazing how quickly it builds up again. As you said, can't see the point of it at all on a heli? I simply use a rag and some household multi-surface cleaner. Does the job great!

[jamiem]

unlikely tbh, as these are stains. The thing thats important here is that the lacquer on a painted finish never ever sets fully, it's always very slightly viscous, and therefore when the sun gets on it, it allows the contaminants to sink in a little bit - obviously this doesnt happen on a metal surface like a muffler.

[tonystevens]

then the only thing its useful for is the canopy then, or making a little clay helicopter when all the tinkering is done

[moyesboy]

You know, there are two sorts of R/C heli owners, there's heli flyers, and the other sort.
An R/C heli shop has to have products to suit both types!

After the third crash, I got round to wiping the build up of mud of my plastic bleach bottle 600n canopy the other day

[tonystevens]

You know, there are two sorts of R/C heli owners, there's heli flyers, and the other sort.
An R/C heli shop has to have products to suit both types!

After the third crash, I got round to wiping the build up of mud of my plastic bleach bottle 600n canopy the other day

Not sure which catagory i fall into there lol
Although i do like a clean heli