Pics of the Edge Pads

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I have been using the Edge system for a pretty long time. The only reason I switch back to hook and loop pads is when I need the pad to fit under a tight space like a spoiler or hood scoop. The rest of the time I use the pads and adapter shown in the picture. I never had a problem with the old system and the new one performs pretty much the same for me. You could have switched the two on me and I would have never noticed.

I will say that the new pads are far better than the old ones. The old ones seemed to be too dense for what I wanted them to do. The new ones are perfect. :bigups I would recomend the Edge 2000 system to anybody who is tired of dealing with velcro backings peeling off of pads and flying off the polisher. I would also recomend them to anybody who is tired of trying to center their pad on the backing plate. It is a great system that any new user to a PC would love and any experienced user of the PC will love and appreciate.

The fear of the adapter pushing through never occured to me. In the two years or so that I have been using the system I have never once had a problem with it. I just went out and tested to see if there was any chance that I could push hard enough for the adapter to touch the paint and it simply isn't possible. Even on the really soft white foam pad there is now way for the adapter to touch the paint. You would have to be trying pretty hard on a pointed corner in order to have it touch the paint. If you are trying that hard to bork your paint then you aren't likely interested in using pads as well thought out and safe as the Edge2000 system. In fact, I would, without hesitation, put an Edge2000 pad on my PC and push it as hard as I could against my own car at any without fear of the adapter hitting the paint. I wouldn't say that unless I was confident that it wouldn't touch.

Those are just my own personal and honest opinions on the matter. I think trying to roast a man with a brilliant system like this over the imagined possibility that the adapter could do damage is just stupid. Buy the system and then make your assumptions then. One is not qualified to question somebody's opinion of a product when one has never even used it.
 
Maybe a way to totally take the adaptor hitting the paint out of the picture is taking it a step further. First off, I don't have the edge pads but am getting talked into it possibly. I hope I am qualified to make this suggestion then. Anyways, someone can take an old pad, cut a circle about 1/2" in thickness the shape of the hole and permanently glue it ontop of the adaptor for even more protection, incase of a freak accident. Just some extra protection to have so there wouldn't be any metal to metal contact. Just an idea.

What pad is in the picture in this thread? It seems like the ones in the link are way thicker which means the adaptor would be even deeper into the pad. Could someone take a few measurements with the different pads to see how far in the adaptor is?

Edit- just watched the videos, it couldn't get any easier with this system it looks but are they dry buffing with a rotary :eek: ;)???
 
Amen to Jngrbrdman's last post. This is the voice of an experienced user his comments should be worth considering.

Budman, putting anything in the hole permanently would not allow you to flip the pad over and use the other side. I believe that's also the answer to your thickness question too. The 2000 system (the system that you are seeing the positive comments on) uses double sided pads and they are thick. I believe they also make a single sided version which you may have been looking at.
 
budman3 said:
Anyways, someone can take an old pad, cut a circle about 1/2" in thickness the shape of the hole and permanently glue it ontop of the adaptor for even more protection, incase of a freak accident. Just some extra protection to have so there wouldn't be any metal to metal contact. Just an idea.
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The release for the adapter is on the top. If something is on the top of the adapter, you will not be able to remove the pad. I would also like to say that I've put a good amount of weight while polishing my A4 and had no problems with the adapter hitting the paint. The few concerns I had at that point were totally resolved.
 
GearHead_1 said:
Amen to Jngrbrdman's last post. This is the voice of an experienced user his comments should be worth considering.
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I second that. What Jngr said is some very sound advice.
 
The only pad you would even have a chance of touching the adapter to the paint is the soft white pad. Any of the other pads are too stiff for the foam to compress that much. It wouldn't happen with the softest of the pads, so I am confident that nobody could get any of the firmer pads to compress far enough to do damage.
 
Here's another thing to cinsider for you DA users... The velcro backing plate really digs into the foam and tears it up, with the Edge system you never worry about this problem again :)
 
Well on the 6inch pads the adapter is below an inch of foam and on the 8 inch 3/4 inch of foam, but then it is also below the surface of the plastic. You see when the adapter snaps into place it has a shoulder that prevents it from ever going any further than fully locked in, and that position on both sides keeps the front of the adapter below the surface of the plastic disc. The disc is covered with foam or wool buffing materials. That way if you push all the way down and compress the foam or wool totally, you still could not hit the metal. Now lets say for argument you ran over something sharp and cutout the middle of the pad, still the only thing that would hit is plastic and the plastic we use is specially desgined to disintigrate with any friction leaving a scuff that you can actually wipe off with a towel. We have not had this happen yet but in the design of the pads we wanted to cover a stituation where someone wore the pad totally away and still continued to use it way past its life. In that case they may strike the pastic disc and we wanted to guard against that causing damage as well. Truthfully, the only way you could really hit the adatper is if you found a raised sharp corner or bump like an antenna hub when the antenna is down and drove the pad directly over that and pushed down hard. But in that case I am not sure what you would be buffing or if you should be buffing in the first place.
 
audiboy said:
The release for the adapter is on the top. If something is on the top of the adapter, you will not be able to remove the pad. I would also like to say that I've put a good amount of weight while polishing my A4 and had no problems with the adapter hitting the paint. The few concerns I had at that point were totally resolved.
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Ah ha. Just got to that part of the video... thanks. I brought it up because I thought it would be a preventative thing but I guess Edge was a few steps ahead of me in their design it seems.

1" is a big gap, it looks a lot less than that in the pictures. It's really a psychological thing, IMO, about worrying about it. As I said elsewhere, I'm sure a few uses and these worries will go away.
 
You are certainly not alone Budman. There are many misconceptions about the product and that is probably why it has not taken off as quickly as we had hoped. However more and more people are trying it and the word of mouth has really spread!! We totally appriciate all the nice comments and wonderful reviews that many of our customers have taken the time to write. It gives us the motivation to keep making great products. Because we have had so much resistance to the concept and by now we have heard just about every reason why people think the system won't work, we created a very informative FAQ page on our website at http://www.edgepads.com/Faq.htm where we answer just about every questions that has been asked regarding the Edge2000 system. I would recommend that anyone interested in the system who has questions go to that page and see if that concern has been addressed.

Thanks again everyone!

Aaron
 
I did a little test yesterday, and like I said before, there is no way even on the white fine pad that the adapter would hit. If anything you would have to put so much weight on it, that the plastic itself would give/crack first. Not likely to happen lol :D . Like Aaron said, the adapter is protected by being a certain distance from the plastic.

What I really love besides the quick release and quality, is the fact that they are double sided. On suv's/trucks this makes the job so much easier, especially instead of buying more pads and having to switch around with a regular hook and loop setup for example. Plus my pads are perfectly balanced and feel more solid being locked in the center. If I use the right amount of product, I can do one side of my suv, and flip the pad and do the other side to have a cleaner bite to it and not get any flinging. Well worth the money, plus the custom 4" orange and blue pads he made me to fit the adapter system rock :bigups
 
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