Backing plate and pad gurus?

Django x2 · 30 Jun 2009 at 22:40

been having a good old play with a kestrel and am ready to buy my own. To be fair, rotaries are dead easy to use I think.

Anyway, something confusing me and I cant be bothered to join DW for one question.

I want the 3M backing plate which seems to be 125mm and I also want the 3M pads which only seem to come in 150mm.

Is this right? Surely there's some overhang of the backing plate?

Clarkey · 30 Jun 2009 at 22:42

sounds right, the pads are like this..

stops damage from striking the surface with the edge.

kaiowas · 30 Jun 2009 at 22:44

This thread had me proper confused for a minute, the thread title had me thinking of brakes, then the mention of rotaries had me on w@nkels, then I read "DW" as "driftworks". Was halfway through the post before I knew you were on about polishing

I don't really keep up with this sort of stuff but on my porter cable the pads are a larger diameter than the backing plate so it seems about right to me.

Django x2 · 30 Jun 2009 at 22:46

Sweet. Ordering now

Cheers homeskools

Dogbreath · 1 Jul 2009 at 00:08

kaiowas said:
This thread had me proper confused for a minute, the thread title had me thinking of brakes,

I came in expecting to see a brake related question as well

Method · 6 Jul 2009 at 18:45

deffo an overhang on pads matey.

Django x2 · 6 Jul 2009 at 18:49

yip, ta. All turned up now. 3M pads seem to be amongst the best in the industry especially with their respective backing plates which have a nice flex in them (again, detailers seem to repsect them), with a Kestrel rotary.

Pics will follow soon but before I touch the 5 I'm going to practice again on my GFs car