How to age new Silvers pad?

[TOOL MAN]

I add a few drops of used motor oil to my wife's coffee grinds and hand rub it into the pad. Then I leave it on a sun-drenched windowsill for at least a week. It'll get rid of that garish, Howard Johnson's orange and should be good for at least 3-5,000 miles!

[B. Dudley]

Here are two identical silvers pads. One is newly fitted, the other has about 2 years of normal use.