How often do you rinse the pad.

[atikovi]

I'm using #83 Cleaner/Polish and after 3 or 4 panels the pad gets loaded up. I take it off and rinse under hot water, squeeze it out and run it a few seconds on the polisher to get the rest of the water out. Is that typical or am I using too much polish? IS the polishing action reduced by using a damp pad?

[HagFan]

Re: How often do you rinse the pad.

It's not typical. The recommended in-process cleaning method is a wadded terricloth towel pressed against the rotating pad. I will take a small detailing brush and clean mine as it rotates. After a couple of cycles with the brush I'll usually go to the terricloth.

You do this cleaning after every one or two applications of the product to your pad with #83, a little less freqent with #80.

I know from cleaing pads when I'm done that those polishes tend to breakdown even in just water. That's not what you want during use. Opinions vary on washing the pads after use. I typically do wash mine out, but Meguiar's doesn't recommend that.

I think there is a video how-to with Mike Phillips demonstrating both of these cleaning methods, or at least the terricloth method.

Good luck!

[Andy M.]

Re: How often do you rinse the pad.

Do a forum search on "cleaning your pad on the fly". This was also featured in last months newsletter. If you are not subscribed it may be a good idea. There is a lot of great information there and featured threads for each month.

Andy
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[Michael Stoops]

Re: How often do you rinse the pad.

Like HagFan pointed out, pad cleaning needs to be done more often when using M83 than when using M80. I don't know that I'd actually get the pad wet with water during a polish session with these two products though. If you've squeezed out all you can using a dry terry towel and you still aren't happy with what's going on, I'd put a fresh pad on.

Something that is discussed even less frequently is how often you should just plain change pads during a detail. I'm sure if you spoke with the top pros who frequent this forum they would tell you they almost never use a single pad to do an entire car. Two or three, maybe even more, pads is not a bad idea.

[andyo]

Re: How often do you rinse the pad.

i just bought the #2 kit from ads and i am going to get more pads and #84 soon.