Video: Mark your backing plate to make it easy to see pad rotation

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Video: Mark your backing plate to make it easy to see pad rotation


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Here's a quick video that show how and why to mark your backing plate to see and monitor pad rotation while doing any correction or polishing steps.





5" Backing Plate
Lake Country 5" DA Backing Plate <-- Get this one as the Velcro will match Lake Country Pads


The 5" Lake Country Backing Plates fits all popular dual action polishers including Porter Cable, Griot's Garage and Meguiar's.




Lake Country

5.5" Flat Pads

In order from the most to the least aggressive

Yellow = Cutting pad (most aggressive)
Orange = Light Cutting Pad
White = Polishing Pad
Black = Finishing Pad
Blue = Waxing Pad (softest)

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The outer edge of the face of these pads is tapered so they are actually a little under 5" in diameter
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Approximately 7/8" thick
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Still working by hand?
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If you have not read this and you're new to machine polishing... read it!

DA Polisher Trouble Shooting Guide






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The Compression Washer

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You're going to need to learn this....

How to clean your foam pad on the fly

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Get head knowledge first and then go out into your garage...


How to Properly Use the Porter Cable 7424XP Dual Action Polisher Updated!
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Also see these videos...

Video: How to remove shallow RIDS and how to machine apply both a paint sealant and a finishing wax


Video: How to buff tight areas plus concave and convex curved panels by machine


Video: Tips for using a Rotary Buffer and the Flex 3401 on vertical panels



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Thanks Mike. Was showing a newbie how to polish with his new GG6 and this was the first things I emphasized.
 
mjlinane said:
Thanks Mike.

Was showing a newbie how to polish with his new GG6 and this was the first things I emphasized.
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Exactly.

Anytime a person wants to remove below surface defects they want to see the pad rotating and people that are new to machine polishing tend to not always hold the pad flat to the paint or make other mistakes that prevent the pad from rotating and then don't get the results they're looking for.


Anyone reading this thread, watching this video that's new to machine polishing with a DA Polisher should read my article here,



DA Polisher Trouble Shooting Guide


Tyler, age 15 removing swirls using a Porter Cable 7424XP Dual Action Polisher

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Long time lurker, first post. My late brother was a master detailer and got me my first job at a dealership detailing vehicles.

After a long break from detailing, I am now coming back to it and renewing my love for this ART.

I am attempting to learn to use a DA polisher and this thread has been a tremendous help.

Big thanks to you Mr. Phillips for being so informative and helpful for newbies and pros alike.


Looking forward to spending a lot of time on the AG forums!


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2pennies said:
Long time lurker, first post.
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Welcome to AutogeekOnline! :welcome:


Thanks for replying to this thread. It's probably the thread I recommend the most and by recommend I mean I copy and paste the title of this thread because all the titles of all my threads are blue clickable links to themselves.

Anyway, although I share this thread with a LOT of newbies to machine polishing... it never gets any replies.


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I would like to respectively add that I mark my backing plates on two sides (180 degrees from each other).

I find this to be even easier to monitor.

JMO....
 
PaulMys said:
I would like to respectively add that I mark my backing plates on two sides (180 degrees from each other).

I find this to be even easier to monitor.

JMO....
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I also add more than 1 mark. My OCD does not like the lack of symmetry when adding just one line.
 
BSoares said:
I also add more than 1 mark.

My OCD does not like the lack of symmetry when adding just one line.
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That's how I started out doing, it. I would place 4 marks on the backing plate and the pad.


Pad Saturation Signs


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The above is from a "reply" I posted to MeguiarsOnline.com back in May of 2009.

Back then, the idea of marking your backing plate or marking your pads was a "new" idea.

BUT - also LOOK at how THICK the Meguiar's foam pad was back then? We didn't get THIN pads until Lake Country introduced their thin Hydro-Tech foam pads back in September of 2010.

Here's my article on that and you can see the time stamp of the first post in the thread.

Thin is in...


Hard to believe that while the first foam pad was introduced in 1965 it took 54 years to get to thin pads.



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