Lake Country 4 in spot buff yellow pad disentergrated

[Reactor]

Don't know if this is the spot for this, but I recently bought an order of varying products, one of which was a Lake country 4 inch spot buff yellow pad. I was excited to add the 4 inch pads to my collection. So I pulled it out and decided to give it a try. I do one section pass and notice that the center of the pad had puffed up a lot, wait a couple minutes and do another couple section passes and notice the center has been puffed up the entire time. On the 4th section pass (and 4th ever pass with this product) it literally starts to disentegrate, the foam starts to shoot out so I stop and notice the pad is losing material from where it was all puffed up in the middle. This pad had less than 20 minutes of use!

1-is this just a defective pad?
2-is there anything I could have done to cause this?
3-are the 4 inch pads known for this?

Thanks,
Richard

[dpk20x]

What speed were you using?

[Reactor]

4 on a Porter Cable xp

[dpk20x]

Hmmm speed 4 isn't too bad.

I had the same thing happen to me when I first started using the 4" hydrotech pads. But I was using speed 5 on the GG6.

I use speed 3.5 now with spot pads and haven't had any issues since.

Doesn't sound like you were using too much power though so I guess I'm out of ideas.

[Reactor]

Thanks for the response. It was weird that after just 1 pass that the center puffed up and that is where the pad had failed. The outer edges are fine but the foam in the middle is done.

[BillE]

Really sounds like a defective pad. Especially after only 4 passes.

Did you purchase it from AG? If so, give 'customer service'. They should be able to help ya out.

Bill

[Setec Astronomy]

What product were you using? Sounds like you simply overheated the pad. Too much product, to much pressure will do that. Be careful you don't overheat the paint as well, especially if you're on a non-metallic substrate.

[Reactor]

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I was using menerza pg1000. I always use my pad brush to knock off excess between passes since it's only a 4 inch pad I use 2 smaller sized drops of product for passes. I have not contacted customer service at all yet.

[BillE]

I think the use of a 'pad brush' may be the culprit here. Try 'cleaning on the fly.' That is a pretty safe to keep the build-up under control.

Bill

[Reactor]

The foam pad brush is the one sold here on autogeek for this purpose and the same one that Mike Phillips uses in videos. I also use it on all my pads with no issues.