Recent content by tedkj

Just wanted to chime in and say that all plastics are not made equal. I've had success with M105/M101 and a MF or Wool pad (even straight foam) on some plastic lenses, while others truly required 500 grit paper for anything to happen at a worthwhile speed.

I see some people ditched Hybrids and went back to Hydro-Techs, even with oil-containing polished and compounds. I'm very pleased with the orange pad tho. It provides excellent cut with Uber Compound and M101, tho with significant marring with both. I just did another 4 hours of cutting with the...

So I stocked up on the 6.5" Hybrid Power Finish pads from LC since they fit the original 5.5" Flex backing plate perfectly, and picked up a couple gallons of the new Wolfgang Uber Compound. First issue when I checked the markings on the plastic bag containing the pad. The yellow pad says...

Yes - you're quite correct. They only fit one way, I swapped thin/thick in my previous post by mistake. :)

Yeah, the replacement I got from Autogeek failed on me 10 minutes ago. It broke right off where the 6" velcro plate attaches to the gear backing plate. I used the thin shim between the velcro plate and gear plate, and the thick shim between the gear plate and the machine - which I assume would...