Foamed wool pads

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Chicagoareanew

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I tried using the foamed wool pad I got for the first time yesterday, and had some problems with it. I'm wondering where I went wrong:

I primed it with CG primer, and tried using 105 with it. The nap on on it completely flattened, as if it was glued down to the base of the pad. Then, tons of lint and pieces were coming off while I was using it, and there was so much it doesn't seem normal. Is that supposed to happen, or did I screw up somewhere? With how it performed, I doubt I'd ever buy another one of those.
 
105 does not like IPA or pad primers IME. Just use it without primer, I also bet the 105 is the older version.



What kind of FW pad did you use? How much 105 did you use on the pad?



Cheers,

GREG
 
It was pretty hilarious to see all of the lint flying around...it looked like I was buzzing the hair off a poodle in a hurricane. No worries though. Like everybody said, don't worry about a primer.
 
A foamed wool type pad is my go to pad for everything but the toughest colorsanding scratches.



With a new pad, I wet my hand and run it against the pad to take off the loose wool but there's usually not that much, not anywhere near what comes off the standard twisted wool pad with the first spurring. Then, I use just enough polish to lightly season the pad then only enough to keep it that way.



I'd bet it was the product combination you were using since your result and mine are so different. The pad is fine.



Robert
 
I bought the 9 dollar bottle of 105 from advanced detail solutions, so that should be new, right? As for how much polish I used, I was pretty inconsistant with that, and unlike with foam pads, when distributing the polish from the pad onto the car, it didn't end up spreading all over the pad itself, so I guess I need to work on that too.
 
it could be the new 105 from ADS. On the label it will show a red square: Rotary, DA, and Hand if its the new version. Old version should show Rotary and Hand only. This is true is the correct labels are on the correct product, which I would assume ADS has done.



Cheers,

GREG
 
Chicagoareanew said:
..As for how much polish I used, I was pretty inconsistant with that ..I guess I need to work on that too.
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Yeah, proper priming seems *very* important with M105, maybe even more so when using wool pads.



IME the flattening/etc. might look awful, but isn't really a big deal functionally-speaking. Whenever I wash my PFW pads they look *terrible* but after a few people here said not to worry about it, I tried using some of those "trashed" pads and they worked OK, just didn't finish out quite as nicely as a new PFW. Still took out 2K scratches via PC on very hard clear (did take a few tries though).
 
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