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Lake Country 7.5 inch Hook & Loop DuroWool 100% Twisted Aggressive Wool Cutting Pad
Classification:Cutting Pad
Yarn: 100% Twisted Wool
Pile Length: One inch
Cut: Very Aggressive
Working Face of Pad Diameter: 7 1/2 inches
Tool: Rotary Buffer
Attachment: Hook & Loop Interface
Backing Plate Surface Diameter: 6 inches
Recommended Backing Plate Size: 6 inches
Purpose: Removing deep below surface paint defects. Removing sanding marks after wet-sanding.
Method of Cleaning: Spur or Pad Washer
Lake Country’s Wool Cutting Pad is made of 100% wool twisted into hundreds of individual strands. The tight twisting allows the pad to operate at a consistent level of aggressiveness for longer periods. The pad has a diameter of 7.5 inches but the thick pile gives it an overall diameter of 8 inches. The Wool Cutting Pad is intended for severe swirls, scratches and heavy oxidation.
On the Autogeek.net Store
Lake Country 7.5 inch Hook & Loop DuroWool 100% Twisted Aggressive Wool Cutting Pad
Part Number: #41-005
The working diameter = 7.5"
The Backing Plate Surface Diameter = inches with a little wiggle room
From edge to edge from the back side it 8" in diameter
This is what the twist looks like when a pad states it's a twisted wool pad. You can see groups of yarn fibers are twisted together with other groups of yarn fibers to created a single strand of twisted yarn fibers. This is the most aggressive design of yarn fibers and this makes for the most aggressive design of wool buffing pads.
Pile length for the Lake Country DuroWool 100% Twisted Aggressive Wool Cutting Pad is 1"
The outside edges are trimmed a little so that you don't have excessively long strands of fiber on the outside perimeter of the pad.
Buffing pads that use short length fibers are more aggressive than long length fibers because they won't lay over like a long fiber strand will. In the two pictures below I'm trying to pull on the fibers under my thumb to try to get them to lay flat but it's very difficult to do. The short length AND the dense fill means the fibers can' lay down because they are too stout and there's no wiggle room for they to lay down because they run into the fibers right next to them. It is this stoutness that also creates a very aggressive cutting pad.
Polishing pads on the other hand do not use a twisted yard and the pads are less dense and the yarns are much longer so they will lay-out or flatten out and this reduces their aggressiveness when it comes to cutting paint.
Backing plates come in all different sizes and designs. This is a Lake Country Backing plate with a centering hole in the middle of the face of the working side of the backing plate The hole is so you can insert an alignment dowel to help you align buffing pads onto the backing plate so they are centered and true.
Place the hole in the center of the buffing pad onto the dowel and then slide the buffing pad down the dowel till it attaches to the Velcro interface.
Then simply remove the dowel.
Just to note, there's no yarns in the center of the pad on purpose as yarns in the center tend to contribute to swirls.
Snug as a bug in rug and ready to place onto a rotary buffer. You can also attach the backing plate onto the rotary buffer first and then attach the pad.
Rotary buffers use a 5/8" diameter spindle with an 11 pitch thread. This is a industry standard so all rotary backing plates with 5/8 Inside Diameter threads will attach to 5/8" Outside Diameter spindles.
Backing plates are attached by spinning the backing plate onto the spindle in a clock direction as you're looking down on the face of the buffing pad and the rotary buffing is laing on it's backside.
Rotary buffers turn in a clockwise direction as you're looking down over the back of them and this acts to make sure the backing plate never loosens. Sometimes the backing plate can become attached very tightly and that's where the "Spindle Lock" comes in hand as you can depress the spindle lock button which will lock up the gears in the head of the buffer and allow you to loosen the pad and backing plate off the rotary buffer.
On the Autogeek.net Store
Lake Country 7.5 inch Hook & Loop DuroWool 100% Twisted Aggressive Wool Cutting Pad
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Classification:Cutting Pad
Yarn: 100% Twisted Wool
Pile Length: One inch
Cut: Very Aggressive
Working Face of Pad Diameter: 7 1/2 inches
Tool: Rotary Buffer
Attachment: Hook & Loop Interface
Backing Plate Surface Diameter: 6 inches
Recommended Backing Plate Size: 6 inches
Purpose: Removing deep below surface paint defects. Removing sanding marks after wet-sanding.
Method of Cleaning: Spur or Pad Washer
Lake Country’s Wool Cutting Pad is made of 100% wool twisted into hundreds of individual strands. The tight twisting allows the pad to operate at a consistent level of aggressiveness for longer periods. The pad has a diameter of 7.5 inches but the thick pile gives it an overall diameter of 8 inches. The Wool Cutting Pad is intended for severe swirls, scratches and heavy oxidation.
On the Autogeek.net Store
Lake Country 7.5 inch Hook & Loop DuroWool 100% Twisted Aggressive Wool Cutting Pad
Part Number: #41-005
The working diameter = 7.5"
The Backing Plate Surface Diameter = inches with a little wiggle room
From edge to edge from the back side it 8" in diameter
This is what the twist looks like when a pad states it's a twisted wool pad. You can see groups of yarn fibers are twisted together with other groups of yarn fibers to created a single strand of twisted yarn fibers. This is the most aggressive design of yarn fibers and this makes for the most aggressive design of wool buffing pads.
Pile length for the Lake Country DuroWool 100% Twisted Aggressive Wool Cutting Pad is 1"
The outside edges are trimmed a little so that you don't have excessively long strands of fiber on the outside perimeter of the pad.
Buffing pads that use short length fibers are more aggressive than long length fibers because they won't lay over like a long fiber strand will. In the two pictures below I'm trying to pull on the fibers under my thumb to try to get them to lay flat but it's very difficult to do. The short length AND the dense fill means the fibers can' lay down because they are too stout and there's no wiggle room for they to lay down because they run into the fibers right next to them. It is this stoutness that also creates a very aggressive cutting pad.
Polishing pads on the other hand do not use a twisted yard and the pads are less dense and the yarns are much longer so they will lay-out or flatten out and this reduces their aggressiveness when it comes to cutting paint.
Backing plates come in all different sizes and designs. This is a Lake Country Backing plate with a centering hole in the middle of the face of the working side of the backing plate The hole is so you can insert an alignment dowel to help you align buffing pads onto the backing plate so they are centered and true.
Place the hole in the center of the buffing pad onto the dowel and then slide the buffing pad down the dowel till it attaches to the Velcro interface.
Then simply remove the dowel.
Just to note, there's no yarns in the center of the pad on purpose as yarns in the center tend to contribute to swirls.
Snug as a bug in rug and ready to place onto a rotary buffer. You can also attach the backing plate onto the rotary buffer first and then attach the pad.
Rotary buffers use a 5/8" diameter spindle with an 11 pitch thread. This is a industry standard so all rotary backing plates with 5/8 Inside Diameter threads will attach to 5/8" Outside Diameter spindles.
Backing plates are attached by spinning the backing plate onto the spindle in a clock direction as you're looking down on the face of the buffing pad and the rotary buffing is laing on it's backside.
Rotary buffers turn in a clockwise direction as you're looking down over the back of them and this acts to make sure the backing plate never loosens. Sometimes the backing plate can become attached very tightly and that's where the "Spindle Lock" comes in hand as you can depress the spindle lock button which will lock up the gears in the head of the buffer and allow you to loosen the pad and backing plate off the rotary buffer.
On the Autogeek.net Store
Lake Country 7.5 inch Hook & Loop DuroWool 100% Twisted Aggressive Wool Cutting Pad
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