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Re: 5.5" SUPER THIN FOAM PAD OPTIONS for your Dual Action Polisher
Originally Posted by VISITOR
also, the buff and shine 5.5" flat pads (built very well too) work great with the GG6 as well...
I've been using the B&S 5.5" pads with my GG6 for five years and never have had a pad fail.
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Re: 5.5" SUPER THIN FOAM PAD OPTIONS for your Dual Action Polisher
Originally Posted by WRAPT C5Z06
I think the thicker pads, like the Rupes and Uro-Tec work much better on long throw polishers.
Actually, I asked Marco D'Inca the engineer behind the RUPES BigFoot polishers when I first met him at SEMA back in 2013,
Why are the RUPES foam pads so thick?
I explained to him that thin pads rotate and oscillate better on free spinning tools. He didn't disagree with me on my point but instead said, and this is a paraphrase,
"The RUPES foam pads are designed to work with the RUPES backing plates and RUPES tools to eliminate vibration"
On this forum and in my 3-day classes I show people the "Air Test". I've seen Todd Helme use this in his power point presentations. What you do is place a RUPES pad on a RUPES tools and turn the tool on to the 6 speed setting and hold the tool in the air. There's simply no vibration in the tool body, it's as smooth as can be. Now take the pad OFF the backing plate and do the same test and you'll feel all kinds of vibrations in the tool body. This is because RUPES isn't a tool it's a system. The pads are engineered to work with the backing plates and the drive mechanisms. The backing plates are engineered to work with their pads and their tools and their tools are engineered to work with their backing plates and their pads. It's a system and the pads are the size, shape, thickness and weight by design.
If you attach a thin foam pad to a RUPES polisher and set the speed to 6 and then hold it in the air you're going to feel vibration because Marco and team didn't engineer their system for thin foam pads but thick foam pads.
In my mind a thin foam pad with less mass will rotate better on any free spinning orbital tool but with the RUPES tool while they might rotate better you're going to feel vibration.
Originally Posted by WRAPT C5Z06
I think the thicker pads, like the Rupes and Uro-Tec work much better on long throw polishers.
So it could be that's why you "think" thicker pads work better on RUPES tools Mark it's because they were engineered that way.
For what it's worth... I cover this in my RUPES how to book in-depth like my normal writing style.
On Autogeek.com
How to use the RUPES BigFoot Paint Polishing System
for Production Detailing and Show Car Detailing
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Re: 5.5" SUPER THIN FOAM PAD OPTIONS for your Dual Action Polisher
I wonder if the Griot's 5.5" pads have any significant impact with correction performance (good or bad) because of the cutout in the middle. I would assume that less rotational mass, and surface area would in theory allow the pads to correct a little faster and keep the contact surface cooler, but how much of that would translate into measurable time savings during a correction?
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Re: 5.5" SUPER THIN FOAM PAD OPTIONS for your Dual Action Polisher
Originally Posted by natewood70
I wonder if the Griot's 5.5" pads have any significant impact with correction performance (good or bad) because of the cutout in the middle.
I would assume that less rotational mass, and surface area would in theory allow the pads to correct a little faster and keep the contact surface cooler, but how much of that would translate into measurable time savings during a correction?
I don't think you will see a huge difference in the time spent buffing out a car due to the hole in the center.
I believe or think the hole in the center of buffing pads either has to do with alignment using a dowel or in the case of these Griot's pads it is to reduce and prevent swirls and heat build-up.
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Re: 5.5" SUPER THIN FOAM PAD OPTIONS for your Dual Action Polisher
Thanks for the reply, Mike.
In my personal experience, thicker foams like the Rupes and Uro-Tec pads rotate better on a long throw orbital. I feel the also contour better as there's more cushion to allow that. Again, just my experience.
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Re: 5.5" SUPER THIN FOAM PAD OPTIONS for your Dual Action Polisher
Originally Posted by WRAPT C5Z06
Thanks for the reply, Mike.
In my personal experience, thicker foams like the Rupes and Uro-Tec pads rotate better on a long throw orbital.
Could be with the long stroke tools that mass works for you not against you.
Originally Posted by WRAPT C5Z06
I feel the also contour better as there's more cushion to allow that. Again, just my experience.
That's true. A thick foam pad has more mass to flex and thus contour.
Kind of like when you're machine sanding. If you want to only focus on the tops of the hills when removing orange peel you use a sanding disc not a foam backed sanding disc because the foam backing will tend to remove paint of of both the hills and the valleys since it will conform.
I personally prefer thicker pads on direct drive tools and share that in my FLEX how-to book. The only time thin foam pads seem to be advantageous is when working with the entry level, simple dual action polishers like the Porter Cable style.
I have another article I'm working on called,
5.5" THIN FOAM PAD OPTIONS for your Dual Action Polisher
Note I leave out the word
SUPER
In the title of this next article. For example B&S have some thin 5.5" foam pads but they are not SUPER thin.
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Re: 5.5" SUPER THIN FOAM PAD OPTIONS for your Dual Action Polisher
Thanks Mike, you are great!
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Re: 5.5" SUPER THIN FOAM PAD OPTIONS for your Dual Action Polisher
I have a couple questions about these pads when being used on a "basic" DA polisher:
How do these pad handle heat? Do you have to swap them out sooner than you would a thicker pad?
Do these pad become saturated faster since there is far less pad material to absorb product, or do you use a little less product?
I like the idea of the thinner pads. As my skills improve, I'm becoming much more aware of my "pad discipline" and would like to know how I'd adjust for these thinner pads.
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Re: 5.5" SUPER THIN FOAM PAD OPTIONS for your Dual Action Polisher
Great questions, thank you for asking. Let me take a stab at them.
Originally Posted by Desertnate
I have a couple questions about these pads when being used on a "basic" DA polisher:
How do these pad handle heat? Do you have to swap them out sooner than you would a thicker pad?
I'd say they handle heat the same most other foam pads handle it and that is they don't like it. NO pad like heat and for the recored clearcoat paints don't like heat.
As for swapping pads out, in a PERFECT WORLD you would use one pad per panel and on really large panels you would use two pads. By swapping out pads after each panel you won't wear out the pad and this means you'll get more use out of it overall. People that try to buff out cars using only one or two pads for each process, that is one or two pads for the compounding step and one or two pads for the polishing step, find out the hard way that not only do they wear out their pads fast but it will take them more time to do the job and as the pads become wet they don't work as well so they are less effective at the process no matter how great they may be at using a buffer.
For anyone NEW to machine polishing, (not you Desertnate), see this article and note that my recommendations in the article are MINIMUMS - Let your budget be your guide.
How many pads do I need to buff out my car?
Originally Posted by Desertnate
Do these pad become saturated faster since there is far less pad material to absorb product, or do you use a little less product?
The pads will saturate at the same rate as a thick foam pad, by this I mean that the liquid in the product you're using will seep into a thin foam pad at the same rate liquid will seep into a thick foam pad. The difference is more about that with a thin foam pad there's less foam or less mass to hold liquid so they will fill up with liquid or become saturated faster. There's actually a difference between the rate liquid will penetrate into foam and the volume of liquid pads of different thicknesses will hold.
Here's the part that matters to you... because a thin foam pad has less mass and thus will not hold as much liquid, even if the pads become saturated they will still rotate and oscillate really well. That said, you should still swap out pads as often as your budge will allow because using a pad after it's fully saturated with liquid, (a normal characteristic of foam pads), will cause a heat issue since liquids or specifically, wet foam will hold heat better than dry foam.
This in my mind could be one benefit to the Griot's pads since the majority of heat created on a simple or entry level dual action polisher like I show in this article is at the CENTER of the backing plate. Remove the foam from the center of the pad and there's no contact between the foam and the backing plate. I want to say... genius! But I'm not an engineer or a chemist.
Originally Posted by Desertnate
I like the idea of the thinner pads. As my skills improve, I'm becoming much more aware of my "pad discipline" and would like to know how I'd adjust for these thinner pads.
You would instantly see better pad rotation. You still have to hold the polisher in a way that the pads remain flat to the surface but overall there's much better pad rotation and oscillation.
When we removed the water spots out of the paint on this 1955 Chevy Bel Air just a few weeks ago, I found out the paint was on the hard side. In order to completely remove the water spot etchings or IMPRINT RINGS we had to use the Lake Country GRAY foam ThinPro pads. These pads are very hard and the foam is dense and sharp and it is these characteristics that make it cut like a son-of-a-gun.
Together with the McKee's Fast Compound the water etchings were completely removed.
1955 Chevy Bel Air with a $15,000.00 Custom Paint Job - How to remove water spots
Imprint Rings - Water spots that have left an etching IN the paint at the perimeter of where water pooled.
Jay and Guy buffing the hood with Porter Cable 7424XP orbital polishers with the Lake Country Gray ThinPro foam cutting pads.
Here's what competition ready looks like...
The fully documented write-up for the process used on this 1955 Chevy can be found here,
1955 Chevy Bel Air with a $15,000.00 Custom Paint Job - How to remove water spots
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