How to dress premtool polishing pads - Tile Advice

[acaciaguy]

Hello all. I have recently bought some premtool polishing pads of varying grit for polishing mitred edges / bullnosing etc.

How are these dressed before using?

Many thanks

 

[Flintstone]

Hand pads ? Straight out of the pack if so

 

[acaciaguy]

Sorry. I should have stated Velcro backed pads for grinder

 

[GoneGuy]

Straight out of the pack, only need to dress cutting blades

 

[acaciaguy]

Brill thank you

 

[Flintstone]

Says on there site to dress them, personally I've never used them.

 

[acaciaguy]

It does which confused me. I asked them and they said a soft material. I wondered if thirst who have used them have some tips.

 

[Waluigi]

What are you using them for?

 

[acaciaguy]

Polishing and profiling edges.

 

[Waluigi]

Get them on the back edge of a ceramic tile. It’ll soon flatten them down a bit.

I was using them last week. Actually ceramic eats them up. They’re so cheap that it doesn’t matter

 

[acaciaguy]

Thank you. How are they on honed and filled trav? I was thinking of getting a half bullnose wheel also. Any thoughts?

 

[Waluigi]

Not sure, I’ve not used them on Travertine. I expect they’re pretty good. I’ve mainly used the 50, 100 and 200 to achieve good cut edges on porcelain and to get close mitres on ceramic.

 

[acaciaguy]

Thank you

 

[Concrete guy]

When dressing is applied to polishing pads it generally means nothing more than running the pads on something first to wear off the manufactured coating and expose some diamond.

An offcut of granite is ideal for this.

Travertine tends to be a little soft for dry diamond pads to be fully effective. We generally recommend Silicon carbide discs for sedimentary and metamorphic stone. That said they may work, but you might find you have to periodically dress them on something more abrasive to expose more diamond to get them to polish. It depends on the compound used to manufacture the pad itself.

 

[acaciaguy]

Thank you for this.