Cleaning Pads during a Detail.

[blkexcoupe]

Originally Posted by Gary Sword

That funny, I hate to stop detailing to clean pads. After soaking the clean up real easy at the end of a detail.

In the middle of the detail it's only 1 pad to clean, but at the end of the day it could be a small bucket full sometimes. Also stopping to clean the pads means a break from that UDM/PC vibration.

[Sevenrd]

Like Gary, I just toss them in a bucket with pad cleaner and put a fresh one on.

[P1et]

Personally, I wash the pad out quickly with some Wolfgang pad cleaner. Then I spin them dry or blot them dry, then back to work!

[stiffdogg06]

Since I have so many pads that I've ordered. I use a new pad for every panel.

A cleaner pad has faster cutting ability. So I use it, set it aside and then clean it at night; since I only used it once, there's barely any residue on it anyways so it comes clean really easy.

[ZoranC]

I have number of pads at hand, I just slap new one on, I clean them later, time is money.

[wolfpacker92]

Originally Posted by 67Customs

Just FYI,

Before all you people that have never tried it before go out and start spinning your pads on a machine to dry them, make sure it is on a lower setting or else the pad is going to fly off and chop your nose off, put your eye out or kill your dog. So be careful when free spinning a pad on a machine because it can fly off at a rapid speed. I've seen it happen.

(That is mostly for the hook and loop pad users. I don't see the edge type system pads having this problem.)

Yeah first time I dried mine this way I didn't know that people were doing it at a lower speed and/or putting their hand on the bottom for pressure. I cranked up the PC and my pad came flying off. Ended up in my neighbor's yard across the street and was doing about Mach 4 when it went over there. Pretty sure I heard the sound barrier break as it headed over there.