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agtjamesb007

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I am fairly new to polishing with my DA polisher. I ordered 3 pads by Lake Country, The orange light cut pad, the white polish pad, and the gray finishing pad. The pads in that order are more to least aggressive. However I noticed that when dry and clean, the white polish pad feel rougher than the orange light cut pad. Probably a silly question, but this confuses me a little bit as I would think it should be the other way around. I would just imagine its that way just because its the way the process works.
 
Which kind? The flat ones or...?

I have both flat and the CCS ones and the white foam is softer when squeezing and rubbing than orange.
 
agtjamesb007 said:
I am fairly new to polishing with my DA polisher. I ordered 3 pads by Lake Country, The orange light cut pad, the white polish pad, and the gray finishing pad. The pads in that order are more to least aggressive. However I noticed that when dry and clean, the white polish pad feel rougher than the orange light cut pad. Probably a silly question, but this confuses me a little bit as I would think it should be the other way around. I would just imagine its that way just because its the way the process works.
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This is a good question that got me feeling up my pads.. I think it has something to do with density, and foam structure. Lake country has a wide
selection of pads, the orange Hydro pad is very soft, but Hydro doesn`t come in white...so maybe you don`t have the same pad line,
diff. pad color & pad line.
To me the flat orange still seem rougher than the flat white. There is the yellow which is noticeably "rougher" than white.
How did you clean them may I ask ??
(oh, they are not china knock-offs right ??)
 
I had asked Eric Dunn a question about this a while back when someone was claiming porosity was the sole determination of cut. He had said it was more related to the actual cross sectional density when compressed so stiffness, porosity, and cell type are all variables. That is, trust the pad makers or your own actual results.
 
Which kind? The flat ones or...?

I have both flat and the CCS ones and the white foam is softer when squeezing and rubbing than orange.
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Yes they are the flat ones.

Hope you`re not planning to do the entire car with those three pads as that is a sure fire road to failure. Here`s an article by Mike Phillips regarding the number of pads you need per step: LINK-- How many pads do I need to buff out my car?
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Thanks for the link. Based on the description of the example car, he is doing one hell of a correction. I am wondering why tho he lists amount of pads for 2 different polishers. why should that matter? Unless I misunderstood.

This is a good question that got me feeling up my pads.. I think it has something to do with density, and foam structure. Lake country has a wide
selection of pads, the orange Hydro pad is very soft, but Hydro doesn`t come in white...so maybe you don`t have the same pad line,
diff. pad color & pad line.
To me the flat orange still seem rougher than the flat white. There is the yellow which is noticeably "rougher" than white.
How did you clean them may I ask ??
(oh, they are not china knock-offs right ??)
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:rofl "Feeling up my pads"....ahem. Anyway, I clean them with griots pad cleaner usually by hand. But it was this way when they were brand new. I sure hope not. I bought them I think from Autogeek.com.




I had asked Eric Dunn a question about this a while back when someone was claiming porosity was the sole determination of cut. He had said it was more related to the actual cross sectional density when compressed so stiffness, porosity, and cell type are all variables. That is, trust the pad makers or your own actual results.
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I figured it had to do with something more scientific than just the feel of them. Thanks!
 
agtjamesb007 said:
Thanks for the link. Based on the description of the example car, he is doing one hell of a correction. I am wondering why tho he lists amount of pads for 2 different polishers. why should that matter? Unless I misunderstood.
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They are two different types of polishers, the Flex being forced rotation, but you will note that he recommends the same number of pads for the correction step (6) and the polishing step (4). I believe he is trying to make the point that even when using a pad like the hybrids you still need ample amounts of pads per step for best results.
 
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