my own pad washer (home made)

Thanks to whoever posted thread about making your own pad washer. decided to make one becouse of amount of pads i have to clean now
here are pics
cost: <$20






comments and ideas welcome.
still need to finish the lid

 

Oh how I love the people at DB.

 

WOW!!! Please post pics of before/after washing the pads!!! This is awesome!!! I wonder where we can get that small concaved grit guard piece that the pad washer has. If you had that then you'll be set!

 

^^yeah looked at autogeek and seen that red piece. i wonder if you can get it from grit guard company or something

or ill think of something else to use for that

 

RS1TC did something similar. Are those toggle bolts?

 

^^ not sure what bots called

 

That is great!

 

the bucket that autogeek sells for cleaning pads is extremely expensive...Good Idea, Misha, let us know how it will work.

 

i <3 the DIY!!!

 

Blue carpet!!!

 

is it designed to allow the pad to force the blue GG to spin on the ball? have you tried marking the GG and the bucket to see if it is moving as it looks like the GG is just sitting on the ball, under the bolts



yes they look like toggle bolts.

Toggle bolts are the Cadillac (or Lexus, if you prefer) of hollow-wall anchors. They consist of two parts... the toggle itself (which looks like a pair of spring-loaded metal wings) and the accompanying machine screw. Toggle bolts are sized in two ways... by the diameter of the machine screw and by the length of the machine screw. The larger the screw diameter, the larger and stronger the toggle. The longer the screw, the thicker the material that can be hung or the thicker the wall it can be used in!

 

The GG isn't supposed to spin at all. The ball seems to serve as something you can apply pressure to like the GG washer to bounce solution/water into the pad. it's an interesting concept anyway.

 

The pad washer is from grit guard so Autogeek is just selling what grit guard makes.

Interesting. The key is getting the grit guard to the right level. I have seen the actual washer and they have a floating dome piece that fits in the center that contacts the pad. I think with a little trial and error you can get close.

 

I am loving this. Next on my list is Grit Guard Universal Pad Washer which I think is a bit to much - I just may have to make one of this - unless ur invention triggers a price drop...

 

sweet deal . . . . . can you break down how you went about making that thing?

What are those bolts for on the side?

 

lol x2

 

i have grit guard set up so its covered with about 3/4" of water so its enough for most pads, its set up to do up to 5.5" pads (if i cut bolts down im sure 6.6 will be fine too but we dont use those (only used green couple times and its easy just to clean one pad

i found ball(doesnt realy matter what kind as long as it floats, its more for filling space in bucket and provide spring action which is not really needed per say. grit guard is pretty stationary there so its possible to just put bolts in there and have grit guard suspended in water without ball (hmm, maybe ill do that).
then i cut hole in lid for PC to fit in and then cut lid in half so i can open and close it, it still needs work to finish but ill get to it, ill post write up how to make it once im done

you apply as much pressure as you want, i used it to clean pad and works great.

 

Fantastic idea and DIY thread Misha! Thanks! This'll be my next project, haha.

 

hi ,
as you probably know , i 'm french & read DB ...
i'm also registred in a french détail forum : cosmétique-auto.com
tell me / erase the post ; in is not allowed to do this..
and a member make a nice hand made pad washer too .
the pict talk by themself

Cosmétique-Auto &bull; Connexion


isla
hope this help.

 

its asking me to register, would be nice to see how other ppl did it