Just finished polishing with the Griot's Orange Pad, how should I clean the pad??? Try to run it through warm water, but it still have a lot of polish left in the pad. Can anyone help???

 

I use a citrus based powder such as Snappy Clean. For now, you may try Dawn liquid detergent.

 

All I have ever used is the Blue Dawn. I pre soak the pads in a pail in warm water/Dawn as soon as I am finished with each one, then I take each pad and put a spiral of Dawn on it and work it in with my thumbs till it sudses up then rinse. If there is lots of polish it may take 2 times.

To get the suds out after, I have cool water running in a pail and I squeeze the pad under water till near all the suds are gone then a final rinse under running water.

To dry then I spin them on a backing plate I have on my cordless drill. You can do the same on the PC but spin them in a pail in case it flies off.

I then place them velcro side up on a wire clothes drying rack. They are usually dry by the next morning.

 

Will Dawn disslove all the polishes????

 

Always has for me ... but then again I don't leave the pads dirty for days then try and wash them.

 

It works!!!! Thx for the advice!!

 

This is the biggest thing I notice a lot of people don't do, they wait for another time to start soaking the pads and once the product cakes up it is very difficult to remove. When you start soaking the pads right away, they come out like new almost every time, especially if you use the right amount of product on each pad.

Good pad cleaning advice

George

 

Have anyone using this before?
http://www.lakecountrymfg.com/produc...000-pad-washer

 

I want one

EDIT: $134 on autogeek, I don't want one that bad...

 

They are designed for rotary buffer use and it's pretty pricey for what it is. It would be nice to see one for random orbitals.

 

I presoak in hot water + Dawn for an hour or so. Then rinse, apply a little more Dawn and use a stiff bristle pad cleaning brush. Works well for CCS pads.