Achieving SSR2.5 results with Optimum Polish?

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With the PC, I can remove most light-moderate swirls with SSR2.5+LC white polishing pad @ 5.5. However, I'm not too happy with its short working time and dusting. I tried out OCP this weekend and was impressed by its long working time and little to no dusting. But, I wasn't able to remove the same level of swirls as I could with SSR2.5. I'm assuming it was my pad choice. I only had LC white pads on hand so I couldn't step it up. Which LC pad with OCP would best equate to SSR2.5+LC white pad? For that matter, which pad by any manufacturer would?

Thanks in advance - Jason
 
The math is simple: the OCP is rotary-tuned, so a "weaker" machine, like a PC, needs more aggressive pads. Try an orange or yellow cutting pad. Don't saturate them because you'll lose cutting power - but maybe that was the initial problem as well... You need just a few little drops of OCP otherwise you'll slide on the top of the polishing oils - without cutting.
 
Optimum Polish works as well as 2.5 and DACP using a Meguiars burgandy cutting pad. No noticable marring either, although I'd still follow with Optimum and a polishing pad.



Optimum with a burgandy Meguiars pad did better on the spider swirls on an Audi TT than DACP and a yellow Propel Cutting pad.
 
Thanks guys...that's what I had figured. I'll bust out the LC yellows next time and follow up with whites. I've never used the Meguiar's pad, but there's a local dealer that I may check out.



- J
 
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