Oldie, but goodie pads....

[WRAPT C5Z06]

LC Hydrotech pads! Hadn't used my 5.5" cyan and tangerine pads for a while(until recently). Man, these are some great pads!! The perfect option for 1-steps from light to heavy polishing. The biggest benefit of these pads, to me, is the finishing ability!! Especially, the tangerine. This pad will finish EXCELLENT, including soft black paint. On medium to hard paint, the cyan pad will finish good, even with a compound. I'm not sure if these pads have been discontinued?

[BudgetPlan1]

Soft black paint, Crimson Hydrotech + Scholl S40 = very nice results.

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[Paul A.]

Thanks for the reminder, Wrapt. I have some that are collecting dust somewhere.

Because of the colors of the foam, I wrote short descriptors on the back of each one to help remind me of the cut characteristics. I tried them a few times and went back to my years old wool, orange, white, black mentality for all my LC pads.

I need to break these out again and give them another go...especially for the ubiquitous 1 steps i've been doing lately.

[WRAPT C5Z06]

Soft black paint, Crimson Hydrotech + Scholl S40 = very nice results.

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I'm very surprised how well the tangerine finishes, let alone the crimson!

[BudgetPlan1]

I'm very surprised how well the tangerine finishes, let alone the crimson!

And now that you've brought it up, methinks I need to order a set of 6.5" Crimson. Despite their reputation for occasional durability issues ('Hydro-shred') they just work so well with DAT liquids, liquids doesn't soak into pads as much.

They are fine items that I dont think of that often unless going for that little something extra.

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[SWETM]

Could it be that they where made for the use with water based polishes. That they shred when useing the oil based polishes. Would be interesting to test these Hydro-Tech pads with Sonax Cutmax and Sonax Cut and Finish and EX 04-06. Don't know if Perfect Finish is water based too. Would like to test any closed cell pads. And special the crimson HT pad and apply sealants and waxes and PA Viking Coat or Cosmic v2 with it. The close celled pads are soaking in less product. And with Sonax polishes you are already useing very little product. In that it seems to be a great choice to use Hydro-Tech pads with Sonax polishes.

[BudgetPlan1]

I think the shredding tag got applied with the blues when they first came out and mighta been rectified.

[dlc95]

I think the shredding tag got applied with the blues when they first came out and mighta been rectified.

Right.

The original blue pads had a more rigid, And larger cell structure, making it both very coarse, and sort of brittle.

The current version still cut great, but are a little more pliable.

[dlc95]

Heck yeah, Mark!

I still love these things too.

My findings are similar with the tangerine. In fact, my current avatar was polished using Menzerna PF2500 and the Tangerine Hydro.

They're still being made, and Buff and Shine has their Uro-Cell, closed cell pads available too.

Great pads for sure!

[SWETM]

They have made them thinner too not so long ago I think.