Quote Originally Posted by zoama585 View Post
He never specifies, but he talks about cleaning aluminum with a scotch brite pad and then talks about cutting a piece of scotch brite pad to use as a diffuser. He uses it on mig guns as well, reducing gas usage by 5 cfm.
Quote Originally Posted by Rambozo View Post
Scotch brite has become a sort of generic term for the fiber abrasive pads made by 3M as well as other companies. Few of the consumer products that bear that name are what you are looking for. Any good general hardware store will have several grades of plain scotch brite pads about 1/4" thick. I think there are plain consumer pads, but most are bonded to sponges or plastic handles and are not what you are after.
Here are examples of the plain pads.
http://www.mcmaster.com/#3m-scotchbr...e-pads/=i0vxhi
But anything even close to that will work as you are not using it for it's abrasive qualities.
Thanks guys. I did do a google and found one instance where someone said they used the white scotchbrite. Interesting concept as the fibers aren't uniformly manufactured. Cheers!