Porter Cable 7424

I'll see if I can find the pad brands. They are in a link earlier in this thread.
 
Finally,

This is where I bought mine. I have this type of pad too:

http://www.coastaltool.com/cgi-bin/...ds.htm?L+coastest+fdqh9254ff85b385+1194771038

Thanks for asking the question. I just went to the site and ordered 3 more. I've buffed 2 cars and a lot of boat this week. Most of the damage to the pads comes from mis-handling. I'm leaning off of the dock to buff below the water line. Once, to keep from swimming, I had to pull the buffer away from the hull. The pad spun out of control and spun a chunk off. Another time, I pulled the pad away from the velcro, but the velcro was stronger than the adhesive holding it to the pad. I pulled about 1/2 of the backing off. It still works well though. So, I have 2 damaged pads, and 2 good ones.
 
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Nehalennia said:
Ok I'd like to know what brand the "extra" pads are? Some of you have mentioned colors, etc, but are there brands and part numbers anyone can share?
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I use Lake Country pads myself. I have three different grades of pads and I have at one time or another used all three depending on the situation I was addressing. If you look at this link which I posted previously http://www.properautocare.com/oeccste65inf.html you will see the various grades of pads they offer. My suggestion would be to get the orange, green, and white pads and you have everything pretty well covered. I also use wool pads occasionally too with my Orbital. I have found wool works better for heavier compounding with an Orbital. If you are using a Rotary, you can use wool on a white hull. (I also want to qualify this by saying that I don't own a Rotary and none of my boats were ever bad enough to require using a Rotary.) On a colored hull, especially on the darker colors, wool seems to put some pretty bad swirl marks into the gel coat. Our dealer has a new "blue/purple" hull boat that someone went over with a wool bonnet on a rotary and they are now trying to get all the swirl marks out of it. It isn't an easy job to do once it looks like that. When the dealer does any work on a colored hull, they use only foam pads with their Rotary buffer.

I also think in your case the compounding product you use is just as important as picking the right pads. I will defer to others on this as I have never tried to bring back an oxidized hull. I do have a 3M compounding product I use on my boat occasionally but it is not for heavier oxidation. You might want to ask Skip about the products he used to compound his 420DA. Be real carefull too around your decals and stripes when compounding with a Rotary or you will damage them.

Dave
 
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Question. I'm still using the elbow grease method. I have often thought about purchasing a Porter Cable unit. However, my boat as tape on pinstripes above the rubrail and considerably more graphics below the rubrail. If you run the unit over the graphics (with care), will you eventually destroy them?
 
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I you want to do heavy cutting with a random orbit tool, use wool pads. Wool with a good compound will cut oxidation. A heavy-duty rotary tool will cut faster, but wool pads will help you get more use from the 7424.

Best regards,
Frank
 
Hampton and Dave.
Thanks. I did do a little reading on Properboatcare.com. I was just trying to see if I could buy them from Tools Plus at the same time. I think I'll just buy the 7424 for now and get the pads on one of the other sites you mentioned.

Frank,
I think for the oxidation I may just go run and get a Circular from Harbor Freight, but your advice I do recall from the old days. Thanks for the reminder.

SeaRide
I used to have a simple 10" WEN Orbital and used it on my 230. We had the same graphics package, except different colors. I didn't go crazy over the graphics but keep away from stalling over the edges(not to peel the decals back) and you'll be fine.

ok, going to buy one now.

Thanks again
 
SeaRide said:
Question. I'm still using the elbow grease method. I have often thought about purchasing a Porter Cable unit. However, my boat as tape on pinstripes above the rubrail and considerably more graphics below the rubrail. If you run the unit over the graphics (with care), will you eventually destroy them?
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Charlie

Mild polishing compounds won't bother them. A heavier rubbing compound probably will. When I use my orbital, I take no extra precautions on the decals with any of the products that I have used up to this time and they look just fine.
 
A question in relation to the Porter Cable 7427. I am considering purchasing the kit from properboatcare http://properboatcare.stores.yahoo.net/poca74madema.html, however I've realised that as I am in Australia the unit (designed to run at 110v) will be running at 240v and will likely result in doubling the speed.

Is this likely to be a problem if I have the PC set to the lowest speed setting ?

Also does anyone know if the PC will even operate at 240v ?

EDIT: Having read this: http://www.detailparadise.com.au/modules.php?name=Forums&file=printview&t=28&start=0 I've decided to go against the idea of the PC.

Cheers,
Darren.
 
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dgiles said:
A question in relation to the Porter Cable 7427. I am considering purchasing the kit from properboatcare http://properboatcare.stores.yahoo.net/poca74madema.html, however I've realised that as I am in Australia the unit (designed to run at 110v) will be running at 240v and will likely result in doubling the speed.

Is this likely to be a problem if I have the PC set to the lowest speed setting ?

Also does anyone know if the PC will even operate at 240v ?

Cheers,
Darren.
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Darren

That buffer will not work on 240 volts. You need to get something designed to operate on 240V.
 
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