AES Industries711 Wool Polishing, Glazing, Buffing Pad And Bonnet Cleaning Spur Tool

These star wheeled cleaning tools are a needed tool that works minimalistically as opposed to fluffing things up, real nice.When grinding away on your finish with a terry cloth style buffing pad, the user "NEEDS" something to knock the crap off or they're going be changing out and primping pad after pad. This tool, with minimal effort, in a few seconds, allows one to knock buildup off the pad and allow one to quickly squirt more compound on the pad and get back to grinding on the paint surface.I'm sorry, cleaning the surface of defects. :)This is a piece of folded tin or pot metal that is well made. I'm a retired contractor and feel comfortable saying this is a well made tool. Yes, cheap looking to the uninitiated but a tool that will do what is asked of it, season after season and will easily outlast your existence in the Universe.Again, the purpose of this tool is to knock the crud off your compounding pad and it does a find good job of doing so. It's ability is limited only by the user as one has to hold the pad facing the sky, while holding the star wheel to the face of the pad, turning the buffer on and off as needed, to quickly clean the pad. There can be a coordination effort there.I give it four stars as like everybody else, I want to see the pad come out, looking like it's just been freshly washed and dried. Not going happen but those are my reasonable expectations and why I knocked a star off and no, I don't have a better solution.If one is wanting better than a tool of this kind in which to quickly knock buildup off their pad, then they'll need to have a dozen pads by their side, be willing to change out and prime each and every one of them as they see fit and continue in their efforts to clean up (prep) their vehicle's paint for sealant or wax.(I use sealant because it lasts a bit longer than wax)This is a well made tool, that does what it is intended to do and does so at a reasonably delivered price.

Great product . Will buy it again if needed.

If you're using a wool pad, you need one. I have no complaints about this one, other than that I couldn't find a US made one.

This tool is excellent for removing dried, caked-on compound/polish from wool buffing/polishing pads. Just a few short runs over the pad and all of the residue is dislodged and the pad is clean again!It didn't get five stars because of the low quality construction of the tool and the shipping rate is astounding. How can shipping cost more than the product? It's constructed of galvanized steel sheeting with rivets, so I highly doubt the long term usability and quality of this tool.

I bought this to clean the wool buffing pad on my Makita polisher. I used the polisher quite a bit to polish my boat at the beginning of last season and this tool did a great job of cleaning the pad. I didn't have to wash the pad at all....just turned on the polisher and held this tool up to the bad for a few seconds and it cleaned all of the dried polish right off. It's a must have for wool polish pads.

Gets the job done!

This pad cleaning tool seems to be the industry standard as it is nearly the only one avaiable on all the websites.It is what it says, and what I expected. What else could yo ask for.

I prefer using  Meguiar's WPCB Pad Conditioner Brush , but I think both serve the same purpose. There is just a lesser chance of catching and tearing the pad using the brush. Nice quality though and heavy duty.UPDATE: I've used this twice and haven't used it at all since I bought the Meguiar's conditioning brush. I tore one pad when I was in a rush and don't want to repeat that mistake. The spur seems to be overkill unless you use a ton of wool pads.