what brand is this PAD?

General Discussion
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…I thought that is a Ferro pad, so I asked Theresa from Ferro industries and she told me that they only make 2" thicker max all others are less and to rub out not to sand/polish.

Might be some of you, possibly the Aussie fellas know what brand.

 

thanks in advance

 

 

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No can see 'Verb. Photo no show.

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…very strange Tblank…here I try again:

 

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I can see 'em both.

I don’t know about the pad tho…

Homemade?

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Is there an advantage to it being so thick?

thanks

 

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      Howzit reverb,I had a couple of those down thrugh the years but I can't remember who made them and if it is the same as the ones I had they don't have a name on them and they are used for doing rails like in the picture. Aloha,Kokua

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I also recall Those thick pads. I bought them at a auto body paint supply store  They might be a 3M product but who knows?

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looks like the pads to be used with polish (instead of wool) but glue sandpaper on em ans they work geat for the rails. get good with that and you can sand a board 100% with the machine. i forgot the brand i used to have but yeah it was definately from the auto body store.

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Back in the day before the big squishy pads were commercially available, we used to make our own by glueing soft foam onto used-up old powerpads.

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Both photos now showing. Definitely from the auto body world. There are similar pads used by glaziers for working sheets of glass, cleaning up bevels after the cork.

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…in my opinion, those are not auto store pads.

Those shops do not have sanding pads and this is a sanding pad (look the base is big like the foam, the rub outs do not, always, the pad increase in the base, the polishing ones do not), not an adapted rub out pad.

plus, like the people from Ferro told me, all those rub out pads are less than 2" thick and normally 5" diameter, with a few bigger in diam.

 

-MD, yes, I did that way in the past, but this particulary do not look like glued 2 or more…

 

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Oh, I see now...it's super squishy. I thought it was firmer

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Probably some s#!t brand from South or Central America.

 

 

 

 

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…I bet that in those places do not know how to build boards the right way…

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Yeah.   You're probably right.

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…c´mon guys

how nobody in the industry know about these pads?

Im almost sure that they are not made in any America s country, or Europe country.

So, it s very possible that they are made in Aussie land or Japan.

 

thanks

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looks to me like a normal Ferro soft pad that someone wore out and reglued thicker foam back on… but that’s just my guess.  

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I looked at a lot of sites and researched through GlobalSpec and found nothing that thick.

I'm guessing Mr. Melville is correct, something home made. The blue backing pad is exactly like a Ferro.

Not a bad idea for complicated bottoms.

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Gremmies, all of ya.  If you have old “ferro-type” pads you can remove the old messed up part and glue on a piece of flexible urethane foam and make yourself a super soft pad that works great on rails because it forms better to the contours; now think of the possibilities, and get to work!

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…well, explain how do you do that “conical” form by hand

 

-yes, I did (and others) in the past what you say, but I did not obtain such a perfect conic form.