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badblzr2

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This is what I'm capable of:

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My bad, got sidetracked.

Allow me to explain.. the above pic is the after. The before was a nice, uniformly painted bumper. Cause: me and this:

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Not even a rotary... just me and a PC.

I was attempting to remove some particularly stubborn residue/sap/ I don't know what. It was hard as a rock. Aggressive clay, wd40, aio, fp2... couldn't touch it. Out came the edge orange and the OC. And this is the result. I guess I should be excited, I got the reside off, but... I seem to be in need of some paint work now. This was last week.... its taken me this long to come to terms with what I've done.

To answer quesitons perhaps before they come in... the pad was level on the top of the bumper, about 15-20 lbs of pressure (normal for me, never any problems before). I noticed the residue start to come off, and then took a few more passes, and on the las tone, noticed that there was white/gray under the pad instead of shiny black. Picked up the machine, looked at the pad and smelled burning foam. The foam apparently got depressed (I don't know how with the amount of pressure I had on there) to the adapter which burned it, and then the plate in the middle took off some paint. At least, this is the best I can I figure out.


So... I'm thinking nice little mix of user error, perhaps a defective pad, and some bad luck. The pad was as pliable as a mf applicator when I went about inspecting it after the mishap (after breaking a lot of stuff around the garage)....

I'm not saying don't buy edge.. I'm not saying edge makes bad products. I'm saying be carefull with edge pads around corners.

I'm here to help you learn by making the costly mistakes for you, so you don't have to.
 
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Ehhhh that picture makes it even more confusing, what exactly happened?
 
I took a while with that edit, explanation below picture of pad. Sorry for the delay.

Note: my car, not a "client", ie. family/friend's car.
 
He said he was using the PC. Is that spot not painted anymore because the residue removed paint when it came off? Is it a new residue left by the "accident"?
 
PM^.

For all.. the spot is the bumper.. fiberglass or whatever its made out of. There is no new residue, just a lack of paint now.
 
Could it also have been the residue/sap had kinda bonded (for lack of a better word) with the paint, and when it was removed, it took the paint with it?
That happened to me when I removed some stubborn yellow road paint off the side of my SUV. There were a few spots where the yellow paint came off with some of the SUV paint, but not as bad as what happened to you. Sorry to see that, badblzr2.
 
I don't think so, the residue was much smaller in area.... about a 1/5 inch line about 4 inches long... you'll see the missing paint is about 2/6
 
Being a bumper that was your mistake. Painted bumpers have very thin coats of paint, their generally not setup like paint layers on the body with clear. A PC and even a polishing pad can burn through bumper paint, let along a cutting pad and compound with 20lbs of pressure like you did.

Our Lincoln, Lexus and Mercury truck have painted bumpers and I usually just use AIO and PC with a very soft 4" blue pad. But I use almost no pressure and don't really work it, just quick cleaning and coat of AIO.
 
Allow me to reiterate one thing.. the paint wasn't "burned" in the typical, rotary type burn your paint off. The pad didn't get too hot, the paint was removed by the plate and perhaps the adapter...

We are in agreement that it was **way** too much pressure for this particular scenario...

The only qualm I have is that this has never been a problem for me with typcial bp/pad combos. Such is the nature of the edge system, and something I didn't consider as much as I should have.
 
Sounds like the plate in the midle of the EDGE goes round and the "pad" stands still. its not always easy to see if the pad spins. You noticed "burnt pad" didnt you? Look on the innside of the pad and se if it melted.
 
Regardless of whether it was user error, pad failure, or a combo of both it makes me hesitate a bit in my confidence in the edge system. I can't see the same thing happening with a velcro-backed system if too much pressure were applied. I think the PC would just bog down before something catostrophic like this would happen.

I use the edge system for the rotary and have not had any problems. But this scares me a bit.
 
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Sounds like the plate in the midle of the EDGE goes round and the "pad" stands still. its not always easy to see if the pad spins. You noticed "burnt pad" didnt you? Look on the innside of the pad and se if it melted.
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Pad is attached to plate, moves together.

Not sure how this happened, I had one of the earlier "new" Edge 2K systems and tested it to show the plate wouldn't hit, I tried on different angles and putting almost all my weight on it, I couldn't get the plate to hit anything.

What looks like happened is with the amount of pressure you put down, it tore a section of the pad causing maybe the plate to hit?

Sevenrd I'd be more worried about backing plate pads, ask my friend who had his fly off the PC while polishing after the plate seperated causing the PC to gouge his hood:o oooof
 
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