Pad gumbo

[Mike Honcho]

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[Eldorado2k]

Brand new?

[Mike Honcho]

First time used pads. Smorgasbord of products. FG400, Poxy, Speed and WDGPS simmering in Snappy Pad Cleaner.

[Eldorado2k]

On 1 car? Lets see the results😃

[Mike Honcho]

Two cars. Hard as a rock Ford Explorer and soft as butter Lexus.

[dlc95]

FG400 on those Cyan Hydrotech pads is fantastic. How dirty were they before putting them in the cleaner?

[Mike Phillips]

Those look like Hydro-Tech pads.
(closed cell pads)

If so they are a tick harder to clean than open cell foam pads.


Do some squishing with you hands to flush the cleaning solution in and out of the foam and thus flush the chemicals in and out of the pads.


:)

[Mike Honcho]

Good observation, grasshoppers! They are HT pads. They did get pretty dirty. (Not so much the 2 red pads, they only had Poxy and WDGPS on them.) I filled the bucket up with hot water and a packet of Snappy Pad Cleaner. Gonna let them marinate a little longer and "squish" the pads to really get the cleaner in them. Rinse, then fold them in a terry beach towel and wring out like Mike showed in a previous post about 5 years ago.

[Mike Honcho]

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/how-articles/26512-how-dry-foam-pad-after-hand-washing.html

[choijw2]

urgg, I don't think i can wash pads like that anymore.

after washing pads with hands for few times, velcro start winkinling, some older ones lifting.

I need to invest in pad washer :/

[ski2]

then fold them in a terry beach towel and wring out

Mike--rather than wring them out I've been putting them between multiple folds of a terry towel on the floor then stand on each pad. Really gets them dry and avoids any twisting of the pad/Velcro.

[Mike Honcho]

Good idea! Since I've had a few glasses of sangria this might make for a good YouTube video.

<Our opening story tonight on 11Alive News...drunk guy falls off pile of pads while drying them...>