How should i dry my pads in a hurry?

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SayNoToPistons

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Sometimes my pads cake up very quickly and i need to hose off the polish to freshen it up for more polishing. Too bad it gets soaked and takes forever to dry. I try putting it on the PC and turning it up to 3 and it doesnt seem very safe since the pads can easily fling off (good thing i had my hands on the pads while it was flinging around). Is there a special technique to dry soaked pads in a hurry?
 
I have alot of pads so I never have to clean them during polishing



but your best bet is to clean them ring them out good and put them in the sun or buy more pads
 
Just wring them out enough so they aren't dripping anymore, they should just be damp. Then throw them on your machine and let run for a bit. I've never had any problems with my cyclo pads this way and they seriously dry fast. Haven't had to do it very often, though.
 
If I am using my PC I just ring them out best I can and stick them on the PC. I start on speed one and usually go to two or three. I do this with the PC over a clean bucket and the pad in the bucket with a grit guard. This keeps me and everything around me from getting soaked and if the pad flies off it ends up on the grit guard and not in a pool of water.
 
_Toast_ said:
EDGE system baby! snap it on, crank to six, and ALL water is out.
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Your toasted:laugh: Just kidding, that's what I do to. The rotory flings most of the heavy water out.



If you have a car in the hot sun, put the pad on the dashboard or the inside rear deck and this will dry the pads fast.



Leaving outside in the sun is fine but make sure there is no pollen or dirt in the air. This will get stuck in the pad and scratch your finish. This pollen season is killing me and all my details are done in my garage with the door shut now. It stinks!
 
Yah, if you have few pads then you don need to wash(quick swap). You can use XMT pad cleaner, if you dont want to wash it. Just spray on the pad and wipe off with a MF or use those pad brush cleaner.
 
Spinning them dry with the rotary/Cyclo is OK, but I've had them fly off the PC so often that I'd never recommend that. I keep a big plastic tub in the shop that I spin them in to control the sling.



Same as bjackson8 and Paradigm, I use cotton towels. A little residual moisture never causes any problems for me.



When I polished out the MPV the last time (big vehicle, one set of Cyclo pads for the whole thing with both products), I cleaned the pads by spraying them with #34 and rubbing them with cotton towels. Then I'd squeeze them against the towels to get the excess #34 out. Worked better than I'd expected, I never had to take them off and clean them properly until I was finished. This was with the 3M PI-III twins, which can load up in pads.
 
I usually just clean my pads by hand and then wring them out. After that I put them on my PC at speed 6 and they dry almost completely. I have never experienced them flying off.
 
Accumulator said:
Spinning them dry with the rotary/Cyclo is OK, but I've had them fly off the PC so often that I'd never recommend that. I keep a big plastic tub in the shop that I spin them in to control the sling.



Same as bjackson8 and Paradigm, I use cotton towels. A little residual moisture never causes any problems for me.



When I polished out the MPV the last time (big vehicle, one set of Cyclo pads for the whole thing with both products), I cleaned the pads by spraying them with #34 and rubbing them with cotton towels. Then I'd squeeze them against the towels to get the excess #34 out. Worked better than I'd expected, I never had to take them off and clean them properly until I was finished. This was with the 3M PI-III twins, which can load up in pads.
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I take it you mean you cleaned and then re cleaned the same two pads till you finished detailing the vehicle during "ONE" detailing session?

What were the two products?

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Denzil said:
..I put them on my PC at speed 6 and they dry almost completely. I have never experienced them flying off.
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heh he "famous last words" and all that ;) I had my last polishing pad fly off into some hideously bad stuff once. Hope you stay lucky if you keep doing that.



Changeling- Yeah, whenever I saw product starting to cake on the pads I sprayed them with #34 and rubbed them dry with a cotton towel. I was using the same PI-III 05933 and 05937 that I first recommended to you (they were preceding the Klasse twins). And FWIW the 05937/8 left a great finish on the Mazda clear, no need for anything else after that.
 
wring them out in the big trash can with the speed 4 on u rotary,until no more water sling,them run the same speed have air hose on u other hand, at the same time blow those air against the pad.everything should come out in less than 30sec.
 
You can put them in the dryer once you wring out most of the water. Just use the dryer on the same setting you would use for gentle or deilicate. Takes about 10 minutes.
 
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