I plan on using these with a pneumatic polisher. Can polish be applied directly to these pads when polishing a vehicle, or are they just for buffing.
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I applied my polish directly to the pad. The pads worked great. The waffle design keeps the heat down, so there is less chance of burning the paint.
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I don't think so. they would smooth it out, but not a shiny finish. these pads are for stone,quartz/granite. If you tiles are stone like material then it's will do just fine.
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For gel coated surfaces, I use a wool 8" buffing pad and a DeWalt 7" polisher. Turn at slow speed. Very good cleaning and polishing results. For painted surfaces use a foam pad.
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I was able to use them on a six inch random orbital polisher. My polisher was variable speed and I purchased it from Harbor Freight. I am Not sure if it will work on a straight grinder and it might leave swirl marks depending. The pads themselves though were excellent excellent in achieving the desired result I needed on a concrete countertop. these are all so wet pads so you have to have water running across the surface in order to use them. That might also be a little tricky with a conventional grinder in that you might end up with a shock hazard
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Polishing discs are on the Porter Cable buffing machine.These would work but the hose over the shoulder thing isn't for me.
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Although not common, that is exactly the reason I purchased this pad. I use a mild cleaner wax, and with the mild polishing action of this pad, creates a very fine polishing effect. It also greatly helps when waxing a car that has been neglected as the pad evenly spreads the wax whereas hand washing can make rich color spots in thick pooled wax areas and regular color spots in the thin waxed areas. This pad makes it more even.
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Yes, I would recommend them but it will take a long time to polish and buff your car(?) wheels. These things are not very big and meant for small objects. I used them on my Dremel to polish bicycle hubs, crank arms, etc...
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I used it on a 89 ford truck was heavily oxidized. It worked well but watching car shows a lot if guys use a straight spinning polisher as it works faster. You will need the separate pad holder not included for using w pads. See pads that are color coded for use on cars. I've done woodworking and this is a beast might be awkward to use vs handheld. Except on big areas!
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I have used it to polish other items. A good tip would be to reduce the amount of air pressure because of the very high RPM's it can turn using 100 psi+. I use it to polish various metal items around 40 psi so as to reduce how fast it turns. Other wise you can actually cause buffing and polishing pads to fly apart. It's well made and has been working for over 2 years of seeing lots of work!
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I am not sure about using this orbital sander for polishing a car.But after using it, I would say that I WILL NOT use it in my car.The reason is that this sander works providing vibration and abrasive disk rotation, it is designed to remove external hard surface of paint, varnish, lacquer, polyurethane, old wood surface, etc. It does not provide the polishing effect desire in a dedicated polishing machine.There are specific car polishing devices you can get.Again, I will not use it for a car paint polishing.Hope this helps.
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Ceramic pads typically don't dust your wheels like semi-metallic pads. I have these and have never had a problem.
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Sorry Kaylie, I use for polishing motorcycle. But I recall using similar size for my kids before disposables. Oops telling my age. By looking at the size I would think they would but can't say for certain. We old guys used to use for polishing cars when kids outgrew the diaper. Good luck to you.
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The polisher did not come with pads. Buy meguiars polishing, finishing and cutting pads. The polisher already comes with the Velcro backing pad.
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yes they were when I bought mine. My advice to you is before using buffing pads use the brushes first. This will not scratch the floor and will prevent the buffing pads from flying off the buffer.
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To answer your question nissan g. The included polishing pad is made to be attached to a drill. So to answer your question, yes. Although you could get away with doing it by hand as well. It will just take more time
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If you have a hydraulic floor jack you can add this to the center lifting pad to help prevent scratching on the car. In my case it helps to prevent marking and chipping the powder coating on my car.
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The Tan pads are for scrubbing not polishing, They have green ones that could work, but I would get a set of the felt pads and use a liquid floor cleaner/polisher product(like Bona or Bruce hard surface cleaner) with them. An interesting note on both tan and green pads one side is rougher than the other, so be sure to use the smoother side for buffing or polishing and the rougher side for cleaning and scrubbing.