lol ya I'm done.... sooo I ended up canceling that order of the rupes .. pads ..polishes .. everything ..
But I ordered the Boss 21 .. with the 5 inch backing plate. a set of the 6.6 pads and a set of the 5.5 pads .. 5.5 interface pad and 6.5 interface pad for it as well. Almost everything I saw people actually like the Boss 21 more than the rupes. A lot say its just as smooth maybe smoother. Although a touch heavier and louder than the rupes, but I dont car much about that. Plus the lifetime warranty on the Boss 21. The Boss 21 has a 900 watt motor and the rupes has a 500. So hopefully it will be close. I think that this is going work out real well
RMarkJr,
Glad to see that you finally decided on a direction. I am a RUPES guy but I am sure the Boss Machine is a great machine also
In the end the machine means nothing, after watching videos and listening to podcast by Kevin Brown (aka Mr. Buff Daddy), Jason Rose, Mike Stoops and Larry Kosilla you learn quickly the machine means nothings at all. The key to detailing is
technique, after you master the
technique and learn how to
read the paint to understand what needs to be done to the paint to correct it you can use any machine on the market and get great results.
Some machines have more power then others this does nothing to the technique what it does is just speeds up the process of how quick you can perform the correction.
After you master Technique and learn how to read the paint then next thing is developing your process on how you are going to correct a certain situation and what products you are going to use.
Again there is a million products on the market and everyone is going to say one product is better than an-others, in the end it is what product is going to work for you and your technique.
I was listening to one of Larry's Podcast one time with Mike stoops and Kevin brown and Mike and Larry were talking about a student at one of there NXT classes and the student stated that he was having problems correcting the paint using X product with X machine etc. So Mike or Kevin (sorry can't remember which one) took the machine and tested it out with X product that the student was using and made it work perfectly. They showed the student and explained to him that it was not the product or the machine, it was there technique. They showed the student how to perfect there technique, and it took a while for the student to get it down, but when he did he learned it was all about technique and nothing else.
So my recommendation to you is work on technique. You now have a great machine. I don't know which products or pad you are using, nor does it really matter as long as you are using good quality products, it is all about technique, knowing how to read the paint,understanding what process works for whatever paint you are working on, doing test first on the paint to determine how aggressive you need to go to correct the problem at hand.
Sorry for the long winded message, and for repeating my self throughout this post, but as I continue to learn about detailing which all of us are constantly doing. I always go back to something I learned early in Engineering school, go back to the basics anytime you have a question on anything you do, the basics are what ground us and when you master the basics you can master anything.
Ken
. I am looking forward to trying this out ... but I have already done, my car, my girlfriends car, another backup car that we got. I pretty much out of cars with swirls or anything to try this out on lol. Family in town this weekend, I want to try it out on one of theirs but its raining of course and through the weekend. It driving me nuts not able to use it right now, like literally bugging me. ooooo if I can get ahold of my daughters new black car she just got that would be perfect.. it needs some work all over it to get the swirls out and some heavy rub marks on the driver door.