Duo Spur or Foam pad Conditioning brush. After my first outing with the pc I realized that either of these would have made my life about 20x easier, combined with the pinnacle xmt pad cleaner I should be able to keep my pad fresh . Anyone use any of these particular products? or could recommend something similar ? Also I was looking at that pad cleaning machine for about 130-150 but i am really not that serious yet and would rather buy more pads as an alternative to that.

 

i use the spur...
especially when doing heavy lifting such as compounding.
any time that product cakes on the pads a spur is a nice tool.

 

I use the very same brush posted in the OP's second link. Works great. You can see product coming off the pad when you use the brush on it.

 

i've got to get one of those...

 

I need to try the spur. the foam pad conditioning brush ruined my 3M UK Green compounding pads. It just took the foam right off them. Didn't do that for any of the other pads though..

 

Boy am I glad you told me about that. I've got a handful of the UK pads on the way, via that group buy on DB. I'd have been pretty upset had I destroyed one of them...

Thanks for the heads up!

 

I use the second brush as well. Might get a 2nd one this year. Great tool to have

 

^ +1
i'm with slanguage once again

 

Just ordered some stuff from autogeek, I ended up getting the duo spur, xmt pad cleaning kit and microfiber detergent and 2 grit guards. Realized I needed some new buckets for the grit guard since the ones I have are way too small, Home Depot had their big plastic orange paint buckets on sale for 2.97 a piece YMMV though. I hope the weather is nice this weekend : /