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Re: Pads failing too quickly...
IME the Compressors work well on a rotary but arent well suited to a DA. I recommend the Megs DA MF System for a DA. Get many more cutting pads than finishing. Better yet use a tangerine or crimson to finish.
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Re: Pads failing too quickly...
It is something you have to get use to. Using lots of pressure and high speeds can make the pads life a lot shorter. I also be careful washing my pads so the adhesives don't come off.
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Re: Pads failing too quickly...
I only use Lake Country Kompressor pads on my rotaries. They seem to be right at home there and do a decent job.
The other failures could be due to too much pressure causing them to overheat and separate.
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Re: Pads failing too quickly...
Ok... I'll give the kompressor a break because as you guys said it is for rotaries... but it just makes me mad to have another brand new pad failing....
I swear I try to make just enough pressure to make the pads rotating about 1-2 times per second... with these brand new white pads I even stayed below speed 5 on my GG ROP... I actually used speed 4 / 4.5 most of the time during this polishing job as I was only looking to enhance gloss and really not correcting anything...
Maybe this 1-2 times rotation per second rule doesn't apply to GG ROP and more like to a polisher like PC ? I feel GG ROP needs some good pressure to keep pads rotating only 1-2 times per second....
I mean... I thought I would be getting around 10 cars done with a set of pad when I first started buying detailing stuff.... and it just makes me very disappointed to make 1 or 2 cars with a set of pads....
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Is there any way you could have a friend make a video of your polishing technique? Maybe we can give you some pointers if we are able to see exactly what you're doing.
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Re: Pads failing too quickly...
Wouldn't a DA have to be spinning pretty fast to cause burn through like that? That doesn't look like something that would have happened too easily.
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Has to be to much pressure. Il admit I am kinda down on Lake Country these days, but they should not fail like that, that soon. Its either speed, pressure, or both. And you ruled out speed, so it must be pressure.
That, or you are the unluckiest guy ever, and all your pads have been bad batches...
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Re: Pads failing too quickly...
Originally Posted by onlycodered
Is there any way you could have a friend make a video of your polishing technique? Maybe we can give you some pointers if we are able to see exactly what you're doing.
I was actually thinking about that and it would be great, because I think it's the easiest way to find what I might be doing so wrong...
Originally Posted by RFulmer
Wouldn't a DA have to be spinning pretty fast to cause burn through like that? That doesn't look like something that would have happened too easily.
Actually I don't even think a DA can spin that fast to cause that, because as rotation gets higher it will also loose torque to be able to maintain it....
But here is what I think how it was possible...
I was polishing the lower side as the foam got apart from the velcro the outer edge opened like a mouth and actually the velcro made contact with it bitting the paint.... hell... I didn't even spent more than 2s on that spot... it was pretty fast... I was really surprised to see that... because I would never expect this kind of stuff from a white pad with PO85RD.
Originally Posted by tw33k2514
Has to be to much pressure. Il admit I am kinda down on Lake Country these days, but they should not fail like that, that soon. Its either speed, pressure, or both. And you ruled out speed, so it must be pressure.
That, or you are the unluckiest guy ever, and all your pads have been bad batches...
How long does your pads use to last ?
I also suspect about pressure... I think trying to get GG ROP to 1-2 rps is just not the right recommendation because it has almost the double of power and therefore, maybe, the double of torque from a porter cable for example.... which would require much less pressure to get a pad in that zone of rotation...
If you take a close look you'll realize that the pad's tears stops exactly where the backing plate ends.... I'm using a 5" backing plate...
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Re: Pads failing too quickly...
Ive used my current batch of flat pads on probably 9 or 10 cars, and they are holding up fine. Couple of the Orange pads have a little tearing on the edges, but I use my pads hard.
Lately though, I have switched almost exclusively to MF pads for correcting.
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