Yesterday I used several dremel felt pads (part no. 414) to put the finishing touches on a razor I'm restoring. I used one pad with the brown paste that comes with the polishing kit, a separate pad to apply Chromium oxide paste I'd picked up from SRD (originally bought for my pasted strop), and a third pad for a final polish after the blade had been cleaned.

My question is: can I reuse these felt pads and if so, what would be sufficient to ready them for another use? I would just designate the first pad as the brown paste pad, the second as the CrOx pad, and so on.

Or is the conventional wisdom to toss after each use?


p.s.

The CrOx really worked quite well; I love that I can use it for two purposes.

p.p.s.

I ran the dremel mostly at 5k rpm, and could barely detect any increase in temp. I tried it at 10k rpm a few times, and could detect only the slightest warming; out of caution I ran the blade under cold water. I don't see overheating as much of a threat at these speeds when you are dealing with a 0.5-inch felt buffing wheel.