cant find that thread that was talking about this any of you guys use dish soap to clean pads? i been doing individual pads and it works great, just dont know if i do any damage on them, so far so good i sock pad with water, then put bead of liquid dish soap(Palmolive) and massage the pad until its clean. then dry it with my PC and put it for final dry. anything im doing wrong?
I can't ever seem to get the pads completely clean, polish is always stuck in the little holes on the CCS pads.
Here is some good info from eshine: eShine Canada- Proper Buffing Pad Care I always let mine soak in DP Pad Cleaner or TC Citrus Wash, alot of gunk ends up coming out then clean with a brush, dry on the DA and put them Velcro up on a terry towel to dry.
As long as I wash my pads right away they stay very clean. I let them soak in dish soap for about 30 minutes then rinse them out.
i use dawn power dissolver and it works great. never had any issues using it for as long as i have...
Majestic Solutions Super Green Stuff...any APC will work. I also wash it with dish washing detergent and get similar results. I find APC gets it a bit cleaner but both will do the trick
Snappy Clean is not even funny how fast the compounds jump out of the pads. i just put them in the bucket. ring out and let soak in a couple times. go clean up the garage and gather all the other towels and less than 40 miuntes i toss them in the washing machine with the other towels and it is clean .
I also use Dawn Power Disolver. 1) Rinse out as much polish as you can by hand with warm water 2) Spray DPD on liberally and rub it into the pad 3) Let sit for about 5 minutes 4) Rinse out with warm water and your hands 5) PRESTO!
I use either TC Citrus or another citrus cleaner I get locally. Soak them and let stand for 30 minutes and rinse under warm water. Place on cooling tray velcro side up overnight.
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+1 to Dawn Power Disolver About two sprays worth in to a 5 gallon bucket and fill it with about three gallons of water. Throw pads in there to soak for a little while, take them out and rinse/wring them. Good as new. I've tried spraying DPD directly onto the pad, but I found that it took me a while to get all of the DPD out of the pad.
I just bought a box of gloves from Target, they had 30 disposable gloves for $3.99 so I couldn't say no to that. Interesting, I had not thought of that. Two sprays of DPD in a 3 gallon of water? Sounds quite dilluted. I personally have not had a problem getting the DPD out of the pads after rinsing them out, probably a few minutes or so...
Two to three sprays works well for me. I had tried spraying the DPD directly on to the pad and then rinsing it but it didn't work well for me. I have very few pads and need them on the fly most of the time, so having to rinse them thouroughly for a few minutes to flush out all of the products was eating in to my work time. This new method that I use works just fine and allows me to get back to work quicker. As a test, I threw some freshly worked with pads and one green pad that had been sitting around for a few days (forgot that where I had put it originally, lol) in to the bucket. I squeezed the green pad a few times to flush water in to it. Doing this allowed the product to seep into the pores and released the old dried compound from the pad immediately. Thanks to BigAl for turning me on to PDP, a while back ago. This is a very cost effective way to clean pads and the product is readilly available. :applause2:
