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 Stainless Steel Wool Pad Brush
Fluff up compacted, wool pads
to reduce polisher "bounce".
If you routinely use wool
compounding pads to detail older vehicles, boats or RV's. you'll find our Stainless
Steel Wool Pad Brush invaluable.
As you use wool pads on either
paint or gel coats, they will become "caked" with residues and the knap
will compact down (become flat). This will cause the polisher to skip or bounce
over the surface. As the pad becomes more compacted, it will become increasingly
difficult to control. At some point, you will be forced to stop and change pads.
This isn't a big concern if you're compounding a car and have an extra pad to
work with, but it's a major problem if you're polishing a boat or RV. You can't
stop every 3 or 4 minutes to change pads when the machine starts to bounce a
little.
| Here's what
the pro's do. If you're using a professional, circular polisher, place the
machine on the floor (or ground) with the pad facing up. Set the speed
control to the lowest speed setting. Hold the machine down with your
foot.
Use
one hand to turn the machine on and your other hand to hold this stainless
steel brush against the pad's surface. It only takes a few seconds for the
wool pad to fluff up so you can continue polishing. |
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This brush works best with professional, circular
polishers but it can be used with dual-action polishers like the Porter
Cable 7424.
Use this brush on wool pads only. Do not use it on foam pads
or cloth bonnets. |
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| Detailing Tip:
If I'm polishing a large vehicle like a boat or RV, I will use 3 wool
pads. I keep a bucket handy filled with water and add a packet of Snappy
Clean Pad Cleaner. When the first pad becomes totally caked with residues
(after multiple fluff-ups with the above brush), I will put a fresh pad on
the polisher and throw the dirty pad in the bucket to soak. When the
second pad becomes caked with residues, I put my third, clean, pad on the machine.
I then take the pad that was soaking, fluff up the knap with my fingers,
rinse it with a garden hose, wring out excess water, give it a quick
spin-dry by putting it back in the machine and spinning out the water and set it in the sun
to dry. I then take the dirty pad that
was on the machine and throw it in the bucket. This way I always have one fresh
pad on the machine, one pad soaking in the bucket and the last pad drying in the
sun (Here in Florida, pads dry quickly!). Using this system, I can continue
polishing the boat or RV and always have a fresh pad. |
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