Rupes MKII 15 - Considering Purchasing - will GG BOSS pads work with it?

Only Rupes pad I like is the yellow.

I actually love it.

The rupes foam cutting pads, not for me. Can't get used to them no matter how hard I try.

Very stiff and very odd to manipulate in curvy tricky areas. I can out cut a Rupes cutting foam pad with a yellow pad on a tricky curved panel.

Also the rupes foam cutting pads are strictly designed for their polishes and systems, due to their unique open cell technology.

Other polishes can cause the pad to blow up and deteriorate at a faster pace. With the yellow rupes pad that is not the case, you can pretty much use any polish with no issues as I have been using the yellow rupes pad for years.

Give me boss microfiber cutting pads, megs microfiber cutting pads. Yellow rupes pad, boss correcting and perfecting and I can get anything done.
 
Paul, you will be fine. I use them all the time on my Rupes 21 MkII. Let us know how you like them!
 
Joe@NextLevelDetail said:
Only Rupes pad I like is the yellow.

I actually love it.

The rupes foam cutting pads, not for me. Can't get used to them no matter how hard I try.

Very stiff and very odd to manipulate in curvy tricky areas. I can out cut a Rupes cutting foam pad with a yellow pad on a tricky curved panel.

Also the rupes foam cutting pads are strictly designed for their polishes and systems, due to their unique open cell technology.

Other polishes can cause the pad to blow up and deteriorate at a faster pace. With the yellow rupes pad that is not the case, you can pretty much use any polish with no issues as I have been using the yellow rupes pad for years.

Give me boss microfiber cutting pads, megs microfiber cutting pads. Yellow rupes pad, boss correcting and perfecting and I can get anything done.
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Right on Joe! :iagree:
 
Well, I ordered my Rupes LHR MKII tonight. Danielle at AG was very helpful.
Also waiting for a new G15 from GG... (sadly my G15 met it's demise during a detail last Sat...)
But the folks at GG are quick to help and should have one out to me next week (I hope!!!) :-)

With the investment in BOSS pads, in addition the gazillion LC CCS pads I have, I couldn't see needing to purchase yet another pad.

Everyone has been kind and helpful!

Cheers!
 
Good thread. It's always a pleasure to see unbiased, honest feedback involving both machines and which techniques and combos we've found to work great.👍🏽
 
Joe@NextLevelDetail said:
Only Rupes pad I like is the yellow.

I actually love it.

The rupes foam cutting pads, not for me. Can't get used to them no matter how hard I try.

Very stiff and very odd to manipulate in curvy tricky areas. I can out cut a Rupes cutting foam pad with a yellow pad on a tricky curved panel.

Also the rupes foam cutting pads are strictly designed for their polishes and systems, due to their unique open cell technology.

Other polishes can cause the pad to blow up and deteriorate at a faster pace. With the yellow rupes pad that is not the case, you can pretty much use any polish with no issues as I have been using the yellow rupes pad for years.

Give me boss microfiber cutting pads, megs microfiber cutting pads. Yellow rupes pad, boss correcting and perfecting and I can get anything done.
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I agree with you on the Rupes pads being stiff especially on curved surfaces.

Meguiar's polishes work fine on the Rupes pads. I used them with no issues. Others that contain high solvents can cause issues with them like Menzerna FG400. But you are correct that the pads were designed around the Rupes polishes.
 
The Guz said:
I agree with you on the Rupes pads being stiff especially on curved surfaces.

Meguiar's polishes work fine on the Rupes pads. I used them with no issues. Others that contain high solvents can cause issues with them like Menzerna FG400. But you are correct that the pads were designed around the Rupes polishes.
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FG400 is more so water based, not high in solvents.
 
WRAPT C5Z06 said:
FG400 is more so water based, not high in solvents.
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I'm going by what Dylan posted with regards to FG400. The wording may have been off but I found the threads for them.

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum...s-pads-input-needed-please-2.html#post1379389

Dylan@RUPES said:
There is a known compatibility issue with the green foam and FG400 and directly relates to the solvent content of that particular compound (which apparently is rather heavy). Switch to a water based or low solvent compound and the issue will be non existent. In any event sorry to hear you had the issue and we're exploring solvent resistant foams, not that we need them for our compounds, but that some people use these and we'll help solve the problem from our end.
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http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum...s-pads-input-needed-please-2.html#post1371096

Dylan@RUPES said:
Thats certainly the most unusual pad failure I've ever seen. Like anything theres always some chance its simply a defective pad, but with foam deterioration on this level it would be unlikely. Pads are cut from large buns of common foam, so it would mean we'd see similar/identical catasrophic failure of tons of pads in the same batch. The reports of pad failure vs. the number in the marketplace and the level of failure doesn't seem to point to a foam issue, but stranger things have happened.

I browsed over the thread, so forgive me if I missed it - but looks like you're running speed 4.5 and this is on a 21mm tool? If thats the case I'd recommend backing down your speed to the 3 or 4 range. Its a depature from what everyone has been coached to do for so long, but sustained high speeds are not what the Mark II are designed to do. 3-4 is your 'normal' range then you jump it up to 5 or 6 if you need to compensate for reduced pad rotation in a curve. Also, that pad looks HEAVILY saturated with compound - another counter intuitive thing in our system is the little amount needed. Saturating the pad to that degree can have some impact on the pads performance and ultimately the life of the pad.

Lastly, as was touched on - is solvents - polishes with solvent content seem to have a pattern of eating our green or blue foams. If I missed it I apologize, but what chemicals were being used on the pads?
EDIT - just saw FG400. We have identified a VERY specific pattern of that compound vs. our green foam that they do not play well together. I am unclear as to solvent content (or whatever other content there is in that formula) but I would discourage the use of FG400 specifically with the green or blue. Doesn't seem to have issues with the others and the green seems to be the least compatible. As our compounds are all water based they foams were setup for that in compatibility - the issue between this specific compound and that pad is something that only manifested itself fully in the last 8-10 months and there is a definite pattern.
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Here's the one about Meguiar's polishes.

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum...48-over-heating-rupes-pads-2.html#post1388292
 
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