pad not spinning

[Jimmie]

Originally Posted by Surfer

PC moves in a random orbit, it more so "grinds" the polish instead of circular motion of a rotary.

and the strange thing is even if it's not spinning it leaves "half-moon" trails in the polish.

[fech]

I noticed that also. When I apply wax, the circles are there but the pad isn't spinning.

[jeepe]

may be same problem that I had with mine. My backing plate came with a spacer(washer) app. 1/8" thick. It fell off the second time I used it, which caused my backing plate to be so close to the polisher that everytime I put the polisher against the car it would not spin. Like yours it would spin if I just held it up in the air. I was ready to send mine back when I found the spacer in my box. I put it back on the backing plate and it has worked great ever since. I've been told that not all polishers needed a spacer (washer) but mine did. Hope this might help