PC 7424 Pad Cleaning

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firecadet613

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May 10, 2007
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SOLD - 2007 Four Winns V358
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How do you clean your polishing pads? I know they sell the packets of "snappy" cleaning solution. I broke my 7424 in today waxing my Durango, and I just threw them in a bucket of hot soapy water. Seemed to do ok. Should I use dish soap, or car soap?
 
Terry cloth polishing pads?.........toss them in a bucket of warm water with some laundry detergent in it and let them soak while you work your little heart out on whatever it is you are polishing, then at the end of the day, put them in the washing machine and wash 'em like your underwear.
 
Sorry I should have been more specific. I have the Lake Country 7.5" CCS pads.
 
throw the snappy clean in the washing machine on the low water level setting and hot water. Don't put in the dryer. Just like new
 
Use Todd's avice when the admiral is NOT around....just my 2 cents.
Works great though!
 
Weave said:
Use Todd's avice when the admiral is NOT around....just my 2 cents.
Works great though!
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It works best if you clean them in a bucket with dish soap first. The dish soap will cut the wax pretty easily.

If you go straight to the washer you can end up with a huge oily ring around the tub. I learned the hard way.
 
I soak mine in snappy clean or dish soap. Word of caution on the dish soap though......if you get lazy as I have in the past & leave the pads in the dish soap too long (more than 48hrs) the dish soap will attack the glue on the velcro backing. Learned the hard way on that one.
 
I know there are alot of fans of the PC 7424, but I'm not sure I'm one of them. I did not find it helpful for polishing. I've ended up only using it to apply wax, then use a Milwaukee buffer with a 3M superbuff pad to buff it out. And the black plastic piece on the PC front is loose and makes an annoying rattling noise when used. I've been think of using a dremel tool and cutting it off as I can't find a way to tighten in up.

I have a tip I'll share for hull sides and vertical surfaces, which is most of my boat: I cleaned out an old lig soap container <that you pump on top to squirt out soap> and filled it with lig wax. Now, I have this pump in one hand <and can squirt wax out with one hand> and squirt wax on the boat, rub it in with the PC in other hand <much easier/quicker then stopping the machine, stopping the spinning pad, turning the wax bottle upside down, shaking to squirt some wax on the pad, etc>, then buff out with the Milwaukee buffer. It works well for me and is quicker.
 
wish2fish said:
don't these pads have hard plastic and bolt attached?
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I was thinking the same thing. Mine has one white pad that had glued backing plate with the bolt attached. I'm guessing this one has to be done by hand only in the bucket with detergent water mix and then rinsed with fresh water? Am I thinking right?
 
Alex F said:
I was thinking the same thing. Mine has one white pad that had glued backing plate with the bolt attached. I'm guessing this one has to be done by hand only in the bucket with detergent water mix and then rinsed with fresh water? Am I thinking right?
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The pad you have is probably the one that came with the machine. I probably have a couple here that I've never even used. You can buy a backing plate w/velcro hooks that you use with the after market pads that have the loops.

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To wash the pad that came with your machine just take it to the kitchen sink, squirt a small amount of liquid dish soap directly on the pad, work it in & rinse.
 
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