Cleaning Pads during a Detail.

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What is your technique when your pad gets too dirty to continue on the same detail?
If anyone cleans and keeps the same pad in play, how do you do it?
 
I spray them with xmt pad cleaner, and just rinse them with the hose. Put them on the machine, and spin them to they are dry ;)
 
Clean with Dawn and warm water, spin dry on PC. Then back to work.

You have to make sure is 100% dry though.
 
Before I start detailing a mix up a bucket of pad soap & water. When a pad gets dirty I just throw it in and get a different pad. When I done with the detail I wash out all the pads.
 
Just FYI,

Before all you people that have never tried it before go out and start spinning your pads on a machine to dry them, make sure it is on a lower setting or else the pad is going to fly off and chop your nose off, put your eye out or kill your dog. So be careful when free spinning a pad on a machine because it can fly off at a rapid speed. I've seen it happen.

(That is mostly for the hook and loop pad users. I don't see the edge type system pads having this problem.)
 
67Customs said:
Just FYI,

Before all you people that have never tried it before go out and start spinning your pads on a machine to dry them, make sure it is on a lower setting or else the pad is going to fly off and chop your nose off, put your eye out or kill your dog. So be careful when free spinning a pad on a machine because it can fly off at a rapid speed. I've seen it happen.

(That is mostly for the hook and loop pad users. I don't see the edge type system pads having this problem.)
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Good point. I keep pressure on the bottom of the pad with my other hand so this doesnt happen.

Pretty sure Jimmie is used the Edge system though.
 
Pad brush and the rotary at like 2000-2200 rpm.

I usually don't detail enough during the one day to need all my pads, so if working with the PC and they get clogged, I'll through them on the rotary and brush them, or just grap another one and stick it on the PC.
 
I spur my foam pads with an old tooth brush after every panel. Once they get to caked that the spur isnt working anymore i wash them out with XMT pad cleaner, rinse, put them back on the machine and spin all the water out. Then i get back to work, its ok if the pad is still a little damp, wont effect anything.

Since i use the edge2K system on my rotary i rarily have to do this and i have multiple pads for my PC.
 
pirex said:
I spray them with xmt pad cleaner, and just rinse them with the hose. Put them on the machine, and spin them to they are dry ;)
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I do the same even though I have enough pads just to switch in the middle of a detail. I just hate having to clean all of them at the end of the day, so I clean it as I work.
 
blkexcoupe said:
I do the same even though I have enough pads just to switch in the middle of a detail. I just hate having to clean all of them at the end of the day, so I clean it as I work.
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That funny, I hate to stop detailing to clean pads. After soaking the clean up real easy at the end of a detail.
 
Gary Sword said:
That funny, I hate to stop detailing to clean pads. After soaking the clean up real easy at the end of a detail.
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In the middle of the detail it's only 1 pad to clean, but at the end of the day it could be a small bucket full sometimes. Also stopping to clean the pads means a break from that UDM/PC vibration. :p
 
Like Gary, I just toss them in a bucket with pad cleaner and put a fresh one on.
 
Personally, I wash the pad out quickly with some Wolfgang pad cleaner. Then I spin them dry or blot them dry, then back to work!
 
Since I have so many pads that I've ordered. I use a new pad for every panel.

A cleaner pad has faster cutting ability. So I use it, set it aside and then clean it at night; since I only used it once, there's barely any residue on it anyways so it comes clean really easy.:awesome:
 
I have number of pads at hand, I just slap new one on, I clean them later, time is money.
 
67Customs said:
Just FYI,

Before all you people that have never tried it before go out and start spinning your pads on a machine to dry them, make sure it is on a lower setting or else the pad is going to fly off and chop your nose off, put your eye out or kill your dog. So be careful when free spinning a pad on a machine because it can fly off at a rapid speed. I've seen it happen.

(That is mostly for the hook and loop pad users. I don't see the edge type system pads having this problem.)
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Yeah first time I dried mine this way I didn't know that people were doing it at a lower speed and/or putting their hand on the bottom for pressure. I cranked up the PC and my pad came flying off. Ended up in my neighbor's yard across the street and was doing about Mach 4 when it went over there. Pretty sure I heard the sound barrier break as it headed over there.
 
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