What did I do to my NEW CCS Pad?

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Monte78Carlo2k1

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:confused: The following pictures are of my 5.25" CCS Pads that I bought from one of the vendors. This is only from ONE use with my PC and Megs. #2 with moderate pressure. I am not by any means bashing the pad nor am I bashing the vendor I bought these from! I have no clue how I managed to doing this:

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The back is actually curved more than the picture is showing.



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Er... I have no idea what happened.. Why is it that the sides are so curved? Did you use it on a weird surface or something?
 
I used it on my car and that was it. Here is the car I used the pad on:

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Nevermind the date on the last pic. I didnt realize the date stamp was on. Plus it was wrong anyways.

I dont see any problem areas that would make sense of this.
 
it looks like the pad had some serious pressure on the pad and when compressed the edges curled upwards and the center compressed maybe from heat from alot of pressure...I use those pads all the time and never had one turn out like that....



I am not saying you did use a lot of pressure..but stating thats what looks like with a pad looking like that



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PC's heat up BP's alot more than rotarys, hell i never heat up a BP or adapter with my rotary. I bet it heated up the pad and the pad kinda started to melt.
 
I've torn up pads even worse than that before during intensive polishing. We weren't there when you did this so there's no way we can tell you what you did *exactly*, but I can tell you a few things that would cause this. Most of them have already been mentioned, like excessive pressure, high surface temps, and by putting pressure on the edges of the pad instead of keeping it flat and even.



I would venture to say you used a lot of pressure, and possibly tilted the machine a lot using the edges of the pad. Every time you use the edge of the pad, you dig the backing plate into the pad and tear it up.
 
Its not really hot surface temps.



Try this:

With 4"-6.5" pads.

Polish a 12"x12" section aggresively, alot of pressure, moving slowly ect. at speed 6 for a good 5-8 minutes. Feel the surface of the paint, i bet its barely warm. Now take off your pad and feel your BP, i bet its hot. Thats what kill pads and backing plates.
 
Coupe said:
Its not really hot surface temps.
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Yes, and no. The surface temps don't directly affect the pad, correct, but in turn it affects the polish by dying it up prematurely which makes the polish and pad drag, which creates more friction, which creates more heat, and so on. All of it is related in some way or another.



In this particular situation, it still looks like excessive pressure was used, imo.
 
Well the surface was cool to the touch when I started. I was in the garage when I was using the pad. PC was set at speed 5.



SuperBee: Thankyou for the kind words:D.
 
I will be polishing my car this weekend and I have white 5.25" CCS pads from Danase. If I remember to do it I will check how my backing plate is doing heat wise.
 
Coupe said:
Its not really hot surface temps.



Try this:

With 4"-6.5" pads.

Polish a 12"x12" section aggresively, alot of pressure, moving slowly ect. at speed 6 for a good 5-8 minutes. Feel the surface of the paint, i bet its barely warm. Now take off your pad and feel your BP, i bet its hot. Thats what kill pads and backing plates.
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Agreed. The constant direction change of the orbital motion puts a lot of stress on the velcro, and generates a good deal of heat. It's been a while since I did serious polishing with the PC (Cyclo these days), but after killing a couple of pads from long use at speed 6, I started making sure I always had several pads on hand, and swapping them out every few panels (or when I could feel the pad heating up).



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Either way the vendor is taking care of it for me. Even though its not their fault! Thanks again. Next time I use the yellow CCS Pad I will keep my technique in check.
 
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