THE BLOB ELIMINATOR
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Published on Thu, Jun 24, 2004
By: The LACar Editorial Staff
The Blob Eliminator might have made that yellow soft
top look better.
THE
BLOB ELIMINATOR
Langka Excess Touch-up Paint Remover
Car enthusiasts can be rather obsessive compulsive about their cars. Most people
look for the closest parking space to their intended destination. Car nuts look
for the space that is least likely to result in a door ding. That usually means
parking in the outer reaches of the parking lot. "Hey, it's good exercise
to walk," we say to ourselves. This explains why
getting that first paint chip in an enthusiast's new car takes on the importance
of a front page news event. Traditional wisdom calls for touch-up paint, but
those little paint bottles invariably end up leaving little globs (or blobs) of
paint where there once was a chip. Enter Langka Corporation. Back in 1996, they were commissioned by a touch-up paint company to
develop a "wipe on; wipe off" process for their touch-up paints. The
end product was The Blob Eliminator - a three-step process consisting of (1)
cleaning the area, (2) applying your touch-up paint (and allowing it to dry),
and (3) wiping off the excess paint, using a plastic card (or smooth
cloth-wrapped plastic card) and a generous amount of The Blob Eliminator cream. On
small chips (typically, around 1/8 inch in diameter), The Blob Eliminator leaves
a virtually unblemished finish - eliminating both the chip and any excess glob
from the touch-up paint. On larger dings (like one-half inch in diameter), the
results aren't quite as satisfying, but it's still better than having a
ding on the car. Best of all, a 2 ounce bottle goes for $19.95 - a whole
lot cheaper than taking it to an auto body shop.
- Roy Nakano
