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[Mike Phillips]

At any rate I do appreciate these deep dives into the science of this stuff, great response by you, thank you.

Might not be a deep dive, could be I'm just too lazy to spray my pads with a wetting agent.

Seriously, there's nothing wrong with wetting a foam cutting pad to make it less sharp, it's just something I have never done and seem to get away with it.

I do know that when companies sell polisher in KIT FORM - they usually include a Pad Conditioner, which is basically water, and this is how they increase total profit for the kit.

This is done because there's very little profit in selling just a polisher.


Mike

 

[Dsholes78]

Seriously, there's nothing wrong with wetting a foam cutting pad to make it less sharp, it's just something I have never done and seem to get away with it.

Understood. I never really did it with consideration of lessening the cutting strength but more so to have some sort of product on the pad rather than just the “3 pea sized drops” to begin with.
But it all makes sense.

That’s it, maybe I just need to use gold standard polish

 

[Mike Phillips]

Understood. I never really did it with consideration of lessening the cutting strength but more so to have some sort of product on the pad rather than just the “3 pea sized drops” to begin with.
But it all makes sense.

Totally get it, what I do is place the pad onto a section of paint, this is usually my test spot if I'm just starting out and then turn the polisher on to a medium speed setting and then just move the polisher/pad in a slightly larger diameter circle than the pad.

This helps the product to migrate around on the pad. Then I place a few drops of product, usually around the outer edges of the pad so they have both abrasive technology and lubrication.


Then I do my test spot. And once I dial-in my test spot, then I repeat this anytime I switch to a clean, dry pad.

Basically, I make the pad prime itself. (lazy man's method)

 

[MAXMAX]

Thank you I thought so!!

I am also doing research on paint sealants lots of discussion out there.
I am looking for a durable paint sealant the environment does get hot in my area. Over 100 degrees! I do put car covers on my daily use cars . Nick