Video: Tip for cleaning pads in a pad washer

[Mike Phillips]

Video: Tip for cleaning pads in a pad washer

I took this picture some time ago to show how you can use an adapter or extension on a rotary buffer to make cleaning a pad easier when cleaning pads in a pad washer.




How it works
When using the Grit Guard Universal Pad Washer, the correct technique is to pump the pad up and down against the Grit Gard Insert as this causes the spring loaded water pumps to pump or inject water and/or water and cleaning solution into the face of the pad.

By using an extension you make it easier to pump or move the rotary buffer up and down inside the pad washer without the body of the rotary buffer bumping into the Splash Guard Lid.





This video uses a when cleaning a pad but it shows and explains how the water pumps work and how to pump any polisher up and down against the Grit Guard Insert inside the pad washer.


How to use a Grit Guard Universal Pad Washer




On Autogeek.net

Lake Country Double-Sided Pad Rotary Buffer Adapter



Optimum Double-Sided Pad Rotary Buffer Adapter

[Jomax]

great vid as usual Mike

[BobbyG]

Someone's been looking in my box of accessories again!!

This is truly a great tip for the rotary users and I need to devise something similar for the dual action community....Trust me, I have a concept already sketched up....

[Mike Phillips]

This is truly a great tip for the rotary users and I need to devise something similar for the dual action community....Trust me, I have a concept already sketched up....

Someone e-mailed me in the last day or two or PM'd me asking if there was an extension for the DA Polisher like there is for the Rotary Buffer?

I said not that I'm aware and that adding a long extension to a DA Polisher might really stress the bearings due to lateral leverage. If it were only used to help clean pads it would probably be okay but if a person tries to start doing Surgical Buffing with an extension between the spindle and the backing plate I think somethings going to give...

[Mike Phillips]

***Update***


Links to both the Optimum and Lake Country Rotary Buffer Extensions added to first post of this article for anyone looking for an extension for either double sided wool pads or Surgical Buffing.


Surgical Buffing

Edging - Buffing the paint around edges

Trend: Backing Plate Extensions for Surgical Precision Buffing


See the adapter used as an extension in this commercial for Lake Country Buffing Pads.


[CENTER]Lake Country Buffing Pads Commercial
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