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I ordered one of the presta pads as well. After trying out just about every compound and polish mentioned on this forum and online I've settled on the malco buff lite II finishing creme. It has a long work time with no fillers, cuts 1500 easily with my current wool pad and finishes nicely with a foam pad
 
Jimthecarguy said:
I ordered one of the presta pads as well. After trying out just about every compound and polish mentioned on this forum and online I've settled on the malco buff lite II finishing creme. It has a long work time with no fillers, cuts 1500 easily with my current wool pad and finishes nicely with a foam pad
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What is your feedback on the 3d products?...
 
have to remember the pads do the cutting. compound is lubricant with abrasives. new stuff is way crazy but the old stuff was pretty much the same. only different colors. the old r&m compound was red oxide mud. load the pad full of it and start working. had to keep it wet or it would make a mess but damn it would cut.
 
I had a 3d yellow wool pad and wanted to see how the b&w Presta pad compared with it based on this thread. I found a couple spots where I had sand scratch lines that were visible after I compounded with the 3d pad and 3d 500. I sanded back with 2500/3000/trizact 8000. I also went back and blocked a run that I could see after compounding. I took that back to 1000/1200/1500/2000/2500/3000/trizact8000. I then tried to compound the first spot out with the B&W Presta wool pad, and I have to say I was not impressed. After compounding the first spot I could still see sand scratch from the 2500/3k/8K round using ACA500. I pulled the pad and hit it with the 3d yellow and ACA500 and the scratch disappeared completely. To make sure I wasn't just finishing off what the Presta started I moved to the run area with the 3D pad. I spent 2 mins. vertical passes followed by 90 horizontal. Wiped clean and zero sand scratch. For me anyway, the 3D pad takes a fraction of the time of the Presta B&W pad with the same compound.
 
it wasnt sand scratches overall but rather some scratch from previous grits I missed. 4-5 scratch lines, likely I did not get completely out from 1500 or so.
 
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The yellow 3D pad really shines (pun intended) with single stage which is based on production clear and is significantly harder than Universal.

Don
 
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