I'll be into the office after lunch to shoot the Live Broadcast video with Yancy and can check.
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Sorry, I forgot to walk out and look at the shelves....
BUT - See what Sizzle Chet posted here just yesterday, April 14th, 2020
https://www.autogeekonline.net/forum...t=#post1671562
Or call Customer Care, I'm sure they can find the answer.
1-800-869-3011
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From time to time I see someone ask,
1: Does the felt ring on the Supa BEAST need to be lubricated?
2: Will the BEAST backing plate fit on the Supa BEAST or the CBEAST?
The answer is no to both questions. The Supa BEAST and the CBEAST use a totally different design that enables the tool to run,
Cooler
Smoother
Quieter
And weigh less
See my article from 2011 on this topic as you can see by the pictures, the innards in the BEAST look nothing like the innards of the Supa BEAST or the CBEAST.
Lubricating the Felt Ring on the Flex 3401
http://www.autogeekonline.net/galler...3401Flex06.jpg
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I wish I had gotten one of these instead of my G9, way outta my price range though (literally 3x the price of a G9 up here ) :(
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Here's an updated article with my personal pad recommendations for any of the BEAST family of tools with the larger backing plate.
Mike Phillips recommended foam pads for the FLEX Family of BEAST 8mm Gear-Driven Orbital Polishers
Foam pad options...
http://www.autogeekonline.net/galler...T_pads_001.JPG
Microfiber pad options...
http://www.autogeekonline.net/galler...ishing_001.JPG
More info in the actual article here,
Mike Phillips recommended foam pads for the FLEX Family of BEAST 8mm Gear-Driven Orbital Polishers
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Out of these pads, do you prefer one or the other cutting, polishing, or finishing pad over the other?
Yes. Whenever I can use foam and it makes sense, I prefer foam. Sometimes fiber makes more sense for speed and efficiency because fibers are a form of abrasive.
Fiber pads are like a coin. A coin has two sides.
1: One side of the Fiber Coin is it cuts faster because fibers are a form of abrasive.
2: The other side of the Fiber Coin is because fibers are a form of abrasive - they can leave a CUT in the paint when you've finished buffing. When using any brand or type of orbital polisher this is called micro-marring. When using a rotary polisher this is called holograms.
Here's something I wrote years ago,
Generally speaking, a foam pad will finish out nicer more consistently over a wide spectrum of paint systems -Mike Phillips
So if I can cut with a foam pad and get the defect removal results I'm looking for on any given project I'll choose foam. Sometimes I can finish with this same foam pad and sometimes I have to re-polish, depends on the paint. But if I end up having to do a 2-step process, by starting with foam the polishing will be faster and easier as it won't have the depth of cut that a fiber pad will leave if a fiber pad is used first.
The above is generalities as paint hardness and/or paint softness is the huge unknown variable.
Or as Jason Rose likes to say,
Topcoat hardness is the unknown variable.
Hope that helps...
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