Melted / Seperated Backing Plate

[P1et]

I was detailing a Tahoe this morning. I was halfway through the detail and polishing with the PC on 6 with the 5.5" orange LC pad with SSR2.5. All of a sudden the pad starts smoking, turns out I melted the center of the pad and the center of the backing plate.

What on earth???

So I continue on with my business and all of a sudden yellow chuncks start flying all over the place. Turns out my backing plate started seperating.

Pics to come, but what on earth is going on???

[D]

Took this picture off AG's site. But you see those little rivets? Those things actually hit my counter weight on my PC. I have to use a spacer to give it enough room. So you might want to check that. This is on the 3.5" BP. Ive also had a BP separate, but no melting or anything.

[Gary Sword]

I have never had anything like that happen.

[FMINUS]

Make sure you have the little spacer washer on the PC.

[HighEndDetail]

I have never had anything like that happen.

Same here, I have been using the same backing plate since I have had my PC

[Al-53]

I have used backing plates for 6 years....and never melted one...

Some of the causes are a poor extension cord and the machine heats up and the heat transfers down the shaft..the other reason is excessive downward pressure..it bogs the machine and when it bogs it calls for more power causeing it to overheat...

I did a car a week ago and PC'd it for 5 hours and the machine never got hot..I use a 12 guage extensin cord contractor grade made for hi draw power tools...and I also have a Porter cable brand backing plate thats ventilated....and a 3M also...never melted a plate or pad....

Al

[2KLS1]

Couple of weeks ago I had the 3.5" backing plate come apart on me. The metal part with the rivets separated from the rest of the backing plated and flung my pad accross the garage. AG sent me out a new one so I'm good for now.

[joe.p]

I had my velcro fail once but never had an exp such as yours...Sorry

[dengood1]

I had the same thing happen last year with the same pad/backing plate combo. Have not had a problem since getting a new bp.

[supercharged]

I've melted my backing plate at speed 6 before too. One lesson I've learned - don't exceed speed 5, 5.5 in some cases no matter what. If you can't remove defects, step up to more agressive pad/polish combo.
Switch to Edge 2000 pads (like I did)
Good luck.