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  • Waxing produced fine dust...?

    Working indoors the temperature was 88 degrees, humidity 60%. Did two sets of passes with MFDA Correction Compound followed by an IPA (Eraser) wipe down. Next a a set of polishing passes with MFDA Polish. Wiped off excess polish with microfiber towels.

    Grabbed a supposedly clean 4" soft black pad, applied liberal coating of Ultimate liquid Wax to pad. Running a Poter-Cable at speed three started applying wax like I've done numerous before. However, the process starts throwing off a fine dust. Smaller diameter than the dust of say M105 and larger than face powder. Did an entire trunk lid and dust everywhere I ran wax coated pad.

    I must admit I was in a hurry to get done, so I grabbed a microfiber polishing pad and started using Finishing Wax. No dusting on the rest of the car.

    The dust seemed to be from the Polish. Yet the high oil content was obvious while working it and I did not buff it to the point of it drying out.

    Have not not seen this before. Seemed odd to me, to have a high oil content polish and or Ultimate Wax make dust.

    "fishing for swirls in a sea of black"
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    David

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    Re: Waxing produced fine dust...?

    David,

    Been thinking about this for a couple 'o hours.

    So my wild a** guess is:

    1) Some left over dried product in the pad.

    2) The 'wet' wax on top of the dried stuff.

    3) Just enough left over dried product to pull a lot of the moisture out of the 'new' product.

    4) Add heat (both weather and friction) and rotation/vibration which further removes the moisture...equals DUST!

    Bill

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    • #3
      Re: Waxing produced fine dust...?

      I try very hard to keep clean pads in a plastic tub, used in cloth bags headed for the laundry. This pad came from the tub and appeared clean, both face and edges. The Ultimate Wax looked right for consistency and applied like normal.

      It it really looked like the dust was coming from the polish. The dust even had a very slight color like it was from the polish, but the polish had been moist while working it just moments before.

      I regret not experimenting more to determine the cause, but time was of the essence as the owner was headed out of town with the car.

      Thanks for for your interest.

      "fishing for swirls in a sea of black"
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      David

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      • #4
        Re: Waxing produced fine dust...?

        Sometimes things just get weird, strange, crazy (pick one).

        As has been said so many times, "I hate it when that happens!"

        Were you able to achieve 'the end' ok?

        Bill

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