After sanding with 2000 - I started buffing out my clear coat with 3M micro fine rubbing compound using a 3M 100% wool compunding pad (#05719) and it is shedding ALL over the place... It looks like a WOOL farm in my garage!!!!! Is there any way to perform some procedure/trick to keep this from being SO bad??? Maybe a prewash and dry would get rid of MOST of the flying fur..... Is this everyone's experience with a new buffing pad?

Is it the pad that came with your buffer, perhaps??? I know that the cheap pad that comes with the Harbor Freight buffers are different degrees of okay to horrible. The 3M ones I get from my jobber are great and really hardly shed at all. Even the ones we use in furniture polishing in our business hardly shed at all.

I agree about the HF buffing pad that came with the buffer - garbage fodder. I got this one from my auto paint supply - it's a 3M 100% wool compounding pad (#05719). "Fur flyer" it's it's new nickname.

Really strange??? Bad sheep? Can wool pads have some type of "shelf life?" Anybody??????

is the speed too high?

I have not used a wool pad in over 10 years. Foam is the way to go. There are different pads for the various stages of buffing. They also do not create the heat that a wool pad does. Try one and you will love it.