Pad Absorbtion

[2001rotax800]

Hello everyone, I have been dabling in detailing the last couple years and mostly do a few friends and my personal vehicles. Each time I do a car I always wash and dry my pads afterwords, but my question is... It seems to me that in some cases I waste more product priming the pad than I apply to the vehicle. For instance, I just swril removed and polished my wifes Black Yukon, and as a LSP I used Poorboys exp with carnuba, applying with a black pad. The pad seemed to just suck it up and finally at the end of the application I was able to ge some distance out of the amount applied to the pad. Then as I was washing the pad, I was able to squeeze out quite a bit. Is there any way to prevent this? Thanks in advance you all are great,

 

[Bunky]

You could be over priming the pad. You should use just enough so you can cover the work area. You can err on the low side and if you do not really get even coverage you can add a dab or two more.



I do not that much polishing but I have started not priming the pads as much as some show with two solid beads. This has been with Menzeran. I just add about 2x to 3x the "regular" rate so maybe 6 to 8 dabs to prime. It seems to be enough to get going. You can tell if the pad has sucked up a lot if you can compress the pad and a lot of product comes back out when kissing the paint.