Lake Country Hydro-Tech pads

[bull6791]

I wanted to find out how good hydro-tech pads are and if anyone uses the. Thanks.

 

[Mike Phillips]

Don't buy them. The IDEA sounds good on paper but they don't work because they are CLOSED CELL foam structure.

Here's what I mean,

The theory behind a closed cell foam structure is that because the cells are CLOSED - theoretically, LIQUIDS cannot penetrate INTO the INSIDE of the foam, and instead, the closed cell design TRAPS the liquid, (compounds, polishes and waxes), between the surface of the pad and the paint.

The problem with this is, the dual oscillating and rotating action on any orbital polisher, is VIOLENT enough, that with pressure, (you apply a little pressure to the head of the polisher), and TIME - (it takes hours to buff out a car), that the liquids do in fact penetrate INTO the center and all the to the back of the buffing pad. So the idea is good on paper, but in execution, it simply doesn't work.

Worse - once you load up the inside of a closed cell pad with liquids, because the cells are closed, it's more difficult and time consuming to get the liquids out of the inside of the pad,

And there's yet another downside to closed cell foam pads and that is they don't offer the same tensile strength as open cell pads. This mean, where the foam of an open cell design can stretch, closed cell foam will tend to tear.


I tried the Hydro-Tech pads when they were first introduced and wrote about them in my how-to books and after my initial review, I never used them again.

From the year 2010 - 16 years ago.

Thin is in...


Mike

 

[Sean]

Don't buy them. The IDEA sounds good on paper but they don't work because they are CLOSED CELL foam structure.

Here's what I mean,

The theory behind a closed cell foam structure is that because the cells are CLOSED - theoretically, LIQUIDS cannot penetrate INTO the INSIDE of the foam, and instead, the closed cell design TRAPS the liquid, (compounds, polishes and waxes), between the surface of the pad and the paint.

The problem with this is, the dual oscillating and rotating action on any orbital polisher, is VIOLENT enough, that with pressure, (you apply a little pressure to the head of the polisher), and TIME - (it takes hours to buff out a car), that the liquids do in fact penetrate INTO the center and all the to the back of the buffing pad. So the idea is good on paper, but in execution, it simply doesn't work.

Worse - once you load up the inside of a closed cell pad with liquids, because the cells are closed, it's more difficult and time consuming to get the liquids out of the inside of the pad,

And there's yet another downside to closed cell foam pads and that is they don't offer the same tensile strength as open cell pads. This mean, where the foam of an open cell design can stretch, closed cell foam will tend to tear.


I tried the Hydro-Tech pads when they were first introduced and wrote about them in my how-to books and after my initial review, I never used them again.

From the year 2010 - 16 years ago.

Thin is in...


Mike

Mike, where can we purchase or obtain your how-to-books?

 

[Mike Phillips]

Mike, where can we purchase or obtain your how-to-books?

They are not only out of print, but at this point in time, there's so much new information, topics, techniques, tools, and technology, that they all need to be updated.

I am writing a new book, stay tuned.


Mike