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LC 3.5" backing plate
Was polishing my headlights today with a 3.5" backing plate and ccs 4" pads. About 5 mins into polishing the backing plate went flying. The rubber plate just tore away from the metal part. Got a nice ding in my headlight. Lucky I wasn't polishing my paint. Anyone had this experience? Guess I need the rotary type BP with an adapter.
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Re: LC 3.5" backing plate
Hey Surfer, I've heard of pads flying off but not the BP. I have done the same thing though using a 3.5 BP with 4 " pads for headlights. I think except for when we need to dry a pad out, just get used to not ramping up the speed without the pad on a surface......or torque it down a little tighter next time?
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Re: LC 3.5" backing plate
I was polishing on speed 6 when it went flying! I heard of this happening to someone with LC bp, but I never paid much attention as I thought it was user error.
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Re: LC 3.5" backing plate
It happened to me when I was using the 4" backing plate from the glass polishing kit. The plate has some kind of EVA material sandwiched between the plastic plate and the velcro. I was using it with 4" white pad, but I got careless at one point and lifted the pad up while the PC was still at full speed. The EVA just tore of the plate and went flying off along with the pad. Luckily, it just hit the wall and not my cars. I glued the pieces back together, but, needless to say, I won't be using it with pads other than the glass polishing ones again!
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Re: LC 3.5" backing plate
Does it look like this:
Last edited by Rsurfer; 05-10-2009 at 09:32 PM.
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Re: LC 3.5" backing plate
No. It looks like the pad in this:
Professional Glass Polishing System
It did do the same thing as yours though. I bought the 3.5" like yours afterwards. Hope mine doesn't end up like yours.
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Re: LC 3.5" backing plate
Geeez. That looks like it could have been a lot worse. You gotta feel a little lucky on this one, huh "R"? I'll bet you get the backing plate replaced.
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Re: LC 3.5" backing plate
Send it in for a new one. Call LC and tell them to replace what was damaged. See if they stand behind their products.
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Re: LC 3.5" backing plate
Originally Posted by loudog2
Send it in for a new one. Call LC and tell them to replace what was damaged. See if they stand behind their products.
If you read AG discription on the LC backing plate it sounds like it was made for the high end cars. Even if they replaced it, I wouldn't use it. Not worth the chance that next time it could damage my paint or worse, get someone hurt.
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Re: LC 3.5" backing plate
Originally Posted by Jimmie
Geeez. That looks like it could have been a lot worse. You gotta feel a little lucky on this one, huh "R"? I'll bet you get the backing plate replaced.
Yeah Jimmie, guess I'll be looking at a rotary bp with an adapter.
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