what causes polish to gum up with rotary?

was haveing problems with optimum II polish gummin up with lc white and b&s green pads on a rotary runnin about 1200 rpm.seems like it would gum up even tryin different amounts of product.dont get it. i will say i am newer to the rotary but just not sure what i am doin wrong.

 

You only need a small amount of product 2 or 3 pea size drops to start with. Then add 2 or 3 more drops on your next pass.

 

do you prime the pad with water or qd/

 

Are you using foam pads or micro fiber pads?

 

foam.lake county white and b&s[uber ]green

 

I've never used optimum II polish before I use mostly use Menzerna Super Intensive Polish and Meg 105. When I use foam pads I just put 3 pea size drops. If you use microfiber pads yes I prime them.

 

John Baker -

I use a Rotary every day and never had the product gum up. Are you using a perfectly or a really clean, dry, pad to start ?

Perhaps you are using too much product? Are you priming the pad the first time? How are you doing that? Is it really warm, damp and moist in your garage, or wherever you are doing this work ?

I also don't need to run at 1200rpm that much either - why are you using that speed? Is there a lot of deep correction you are doing to warrant that speed?

Have used a lot of Optimum compounds and they tend to have a lot of product in there that helps keep them moist longer. But I still like to spray a little chemical guys pad conditioner on my pad at the beginning, so I don't run a dry pad on the paint.

These Optimum compounds are also harder to remove from the pad at cleaning time, so it tells me that they use a lot more oils and stuff that will tend to stick to the pad, so after awhile, if you are not using all the product up in the compounding stage, whenever you add more, it might be too much and this will I assume, cause the gumming up stage you are seeing...

. I have found over the years that a little moisture on a pad that is going to be rotating quickly will help keep the paint and pad from heating up too much.
It is tricky to find that balance of moisture each time, but if you really want to do it, you can, and your pads and certainly the paintwork will be much better for this as well.

You are going to be fine; we can all help figure this out !
Dan F