Introduction to Pad Savers

all right today I'm here with Sherry at unida's headquarters where all their abrasives are manufactured and she is the hand sanding expert so we're going to be talking about the pad saver I was just going over with you you know some tips and tricks when it comes to sanding and I found out that I haven't been using one of these things and I really should be using one of these things all the time it comes with a kit you could buy on the kit from paint life Supply Co or you can buy it from unida's website it's a kit that includes the sander a bag and a lot of other abrasives it includes this little device right here too Sherry can you talk a little bit about this pad saver why it's so important yeah this pod saver is what keeps you from swirling your wood so anytime you're running a sheet good which is a conventional abrasive sheet we always have to put the Pod Saver in between and the reason being Chris is that if you don't have this pad saver what happens is the center panel will start to vibrate and it'll catch the sander and the sander will skip across the surface causing swirl marks so when you put the pad saver on it actually absorbs some of that and it allows it to move smoother unfortunately because of the sander you're still going to see a few swirl marks but it's going to lessen this a lot the other thing that the pad saver does is it saves your backup pad because pulling this on and off as you can see every time you pull this on and off it stretches out the hooks not only that we generate heat so the hooks will eventually straighten out right and that becomes a problem so the pad saver will actually prolong the life of your backup pad the hooks and you'll just be replacing the pad saver versus the side effects so it's interesting because when you told me that I instantly related to what you were talking about when it comes to the sand or walking this is what I typically did I would always tell somebody that didn't know how to use my sand Nerf as an employer or something you always got to put a pad saver on so you don't damage this which is probably