In the market for new woolies

[luckydawg]

Time to get some new wool pads and am looking to solicit suggestions from folks that are happy with their wool pads

I am using a 6.5" backing plate on the Flex rotary

Thanks

[rlmccarty2000]

I really like the new Rupes wool pads and they should work great with the Flex.

[luckydawg]

This one?
RUPES Twisted Natural Wool Pad - 6.5 Inch

Or this one?
7 inch RUPES Coarse Wool Polishing Pad

[luckydawg]

anyone else??

[Rsurfer]

anyone else??

Thought woolies were for wheels?

[luckydawg]

Thought woolies were for wheels?

You cant be serious

[PaulMys]

You cant be serious

I actually thought the same by the thread title.

I was thinking "Wheel Woolies".

[Rsurfer]

You cant be serious

Ever heard of Wheel Woolies for wheels? Never heard of a wool pad or hybrid called a Woolie. Look at your links, no mention of Woolies. Now search for wheel woolie.

[Mike Phillips]

anyone else??

I have not used the new RUPES wool pads yet.

I looked at them at the RUPES booth at SEMA and they looked to be the "normal" high quality product you expect from RUPES. Jason Rose told me they are just a "me-too" product and they are BUT - I like a GOOD traditional wool pad for heavy cutting with a rotary buffer.

There's a lot of improved wool and microfiber pads for use with orbitals and rotary buffers that cut well and finish better than this traditional type of wool pad but I look at the buffing process differently than most enthusiasts and I'd even say most pros.

What I see now days is a LOT of pros thinking they need a hi-tech pad to cut "good" and finish out great. Nothing wrong with this but here's how I look at it. If I NEED to really CUT - then I want to get in and do it fast and get it over with. AND afterwards - I'M GOING TO DO A FOLLOW-UP STEP ANYWAYS so I don't care if the fibers of a traditional wool pad don't finish out as nice as the fibers of some hi-tech fiber pad because,

A: I only cut with great abrasive technology. This means the depth of the holograms I'm putting into the paint is more from the fibers and my downward pressure (and pad angle), than it is from the abrasives I'm using and these holograms in context are going to be shallow and easily removed.

B: Because I'm going to do a second polishing step also with great abrasive technology and some form and brand of FOAM pad - with it's uniform surface texture - I'm going to remove any holograms from the first step so I care less about the finish I leave in the first step as I tend to care more about speed and effectiveness.



And for anyone reading this that has NOT done a log of heavy cutting over the decades using wool pads on rotary buffers, I'm here to tell you, there is a benefit to a traditional wool pad on a rotary buffer to not only buff out the easy-to-buff flat panes but for pushing into the tight areas and more complex areas to simply get the job over.


And of course, it kind of goes without saying, skillful use with a rotary buffer and a traditional wool pad takes experience and you only get this kind of experience by doing it a LOT.



So yeah- get the new RUPES pads. I'm looking forward to the smaller 6.5" pad for my Cordless FLEX PE14 and the medium size 7" pad for the corded version of the PE14

[Mike Phillips]

Oh yeah....

Even though I've been working and typing on vBulletin discussion forums since they were invented, (about the year 2000 and going commercial in 2002, I have an article on this), I rarely look at the name of the forum group or sub-group a thread is posted in.

I scan the forum homepage and all threads are listed under,

Recent Threads


You have to actually "look" at the top of the page of the thread to see what group or sub-group the thread is in and that's usually and "after thought" for me. Mostly because I'm busy, usually multi-tasking and typing on-the-fly.