Kevin Brown Method: The importance of pad priming

<p>A primed pad will outperform a non-primed pad in cutting&period; So a primed pad should give a great polishing result on your car&comma; but prime your pad for the goal you’re looking for&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Priming your pad depending on the goal<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>For defect removal we prime our pad manually while the hole face of the pad is covered&period; When there is accumulation of buffing liquid&comma; you used too much product&period; For a finishing polish we remove the excess amount of polish prior to buffing&period; You can remove the excess buffing liquid by compressed air or with a running machine and a microfiber towel&period; After considering which goal you have in mind&comma; you can prime your pad of course&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Priming your pad<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Pad priming slows the absorption of the liquid components into the pores of the pad&period; Buffing liquids and polishes use hard materials to scrub the paint&period; By stuffing the pores of the pad with buffing liquid&comma; we create a hard barrier that prevents the proper movement of these hard materials&period; With a foam pad this hard barrier keeps the liquid or polish from moving throughout the pad&period; Because the pad saturation is kept to a minimum&comma; this is a good thing&period; Pad saturation is a performance killer&period; When the majority of the pad is full with liquid the foam will not respond or rebound fast because the liquid is not easy to compress&period; Other benefits are&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Air can travel through the pad&comma; so it will operate at a lower temperature&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>The pad can be used longer during the polishing session&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>The pad longevity increases&comma; because there is not much liquid or materials stuck inside the pad&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<h2>The result of a badly primed pad<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>A properly primed pad gives us control over how the pad will work&period; A badly primed pad will cause most of the abrasive grains to become trapped in the structure of the pad&period; The result is too little liquid on top of the pad or liquid that becomes unevenly distributed on the top of the pad&period; In both cases it causes bad contact between the pad and the paint&period; Another example of a badly primed pad is that the grains can attach to the paint surface or will flung away from your polishing area&period; That’s why we can’t stress enough how important a good primed pad is&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Relationship between priming your pad and the Kevin Brown Method<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>In the Kevin Brown Method&comma; pad priming is very important for a couple of reasons&period; First of all&comma; the surface area of the pad that is in contact with the paint will increase&period; This means that you can benefit every inch of the pad to do its work and you can polish a larger effective area in one go&period; Also&comma; the primed pad will slow the accumulation of paint residue on the surface of the pad&period; In this way the paint residue can’t negatively influence your work&period; In the Kevin Brown Method it is stated that not only the way of priming gives us a difference in results also the type of pad being used gives a different result&period; Therefore you should take a good look at the different features of the pad via a pad comparison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;