4" orange pad burnt my trim

joe.p said:
is this a cyclo pad ..sorry but it dosen't look familiar to me.. sorry this happen to you and you should be happy the car didn't belong to a client,that woiuld have s*cked..
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joe.p said:
is this a cyclo pad ..sorry but it dosen't look familiar to me.. sorry this happen to you and you should be happy the car didn't belong to a client,that woiuld have s*cked..
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yes this is a cyclo pad. I'm also glad this is not someone else's car.
 
joe.p- Yeah, they're Cyclo light cut pads. I use 'em with everything, even the rotary.



xinkid- Sorry to hear about/see that :(



FWIW, I find the orange Cyclo pads seem a little unstable at 6, so while I usually polish at that speed I dial it back to 5 for those pads so your use of 4 is probably good in a few ways.



But you still have to be careful with 4" pads. As I've posted before, the only damage I've ever done with a PC/Cyco was with the PC/4" green Cyclo pad combo- trashed the clear on the MPV as if I'd fallen asleep with the rotary. I shudder to think what I might've done if I'd been using an orange pad instead of the green one.
 
Coupe said:
Speed 6 is your freind with the PC.



He didnt burn the paint.
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speed 6 with a orange pad and some medium to aggressiv polish will burn paint fast on rounded edges and places where it may have been sprayed thin and even on flat surfaces if you are not careful...5 works great with a 4" pad...you can do some serious corrections....



if he melted the rubber trim..he most certainly will overheat clear coat and remove it....get a test panel and play with it..know your limits...better than a repaint..



as said i played on a panel and it will burn CC in a flash..with a medium to aggressive polish on 6 with a orange pad



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Accumulator said:
joe.p- Yeah, they're Cyclo light cut pads. I use 'em with everything, even the rotary.



xinkid- Sorry to hear about/see that :(



FWIW, I find the orange Cyclo pads seem a little unstable at 6, so while I usually polish at that speed I dial it back to 5 for those pads so your use of 4 is probably good in a few ways.



But you still have to be careful with 4" pads. As I've posted before, the only damage I've ever done with a PC/Cyco was with the PC/4" green Cyclo pad combo- trashed the clear on the MPV as if I'd fallen asleep with the rotary. I shudder to think what I might've done if I'd been using an orange pad instead of the green one.
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I burnt the CC on 2003 Trailblazer with the yellow E2K pad . I massaged the polish into the paint turned up the rotory to work the polish into the paint the pad barely touched the high end of the hood and immediately damaged the CC.I could understand if i was working the polish until clear but i didn't even get started. estimated repaint $300.00:grrr i got paid $150.00 on a $250.00 job..i'm lucky i ended up with anything..



I know a PC will heat plastic on trim and bumpers..



back on topic..the damage looks significant im sure your bummed out..sorry this happen..
 
AL-53 said:
speed 6 with a orange pad and some medium to aggressiv polish will burn paint fast on rounded edges and places where it may have been sprayed thin and even on flat surfaces if you are not careful...5 works great with a 4" pad...you can do some serious corrections....



if he melted the rubber trim..he most certainly will overheat clear coat and remove it....get a test panel and play with it..know your limits...better than a repaint..



as said i played on a panel and it will burn CC in a flash..with a medium to aggressive polish on 6 with a orange pad



AL
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Ive never burned CC with a 4" pad with a PC on speed 6, even with an aggressive polish. Im sure its *very* possible but you would still have to try.



Ive noticed that some plastics and rubber cant take as much heat as CC. Thats what looks like happened here.
 
I used a wool pad, PC on 6 with Meg's #84 on a 2002 BMW with scratches in the clear coat. I held the PC over the scratches (looked like someone used a brillo pad on it) for 1 minute with all the pressure I could, never burned the paint and the scratch got fainter, so I added some #84 and tried another minute (yes, I timed it) and the scratches were gone. I don't recommend this, but the owner was going to repaint the car if I couldn't get the scratches out so he told me to go for it.



From your picture, it looks like the trim just ate the pad.
 
SpoiledMan said:
Man, is that a 90's Civic/Integra in that picture? The trim appears to me that it's kind of rotten/dried.
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It's a 93 MR2. The trim was actually in pretty good shape.. I think I applied way too much pressure there. The tirm sits above the paint so it took almost all the beating from the pad I think given that paint strip is only 1" wide.
 
Coupe said:
Ive never burned CC with a 4" pad with a PC on speed 6, even with an aggressive polish. Im sure its *very* possible but you would still have to try..
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Heh heh, I sure wasn't trying when I messed up the clear on the MPV that way :grinno: I was just being a bit too "can't happen to me" :o That was on metal with just 3M 05933 :nixweiss Prior to having done that, I would've bet serious money that a PC simply couldn't do such a thing...live and learn, at least the spot-in turned out very close to OK, nobody else will ever notice it.



JuneBug- Note that wool pads actually will often run *cooler* than foam. They might cut more aggressively (depending on the pad in question), but what they can do isn't always about heat being generated.
 
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