A few questions on the FLEX

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DetailnByDustn

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Okay I finally have enough money to buy a flex polisher, wanting to know what pads you guys use, the flex will be my new go to polisher, I heard a lot about uber, and 3m pads along with meguiars, I will be using this polisher a lot so need a good selection of pads for correcting all the way to finishing, I right now have Css pads for the pc 5.5, is a small pad better?
 
Detailers Domain pads are nice with the Flex...



Lake Country PFW will be hands down your number one asset with this machine.



Oh, and I believe you have to use 6.5" pads.
 
OCKlasse said:
Detailers Domain pads are nice with the Flex...



Lake Country PFW will be hands down your number one asset with this machine.



Oh, and I believe you have to use 6.5" pads.
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What is there a set you can buy, or do you have to buy them separate?
 
OCKlasse said:
I believe you have to use 6.5" pads [with the Flex].
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You canuse 6" pads if you're careful.



I only like 7.5" ones for a) very gentle burnishing and/or b) for getting into tight spots (with the overhanging outer portion of the pad). Otherwise I prefer something a little smaller. That's not an :argue just anothe opinion...see what *you* like.



I find the Griot's orange pad very Flex-friendly (well, other than the way the velcro goes all the way to the edge of the foam, be careful with that). Better cut than a normal polishing pad but still finishes out well. Used with M205, it can make a nice follow up to serious correction, and it can be a decent one-step correction too.
 
OCKlasse said:
I'd just get two PFW and two finishing pads...all I ever use, basically.
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Silly question (since I really havn't used my Flex a lot) - if you have a car that has light swirling but needs something like SIP to remove them (so a finishing polish isn't enough), would you hit it with multiple passes of SIP/white (assuming orange was too much) or one pass with SIP/PFW, but at a lower speed so you don't chomp through the clear.



The more i try my PFW + Flex the more I like it, but I'm afraid of how much clear it could be chomping through to achieve its correction.
 
efnfast said:
Silly question:... would you hit it with multiple passes of SIP/white (assuming orange was too much) or one pass with SIP/PFW, but at a lower speed so you don't chomp through the clear.



The more i try my PFW + Flex the more I like it, but I'm afraid of how much clear it could be chomping through to achieve its correction.
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Not silly at all, and not easily answered either!



Two ways to look at it:



-you're taking off the same amount of clear with either method because you're going donw to the bottom of the scratches either way.



-BUT-



-it's been demonstrated more than once that some aggressive approaches take off less overall clear than repeated applications of milder approaches.



Hmm...:think: I honestly don't know what to tell you in this case. If one pass with SIP/PFW will do it, I'd go that route. That's not all *that* aggressive IMO. When the only diff is in the pad, I wouldn't worry much about it being to aggressive as long as you're still letting the product to the work. But that might just be a commentary on how aggressively I'm used to hammering paint :nixweiss
 
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