How clean can pads be?

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MxChino

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Ive been trying to get my LC ccs pads clean , and for the life of me, ic ant get them fully cleaned. A guy i talked to today that after cleaning the pads should look like new, but ive used some pad cleaner, dawn, mild detergent and cant get them unstaind, especally the white pads seem to be stained green from zaio. So how clean should i expect these used pads to look?
 
Squirt some dawn onto the pad and work it in real good, then place the pads face down in a bucket of hot water for about an hour. You will see all the compound settles to the bottom of the bucket. Rinse with clean hot water and you are set. Slap one on your PC and spin dry and have at it, the dampness will help the buffing.
 
I used to use bleach white to clean them, then plenty of HOT water (as fast and hard as the water could turn on). That did a great job. Now I use so many pads that I got those packages of Snappy Clean pad cleaners. Works fantastic!!!!
 
MxChino said:
Ive been trying to get my LC ccs pads clean , and for the life of me, ic ant get them fully cleaned. A guy i talked to today that after cleaning the pads should look like new, but ive used some pad cleaner, dawn, mild detergent and cant get them unstaind, especally the white pads seem to be stained green from zaio. So how clean should i expect these used pads to look?
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I've gotten all my pads back to brand new looking, even the white pad I used on the black lexus a few weeks ago that had single stage paint and turned my white pad completely black.
 
pt91 said:
dawn power dissover in the blue bottle at WalMart. nothing i hv tried works as well.
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The power disolver and the power foam both work great cleaning pads....they even cut collinite off the pads...where as Snappy clean and the other pad cleaners would not....



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AL-53 said:
The power disolver and the power foam both work great cleaning pads....they even cut collinite off the pads...where as Snappy clean and the other pad cleaners would not....



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+1 on the power dissolver



I use that along with a solution of dawn dish soap and OxyClean to clean my pads.
 
+ 1 on the Dawn Power Dissolver. Picked some up the other day based on posts here and it really does work well. I like the scent too.



+1 on not worrying about getting them perfectly clean; there's plenty of stuff that'll stain foam but will *NOT* have any functional effect on the paint. Back when most of my vehicles were single stage, I used some mighty nasty-stained Cyclo pads without any problems.
 
Snappy Pad cleaner makes my pads look brand new after every use. I haven't had any problems with it attacking the glue on any of them, either.
 
I've been able to get almost all my pads completely clean by machine washing them (do NOT use HOT setting), but I can't get the stains from XMT 360 out of my white CCS pads. It's clean but I'll just have to live with a white and pink polkadot pad.
 
All of my pads look brand new after using Dawn Power Dissolver except my white CCS pad. It has a pink tint to it from using RMG.
 
been buffing for years now and if your gonna use hot water on your pads you just lost that pad. hot water not only ruins the backing of the pad buy pulling the wool off the pad backing, but hot water shrinks wool in turn when the wool shrinks. it destroys the twine in the wool. the best way is to spur the pad very often. most beginners make the mistake of to much compound. to much compund to much build up.
 
bufferbarry said:
been buffing for years now and if your gonna use hot water on your pads you just lost that pad. hot water not only ruins the backing of the pad buy pulling the wool off the pad backing, but hot water shrinks wool in turn when the wool shrinks. it destroys the twine in the wool. the best way is to spur the pad very often. most beginners make the mistake of to much compound. to much compund to much build up.
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I absolutely agree about most people using way too much product :xyxthumbs



Hot water seems fine on *foam* pads, if not wool. Didn't seem to hurt my LC PFW pads, cut I can see the shrinkage thing being an issue.
 
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