Re: [VAC] Polishing w/DeWalt/sponge buffer pad

[Roy Lashway <rlashway@zianet.com>]

I also used the DeWalt 849 and had some slipping of the pad which was  
unacceptable.  My solution was to cut a couple rubber washers out of 
something rubber I had and put this under the bolt that holds the pad 
down.  This solved the  slipping problem.  I used three different pads, 
one for each polish.  The difference seem to be the length of the fiber.  
For the innitial cutting the pad had the shortest fiber  and for the 
final AP 300 polish (all this was from Rolite) pad had the longerst 
fiber.  I suspect the shorter  fiber didn't pack down with heavy residue 
from the initial oxidation removal  nearly as fast  as the longer fiber 
pad would do.

Roy