Rick i e-mailed you a picture of the pads. I have numbered the drivers to see if it's the same one wearing one pad.




Ades
Carpet Magic

Give me a call Ades so we can try to figure it out.




Rick Gelinas

Brought this up a couple of weeks ago, have tried some of the suggestions but we continue to have 1 pad wear out long before the other two.

You guys have me puzzled.
Very strange indeed.




Rick Gelinas

I save the two good pads until I have enough then use them until the one wears out again then throw them away, still 1000's of sq ft left in them

I measured the pad drivers, well i set them on my driveway and put a level across the top, they are the same height. I put 3 fiber plus pads and they are different hights could this be where the problem is?

Ades

I've had the same experience with the pads too. I've also noticed that sometimes a pad will wear unevenly. After I run it for a while it will be like a half inch thick on one side, then 180° around the pad it will be down to 1/8". I just pitch them when they get wore down to the "Critical" point(when the little plastic prickly things on the pad driver is poking through the pad itself).
I have had the deal where one pad wears out faster than the others, and I just replace that one pad and keep get'in up with it. I don't have time to fool with them.
Naturally sometimes they all 3 wear very evenly.
I suppose it's most likely a slight variation in the pads that causes these things to occur.

Tom

Worked all day with Cimex machine, only instead of pads I used bonnet pads no noticable uneven wear on the bonnet pads, the other Cimex used pads and all three pads are wearing at a different rate.
It is almost like the drivers are applying a little different amount of torque.
Primary driver, secondy driver, just a guess.