Oreck Orbiter VLM Cleaning

I have a full size low speed buffer . I noticed that bonnet pads are very expensive, would homade bath towel pads be good enough ?

Do the prices differ between hwe and vlm cleaning?

We accidentally damaged our Oreck cord at about the 20' mark. We cut it and put a new plug on it and also made a 10' extension cord out of the cut off piece. Anyway, 20' is a lot less cumbersome to deal with and is getting the job done just fine.