Compounding dust

I saw Jim of White Details use a bucket for collecting dust. He sprays the inside of the bucket with water from a spray bottle. When he goes to clean his pads with compressed air, he sticks the polisher and pad somewhat into the bucket and blows into the bucket. The wet walls of the bucket do a decent job of holding onto the dust. He`ll spray the bucket walls with water as needed.
 
I saw a video where they made a hole in a trash can or something and stuck a shop vac in there and taped it up and turned it on when they had the pad in there blowing the dust off...pretty clever...might need to get crafty like that myself one of these days
 
Accumulator said:
JustJesus- That`s a good approach, the damp bucket idea.
Click to expand...

I like the idea as well, but don`t have compressed air yet.

512detail said:
I saw a video where they made a hole in a trash can or something and stuck a shop vac in there and taped it up and turned it on when they had the pad in there blowing the dust off...pretty clever...might need to get crafty like that myself one of these days
Click to expand...

Ammo NYC had a video like that. Not sure if Kevin Brown was in that one as well, but they did something similar, using a box, I believe.

Clever ideas, indeed.
 
JustJesus said:
I like the idea as well, but don`t have compressed air yet.



Ammo NYC had a video like that. Not sure if Kevin Brown was in that one as well, but they did something similar, using a box, I believe.

Clever ideas, indeed.
Click to expand...

it was that video where kevin brown and a lot of other famous detailers worked on that McLaren race car or whatever it was
 
Dan- Yeah, I think people are taking the issue more seriously these days; back in the days of 3M`s PI-II line those of us who mentioned it were basically blown off as Chicken Littles.

BUT..do Detailing abrasives generally contain silica these days? One of the features of the PI-III lineup was that it did *not* and none of my current products have the Warnings on them.
 
Not sure but I`m fairly confident anything hard enough to cut modern paint isn`t good to inhale.
 
I usually don`t get much dusting. On the rare occasion that I do get some, it is very minimal. When cleaning my pads, I hold the polisher inside my garbage can and if the dust slings off the pad, it`s inside the can and not all over the place. Any minimal dusting left on the vehicle is easily blown off with my air compressor before the final wipe down.

I`ve been using The Wax Shop 1000, 2000, 3000 lately and it has a long work time, produces excellent results and very little dusting.
 
I usually get minimal dusting too but the times I wear a mask it looks dirty to me. It`s certainly not as white as it started.
 
I`ll have a look tomorrow at all my polish bottles, but do any of them recommend wearing a mask during use? If not, wouldn`t that open them up to lawsuits if people were injured inhaling the dust they created?
 
RZJZA80 said:
I`ll have a look tomorrow at all my polish bottles, but do any of them recommend wearing a mask during use? If not, wouldn`t that open them up to lawsuits if people were injured inhaling the dust they created?
Click to expand...
The products I use don`t mention wearing masks.... Its all `bout the combination of pads/products your using as well as technique....I`m assuming your swapping out your pads, specially m/f ones.....
 
In my experience:

1. Dirty pads (dried product still lodged in the fibers/foam cells).
2. Too much/not enough compound in action.
3. Too long of cycle time (too many passes).

I prefer cutting with foam pads, but regardless of the type, I either blow or brush them out after each set of passes.

These products can really grind off some paint, which had to go somewhere. Manufacturers understand this, and prefer the product dust away, rather than clog up the pad. It almost seems like a design feature, although the trend is to make them behave more like a polish - which is awesome!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top