Gummed up pads after polishing

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Lets say I do the whole hood on my truck with a orange pad and DACP. After doing the whole hood the pad is gummed up. Now I can't change to another orange pad because I only got one. Should I just use a nylon brush to remove the gummed up polish that has built up on the pad or is it ok to take the pad and dip it into a bucket of clean water then rinse it and put it back on the pc and spin it to dry and continue to the next panel?
 
if your using the PC i would just get a pretty damp terry cloth towel and clean off the excess product. if you wet the pad and spin dry it on the pc its either gonna eventually fly off or your going to damage the adhesive backing . i havent tried using the nylon brushes to be honest with you. You may be using toomuch product for it to be gumming up on ya. You can try misting the pad or surface of the area your working on to get some of that excess product on the surface.
 
what is the right thing (spur I believe) to de gum the pad

my pads only get gummy after a one side of a car compared to every second panel a while back

Sometimes I have to improvise and have used the handle of a paint brush sometimes.
 
last weekend I tried #83 on a severely oxidized paint job with my orange pad, and the rotary. Wow it came out looking like glass, pretty quickly too. BUT it gummed up the pad every 5-10 minutes. I had to take the pad off and hit it with high pressure from the garden hose to get it clean, and then dry it while spinning the rotary. It only took a few minutes but was an inconvenience. I had a huge suburban to work with and try different methods so I tried all kinds of ways, speeds, and amount of dacp applied. It just digs into the paint and throws the machine unless I use a lot of product. Maybe I did something wrong, but it would work great for a few min, then the more the pad gums up the more product you need to keep it from grabbing the paint and throwing the machine
 
Well, spurs are for wool pads. If your getting caking up then i would try and use less product you really dont need to take it off when using a rotory just use the method i described above and it may save ya some time.
 
When I apply any polish(DACP or MFP) I always apply a thin circle of polish near the outer edges of the pad and mist the surface and pad before polishing.



Another question popped up....how often should I lay on a circle of polish on the pad? Should it be applied when moving on to the next panel?
 
It's not gumming up that much now, once or twice per car

Now I am doing the 12,3,6 and 9 method where you apply four dabs of product on the pad and spread with the machine off.

Working very well. I always mist the pad three times before I start and re mist the pad once if the pad gets grabby

Has helped alot



Thanks for advice on the spur, I had no idea it was only for woold pads. Don't use them anyway - too harsh for today's paints (white might be ok though)
 
We pressurewash our pads and most detailers I know do the same and have never had a problem with them messing up the backing plate/surface..etc. Wash it then ring it out and spin dry you'll be fine.
 
12-3-6-9 positions are great. I would actually dip the whole pad in water, and wring out before using. The trick with orange pads is there not as absorbant as other cutting pads, there very stiff, so your not getting the motion to absorb product, it stays relatively shallow in the pad, this is where it is gumming up. Try to keep your pad moist with intermittent spritzes of water. I even do this with #80 and Green pads.....
 
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