Pad Cleaning Tool/Brush

[imported_artikxscout]

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.

 

[see_otter]

I find the brush works extremely well for me, at the cost of limiting the pad life.



I now have a small army of pads at my disposal. During polishing I will usually just swap them out after almost every panel. Now my pads seem to last alot longer now that I don't brush them continuously throught the polishing process.



-Jeremy

 

[RogueM3]

So it looks like people have mixed experiences with the yellow brush, dependent on the pad upon which it is used. I generally use Wolfgang pads or Meguiars Pads, and think I might order the brush with my next AG order. For now, Ill use the fingernail brush that came with a jug of Gojo I have in the shop!



Thanks guys.

 

[Accumulator]

Eliot Ness- That fingernail brush is a great idea :xyxthumbs

 

[imported_mosborn9]

Eliot Ness- That fingernail brush is a great idea

I thought so to; for a dollar it's worth a try. I didn't even know what a fingernail brush was until I went rummaging through the womens cosmetic section

 

[Junebug]

If you had grease under your fingernails at your wedding and your husband did too? You might be a RedNeck!

 

[Oreilly907]

I'm just getting started again in mobile so I haven't had a chance to use it yet but MotorGaurd makes a pretty neat "spur" tool. There's a good demo video on their site. Thanks for all the info you folks share, it's really helping me with my start-up.



Motor Guard: Surface Conditioning

 

[MachWon]

I bought the same yellow pad brush from AG and have had good luck with it so far, especially combined with the XMT pad cleaner

 

[imported_artikxscout]

I'm just getting started again in mobile so I haven't had a chance to use it yet but MotorGaurd makes a pretty neat "spur" tool. There's a good demo video on their site. Thanks for all the info you folks share, it's really helping me with my start-up.



Motor Guard: Surface Conditioning

man that looks great! i want to buy one, but they don't sell it in 1 packs, but in a package of 6. If anyoen else wants to buy it as a group by, for maybe around 8-9 dollars, let me know, i'll pick it up and ship them to you. 8-9 shipped that is. I think there's a MotoGuard shop retailer around here somewhere. PM me.