How do you wash your pads?

[weavers]

In my experience dawn dish soap works the best. Add a drop or two, some water and a soft-medium bristle and scrub. The more suds there are the better it cleans. Takes several minutes and I'm looking for a better way.

I've tried soak pads in dawn dish soap or apc and it doesn't seem to help much. Even soaking for hours it takes the same amount of time to clean.

To dry I them I squeze out the water by hand. I use to fold them in half, but CCS pads seems to seprate from the velcro easily and folding them or removing from the backplate rips them. So I squeeze by hand and let it dry or get the polisher out and put on speed 1 and work up to speed 3-4.

I'll try the IPA, or soak in apc, and a degreaser. Thing is that I wash the pad indoors and all of the car stuff is outside.

[JCturboT]

Typically I use Dawn diswashing soap for for my typical polish/wax, but, for my "heavy-duty" jobs or to clean a really durable sealant (FK1000P) I use this-
Dawn Power Dissolver

Really makes clean-up a snap.
Just make sure to rinse the pads well when done.

Jeff

[2old2change]

I use the kitchen sink and dawn. I've been known to use a little folex and vinegar on stubborn stains.

[James K]

I spray them down with pad cleaner, let it soak in for about 5-10 minutes, then throw them in a 5 gallon bucket of warm water. Once I am done with the car, I use Dawn and hand wash them. Let the air dry. Does not take long at all.

[93fox]

For most of you that use dawn is there a specific dawn soap you guys use or any dawn will do the job?

[kronos]

I like to have a small bucket of snappy clean solution set aside while buffing cars. Every two panels I change pads and the used pad goes straight into the solution. It makes for easy clean-up.