Description

3D 5.5″ Light Purple Foam Pad

3D Pad System – Keeping it simple…

One of the most confusing topics, when you’re first getting into machine polishing, is trying to figure out which pads to buy. There are hundreds of different types of pads, sizes of pads, colors of pads, and even shapes of pads. Here at 3D, we keep it simple. For most people and most detailing projects, you only need access to 3 different types of pads,

Cutting – This is our dark purple foam pad.
Polishing – This is our light purple foam pad.
Finishing – This is our black foam pad.

Foam Chemistry
Different chemicals can be added to a foam formula to make foam react differently under time, heat, pressure, and exposure to liquids or chemicals. Simple, non-descript foam pads cost less and that’s because they do less. Cheap pads also don’t last as long.
Some Detailers Think foam is foam, but this is simply not true. There’s a lot of chemistry and physics that go into the design of a quality foam pad. 3D’s quality foam buffing pads use the latest in foam chemistry to create pads that simply outperform the competition.

Unique foam structure
Run your hand over the face of a clean, dry 3D 5.5” light purple medium polishing pad and you will feel the mild but crisp texture of the foam. This pad starts out a tick on the firm side but as soon as you start to use it the foam texture softens just a little for the perfect balance of light cutting, polishing, and even finishing depending upon the product you’re using and the hardness or softness of the paint you’re polishing.

Longer lasting
The open-cell design also offers great tensile strength as compared to closed-cell foam pads and this means they are more tear-resistant and thus last longer.

Excellent polishing range
3D’s 5.5” light purple medium polishing pads are versatile because they offer light cutting, medium polishing, and even fine finishing simply by changing the product. To get light cutting use with 3D compounds or 3D’s unique  5o5 correction Glaze

Best Value
These pads offer a great range of polishing options, and the foam is extra durable. 3D’s buffing pads don’t cost more money, they make you more money.

Versatile
Our 5.5” light purple medium polishing pads work great on any type of polisher including rotary polishers, long-stroke polishers, short-stroke polishers, free-spinning polishers, and gear-driven polishers.

3D Foam Pads are made to last and get the job done.

What is it?
High-performance foam polishing pad for use with rotary and orbital polishers.

What does it do?
When used with 3D compounds, polishes, glazes, and AIOs, these foam polishing pads can remove a wide range of defects or refine and maximize gloss and clarity.

When do you use it?
Typically foam polishing pads are the workhorse of the paint correction industry. When doing multiple-step paint correction, a polishing pad is used as the second step after a more aggressive step, for example after the compounding step when removing sanding marks or after the compounding step when detailing a severely neglected car. The 3D 5.5” light purple polishing pad is also perfect for doing one-step correction with 3D AAT 505 Correction Glaze or SPEED. This polishing pad is also a perfect match when using 3D ON