On one of our Cimex machines I have noticed that 1 of the pads wears out long before the other 2 pads.
Any thoughts on why this happens?
I try to remember two move the pads around to get even wear, but sometimes you get caught up in great cleaning this system provides and I forget to check the pads.

I can't imagine why one pad would wear faster than the other two. I have seen that there's some normal variation between the three heads as the pads scrub on the carpet. Pad drivers with the pads are not normally 100% concentric. You'll notice that the machine will sometimes vibrate a little as you scrub carpet with the pads. This is normal.

But the pads should still wear fairly evenly. I did notice an inconsistent wear problem when we were using hog-hair pads. I've tested a lot of pads and I've found that inferior pads will NOT hold up well to the aggressive scrubbing of the Cimex. But if you're using good quality pads, such as the FiberPlus pads, you should expect to get long wear – 10K-15K sq ft.

Here's a long shot. Just wondering if maybe one of your solution lines might have some blockage. Possibly if one of the pads isn’t getting a good supply of solution fed to it there might be more friction on that pad. But even in this scenario I would think that it would be negligible since there would still be decent lubrication on the carpet produced by the other pads.

Sorry I don't have a better answer for you.




Rick Gelinas

This has also happened to me.

Me too, after I did 5700 sf commercial. One of them was slightly thiner than the other three.

You know now that you brought this up, mine does it also. It felt kinda of different one day looked at the edge of one pad it looked good, started cleaning again and it just didn't feel right, so i lifted up the head and 1 pad was paper thin the other 2 was not quite 1/4''.


I have no idea



Ades
Carpet Magic

I was just sittin here scratching my head pondering this little quandary and low and behold I think I've got this riddle solved.
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Take a close look at your pads and you'll notice that they have a softer side and a courser side. It's not a real noticeable difference - but it's not hard to see if you'll examine the pads closely.

I've always placed the soft side against the drivers with the course side facing the carpet. Try this and I'm pretty sure you'll have your mystery solved.




Rick Gelinas

Oh, come on Rick, what took you so long to tell us, LOL.
I went to my garage and check the pads, well it took me a little a while, they feel so much the same, but YES, they are slightly different.
It's possible Rick, to make them marked on one side so, we can for sure place them on the right side?
Something like, before the cookie-cut machine cut them
to mark them first? That will be a big help for everybody, instead to pat them, and the facility manager thinks we lost it? LOL!

OK will give it a try

Thanks Rick,

Another pointer...

The soft side of the pad has more of a bumpy texture. The smooth/flat side of the pad is the course side - and that's the side that should face the carpet.

Sorry I never thought to mention that sooner. It just never dawned on me.


Glad we've got that covered.




Rick Gelinas