Motor Guard SD-1 Spin Doctor Buffing Pad Cleaner

[Mike@DistinctImage]

Hi everyone

Just wanted to know if anyone has ever used this tool?

Motor-Guard-SD-1-Buffing-Cleaner

If anyone has any experience with it, I'd love to know what you think about it and how you rate its performance.

Thanks!

 

[Setec Astronomy]

That doesn't look too much different than a normal pad spur.

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

Hi everyone

Just wanted to know if anyone has ever used this tool?


If anyone has any experience with it, I'd love to know what you think about it and how you rate its performance.

Thanks!

First, since this is your first post to our forum...

Welcome to Autogeek Online! :welcome:


I've never used that spur, first time I've seen it, looks like a variation of the one we sell out the Autogeek.net store here,

Duo Spur Wool & Foam Pad Cleaning Tool

What are you working on?

 

[Mike@DistinctImage]

Hi Mike

Thanks for the warm welcome!

I am working with foam CCS Lake Country 6.5" pads and needed a proper tool as I tried the toothbrush method and it started eating away at the pads so stopped immediately. I can source a spur in my country like the one on the far right but apparently it's not good to use on foam pads. Do you agree? I've already ordered the spin doctor but it's going to take a long time to arrive from the states so wanted to get something in the mean time.

Thanks for the feedback :urtheman:

Mike Honeyman

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

I am working with foam CCS Lake Country 6.5" pads and needed a proper tool as I tried the toothbrush method and it started eating away at the pads so stopped immediately.

Usually when a nylon brush is eating away at the foam it's when it's being used to clean a foam pad on a rotary buffer.

Often times DA polishers are not easily available in other countries but rotary buffers are, so I'm going to assume you're using a rotary buffer.

CCS pads and any pad that has a design makes it more challenging than a flat pad and when you run a nylon brush over a pad with a design to it on a rotary buffer the bristles will tend to catch into one side of the indented design and tend to tear it a little...

One option is to use compressed air if you have an air compressor... most people don't have access to an air compressor so you just have to improvise or switch over to flat pad designs.

Another option is to clean the pad using a nylon brush by brushing the pad without spinning it on a rotary buffer or get a pad washer like the Grit Guard Universal Pad Washer.


Show Car Garage Video: How to use the Grit Guard Universal Pad Washer


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Grit Guard Universal Pad Washer

 

[Mike@DistinctImage]

Hi Mike, I am using a kestrel das-6 dual action polisher. That's weird then if it should do it with a rotary. I must clearly be doing something wrong Do you have any experience using the pad spur on the far right with foam pads? Is it true to use only on wool pads?

Thanks for the advice it is greatly appreciated!

Mike

 

[Derrick]

Hi everyone

Just wanted to know if anyone has ever used this tool?

Motor-Guard-SD-1-Buffing-Cleaner

If anyone has any experience with it, I'd love to know what you think about it and how you rate its performance.

Thanks!

I have one and it works well. The only problem I have is the spinning rubber blades keep breaking when I put it in my bag. The good news is the company will sell you a replacement spinner for a reasonable cost which makes it a good tool.

Derrick

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

Hi Mike, I am using a kestrel das-6 dual action polisher. That's weird then if it should do it with a rotary.

Is the Kestrel DAS-6 is a copy of the Porter Cable 7424XP and this means it has a Free Floating Spindle Assembly.

The Free Floating Spindle Assembly - The Story Behind The Story...


Kestrel DAS-6 Dual Action Polisher

You will notice that if you hold a nylon brush against the face of the pad with the polisher turned on at the highest setting the pad will only rotate well when the bristles are held in the center of the pad and as soon as you try to push the bristles against the outer face of the pad the isolated pressure from the nylon brush against the face of the pad will act to actually stop the pad from rotating.

It's not a good way to clean the pad and it would be faster to just turn the polisher off, hold the pad from spinning and brush the face of the pad however you can with your brush.

The only really good way to clean a pad on a DA Style Polisher is to use the "How to clean your pad on the fly" technique.

In my list of articles, you can find this under the heading, Pad Cleaning, see below...



Pad Cleaning

Why it's important to clean your pads often...

Cleaning Pads with the Flex 3401 and the Grit Guard Universal Pad Washer

How to clean your foam pad on the fly

How to adjust the Pad Cleaning Plate in the System 2000 Pad Washer

I must clearly be doing something wrong Do you have any experience using the pad spur on the far right with foam pads? Is it true to use only on wool pads?

Thanks for the advice it is greatly appreciated!

Mike

Lots of experience and you are correct that the steel spur is only for wool cutting or polishing pads.

Don't use it on a foam pad.

Seriously, to clean you pad, get some small, clean terry cloth towels and use the How to clean your foam pad on the fly Technique.


:xyxthumbs:

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

I have one and it works well. The

Thanks for chiming in Derrick,

Just to clarify, are you using it with a rotary buffer, a DA Polisher or both?

 

[Mike@DistinctImage]

Thanks Mike those articles have given me a lot more insight into pad cleaning.

To Derrick why do the rubber spinners break when you put it in your bag?

Thanks!

 

[Derrick]

Thanks for chiming in Derrick,

Just to clarify, are you using it with a rotary buffer, a DA Polisher or both?

Mike,
It only works with a rotary but it might work with a flex 3401. It depends on how fast the pad full rotates. I'm not totally positive about the the Flex though.

Derrick

 

[Derrick]

Thanks Mike those articles have given me a lot more insight into pad cleaning.

To Derrick why do the rubber spinners break when you put it in your bag?

Thanks!

They are not really flexible. While the rotary pad is spinning the spinner rotates to knock the used polish off the pad. My problem is I sometimes stuff the tool at the bottom of my bag and the weigh from the products that's on top will snap a blade or two off making the tool unable to function.

I don't used it much anymore now that I have a pad washer.

Derrick