Efficiency of 5" pads versus 5 1/2" pads

[FUNX650]

Besides what appears to be solely the (albeit an important) difference between two different-sized pad's total available surface area, that could be used for the buffing cycle...
What else can effect a pad's efficiency?

Just a thought:
Would not the attainment of the greatest:
Net available pad surface area, during the buffing cycle, be just as an important of a factor?

If so:
How can this be attained?
Your ideas/thoughts will be most appreciated.


Bob

[SR99]

Since it's the abrasive particles that are doing the majority of the abrading, maybe the abrading efficiency is more about the pad's ability to act as a reservoir for fresh abrasive as it orbits/rotates?

Taking that to an extreme, would a fully primed 5" microfiber pad and Megs D300 be more efficient (i.e. finish the correction faster) than a fully primed 7" polishing pad with fine, tiny foam cells and also using D300, even though the 7" pad has nearly 100% more surface area? I would assume so but have never done that comparison.

[FUNX650]

Since it's the abrasive particles that are doing the majority of the abrading, maybe the abrading efficiency is more about the pad's ability to act as a reservoir for fresh abrasive as it orbits/rotates?

Taking that to an extreme, would a fully primed 5" microfiber pad and Megs D300 be more efficient (i.e. finish the correction faster) than a fully primed 7" polishing pad with fine, tiny foam cells and also using D300, even though the 7" pad has nearly 100% more surface area? I would assume so but have never done that comparison.

What's the effective surface area of the wall thickness, of the 7" pad's tiny foam cells (pores), during the buffing cycle?

Bob

[allenk4]

What is your definition of: "Net available pad surface area, during the buffing cycle"

[FUNX650]

What is your definition of: "Net available pad surface area, during the buffing cycle"

Glad you asked!

Basically it's:
"The totaled-amount, of all the wall thicknesses of a foam pad's pores/cells;
and any stressors, they may incur, during a buffing cycle".

-Hope you are able to implement this definition towards answering the questions contained in Post#11.

Bob

[allenk4]

Glad you asked!

Basically it's:
"The totaled-amount, of all the wall thicknesses of a foam pad's pores/cells;
and any stressors, they may incur, during a buffing cycle".

-Hope you are able to implement this definition towards answering the questions contained in Post#11.

Bob

Assuming all things ceteris paribus, between the different sized pads.

[FUNX650]

Assuming all things ceteris paribus, between the different sized pads.

Sure...
But here's the deal:

-As long as any objections, such as an Humean-accounting of causation:

TO WIT:
"An object precedent and contiguous to another, and where all the objects resembling the former are placed in like relations of precedency and contiguity to those objects that resemble the latter".

And/or:
The existence of any other tendencies...

-Is not denied.


Bob

[allenk4]

Sure...
But here's the deal:

-As long as any objections, such as an Humean-accounting of causation:

TO WIT:
"An object precedent and contiguous to another, and where all the objects resembling the former are placed in like relations of precedency and contiguity to those objects that resemble the latter".

And/or:
The existence of any other tendencies...

-Is not denied.


Bob

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[FUNX650]

Assuming all things ceteris paribus, between the different sized pads.

Thread Killer

Bob

[allenk4]

I was forced to use a 6 1/2" Yellow Lake Country CCS Pad last week as my Orange CCS was not getting it done and I didn't have Yellow in 5 1/2"

Made me contemplate going back to larger pads on my Flex 3401

I only had a couple of spots where I needed a smaller pad and the big pad, cut just as well and covered ground a lot faster. Pretty sure it was not 40% faster as the increased surface area would suggest, but still faster

I am ordering the LC Hybrid Wool in 6 1/2" soon