I just purchased a Makita 9227 a few weeks ago
The Makita is also an excellent choice and you're typing to someone that fed himself for years using a Makita Rotary Buffer. In fact I used it so much over the years that I wore the rough, sand cast textured housing smooth like a piece of chrome and at the end of some days I would be cut open in two places on my hand from rubbing against the rough aluminum.
I have been reading for the last month since I found AGO and MOL.
Read MANY of your articles, thank you! Extremely informative and really improved my rotary skills alone. I used to get spatter EVERYWHERE. Learned the 10 @ 10 technique and I get practically zero now!
It's personally very rewarding to read things like what you wrote. I'm a
long copy writer by nature and it's truly a curse. But I try to be very exact, thorough and detailed even though there are some that would rather I posted one-liners...
So thank you for the kind words... you made my day!
Meguiars Ultimate Compound, M105 Ultra Cut Compound, M205 Ultra Finishing Polish
Meguiars M02 Fine Cut Cleaner ( # 2 ), M03 Machine Glaze ( # 3 ), M09 Swirl Remover 2.0 ( # 9 )
Use up the #2 and #9 and then switch over to Menzerna Polishes you'll love them. Wolfgang TSR and FG are Menzerna products and you get the same great results.
Our last two classes focused on using Wolfgang and Pinnacle and even guys I know that have been buffing with Megs and 3M for years were impressed by how well both these line of products worked and finished out...
Meguiar's makes good products but there are other good options also... Optimum Hyper Compound and Polish, Mother's Professional Line is actually pretty good...
At this time, M105 is the compound to beat but I know from testing others are catching up as I've played with the lab samples...
Meguiars W65 Rotary backing plate / W7000, 8000 and 9000 foam pads
If you like Megs foam pads switch over the 7" Softbuff pads, better overall size for most cars...
Meguiars W5000 double sided wool pad ( w/ Buff & Shine Rotary Buffer Extension for 5/8" Spindle # 1400 )
I know guys that love the doubles side wool pads and guys that hate them I'm in the first camp, they work great for heavy cutting, same for the Optimum double sided wool pad and the optimum double sided foam pads.
Porter Cable 7336 Dual Action Polisher
Personally buffed out thousands of cars using first gen PC's and they get the job done but sometime down the road upgrade to either the newer XP version or the GG DA Polisher.
I like the
build quality of the PC better than the GG but the GG for all practical purposes is a
safe version of a rotary buffer because using common sense pressure you cannot stop the pad from rotating.
Read the above carefully as here's what that means...
If you cannot stop the pad from rotating... it's basically working like a rotary buffer... BUT if needed... you can stop the pad from rotating or a better way to say that is in a risk situation, the pad can be stopped.
It's not as powerful as a rotary buffer especially when working on
curved panels, no where near as efficient, but for flat work... it's got the power.
Buff & Shine Wool Pad Buffing Spur # 1600
The Edge Foam Pad Conditioning Brush
Both are essential tools if you do a lot of buffing with a rotary buffer. The goal with your steel spur is to use it enough to get it to the point where it no longer stains your wool fibers grayish as you use it. I have two very old spurs that are "seasoned" and you couldn't pry them out of my cold, dead fingers...