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You see anything?
- I got one that keeps coming up
and it's centered kind of on the priming of a blue DA foam.
People are still struggling with that.
So we've got to do something.
You think you can knock out a video like that?
- On it.
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- Our RUPES Bigfoot DA Coarse cutting foam pad
has a tremendous range
and can do incredible cutting, incredible finishing.
It's really an outstanding pad.
However, to the first time user
due to the stiffness of the foam
it might be a little bit unusual to try at first.
So in this video, I'm going to give you some pointers
on how to prepare this blue DA foam pad to
reach its full potential in cutting and finishing.
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So the initial stiffness of this foam actually
has a technical purpose and a performance reason for that.
The stiffness of the foam actually more efficiently
transfers the movement
of the tool through the foam to the paint.
So that is the reason why that stiffness exists.
Another feature of this pad is the contoured profile.
Now the function of that contour is to actually help
this pad perform better on curves
and contours while maintaining pad rotation.
The blue color in this product actually is part
of our color coordinated system that is intended to
give you an initial match to a coordinated compound.
So the initial performance
of this pad really depends on proper priming.
I'm about to show you how to do that.
So the priming actually
what it does to gain the performance
with this foam is we are going to warm up the foam.
We're going to spread the liquid across the foam surface
and then this is going to get this pad ready to
do the extreme cut and the outstanding finishing
that this has the potential to do.
So we will center the pad.
If you want a good deep dive into how to prime pads
we have another video on our YouTube channel for that
but this is how to do this particular pad.
So we will apply an X pattern onto this foam pad.
As you apply this X pattern
what we want to coach you on is to make sure
that you don't take the X all the way
out to the outer edge of this foam pad.
It's important that you remember to do that.
So we'll put this pad to paint
as with all of our priming recommendations,
speed setting number two on the tool
and we will actually run this stationary
in one place for about 20 to 30 seconds.
While we do this, we're going to apply a little bit
of pressure, really plant that foam down.
Again, the goal here is to warm up the foam
and get the liquid to spread across the surface of the pad.
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This is the desired result
for this priming of this blue foam pad.
Since we have run this
for 20 or 30 seconds, this is very, very soft.
If we didn't get this thin coat of compound
across this foam then we simply could apply a dot
or two more compound, run the tool 10 to 15 seconds more
and then you should get this result.
So once properly primed this DA Coarse foam pad
has an incredible cut and finish range
and it's ideally suited
for those situations where wool fiber
or microfiber pads might be too aggressive
on the paint you're working on.
This would be your ideal solution.
So to demonstrate the cutting ability
of this incredible product
we've prepared a sanding mark for you.
This sanding mark actually is a 1500 grit foam
sanding this mark
and we're going to make a tape line
for you so you can on camera
see a good before and after.
We are already primed,
our reload is just a couple of pea size dots
and then we do our standard application.
Let's look at this result.
Fantastic as expected.
We have this 1500 grid sanding mark
that we've removed with a foam cutting pad.
So hopefully this video has helped to show you
how to get the best performance
out of our DA Coarse foam cutting pad.
It really is a fantastic product with a big range of cut
and finish that can be used
on a wide variety of applications.
Please do remember to prepare that pad
for its best performance
and we've just shown you how to do that.
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