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Originally Posted by Eliot Ness

Not Optimum specific, but for cleaning pads I use one of three different cleaners, and sometimes a combo of 2 or 3 of them.

The first thing I like to do is soak them in a bucket of warm/hot water with Snappy Pad Cleaner (the DP version looks like the same stuff) while I'm putting other stuff away.... I'll go back and squeeze them a couple of times to get the cleaner worked into the pad. If they still have some product in them when I rinse them out I'll go inside and squirt some Dawn or APC on them, work it in well with my fingers (or a brush), and then rinse them with hot water until them come clean (and repeat if needed). Sometimes a product will leave a slight stain, but I've always been able to get 95% of my pads clean.

I was even able to get some Collinite 476 out of a 4" pad last week using hot water in the sink with some Dawn. I did throw some pads into a washer once with some APC and they came out very clean, but it left a residue on the washer tub I had to clean off before the wife discovered it.

yeah that's exactly what did, hot water, + dawn, even more dawn on the 2nd time, and it didn't do much to the Optimum polish. I need something optimum specific, or else i'm going to have to use my finger nails to scrap off the polish. It really sucks! I'll post up a new post.