Be happy to...
The original article I wrote on
"How to clean your pad on the fly" was
targeted at cleaning pads one the fly while use a
Porter Cable DA style polisher, that would include,
- Porter Cable 7424XP and all Porter Cable variations of this model
- The Griot's Garage Random Orbital Polisher
- The Meguiar's G110v2 and all variations of this mode
It's also a way you can clean a foam pad on a rotary buffer but you want to be careful so you don't hurt yourself by getting your towel caught into the spinning pad and pulling your hand into the mix at the same time.
We'll shoot a video on both techniques tomorrow.
Correct.
You can't hold a towel against a foam pad on the Flex 3410 in the same way you would for a DA style polisher, it will simply be pulled out of your hand and flung into the air or onto the ground.
Lets go back and take a look at how we got to this point of the discussion on the topic of using the cleaning your pad on the fly technique in this thread...
07 z-oh-6 posted, (Note the part I made bold and blue
07 z-oh-6
didn't mention what type of polisher he was using. From the thread I think it became apparent he was referring to a Flex 3401.
Now lets go look at my original post to this thread, after the
blue clickable link, which I start all my article with so the title of the article can be quickly highlighted and copied and then pasted into any message on any forum on the Internet to link back to the article, (a speed and efficiency thing), the first sentence starts out...
Now I know that a segment of online enthusiasts will argue that a Flex 3401 is DA Polisher, that is a Dual Action Polisher and some will go on on rants about how it's one of the only true dual action polishers, in the context of this how-to article I was referring to the Porter Cable
"STYLE" of polishers and if you look down towards the end of my article, you'll see I even list most if not all the specific models this article applies too.
I actually never recommended the
"How to clean your pad on the fly technique" for other types of polishers. I know that in our society people are
"Scanners", I do my best to break up my text with plenty of white space, write short paragraphs not huge clumps of text and place bold headings on top of paragraphs that tell the reader what the rest of the text will be about but it's all to easy for people to scan and not read the entire article.
If you're using a Flex 2401 and you need a way to clean your pad as your work around the car there are some options.
- Turn the polisher off and scrape any built-up residue off using a nylon brush like a toothbrush
- Use a pad washer like the Grit Guard Universal Pad Washer
- Turn the polisher off and use a terry cloth towel bunched up in one hand and scrub any residue off.
- Switch to a clean, dry pad
- Remove your pad off the Flex and place it either on a DA Polisher or a Rotary Buffer to clean your pads using the the methods that work best with each of these tool.
The really cool feature about the Flex 3401, that is the FORCED ROTATION dual action motion of the buffing head which give it more power to remove defects than the Porter Cable style polisher but with less risk than a Rotary buffer also means that it doesn't work well for the
"Clean your pad on the Fly" technique.
And that's just how it is...
