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CCS Spot Buffs 4 Inch Foam Pad Kit Free Bonus!

I purchased one to use on my Harley, After a summer of riding I get some swirls and light scratches and thought I would use this to polish it up with my Drill since it is small and I can get to the places I need to easily with this kit.

Thought? My intention is to try it on the rear fender under the seat first to make sure I dont mess up the paint and get my technique down with it.
 
dont use the drill, it will be the same as a rotary, and my guess also akward based on position... the bike is small enough to do by hand...

ive detailed an electraglide multiple times (rider used poor towels) and by hand it was never a challenge (using applicators with compounds)
 
A drill doesn't spin nearly fast enough to do any paint correction. Trust me, I have that setup and I've tried it with 4" orange pads and the drill adapter. You need a Porter Cable or some other high-rpm polisher to fix the scratches and swirls.

Maybe use a polish/wax combination that is designed to hide swirls and scratches such as a Duragloss product.
 
Yeah, I've got the spot buff pads. Use it with the drill adaptor for plastic lenses. You can get adaptors to fit the 2 3/4" backing plate on a PC or rotary too. Sounds perfect for a bike.
 
Emile said:
A drill doesn't spin nearly fast enough to do any paint correction. Trust me, I have that setup and I've tried it with 4" orange pads and the drill adapter. You need a Porter Cable or some other high-rpm polisher to fix the scratches and swirls.

Maybe use a polish/wax combination that is designed to hide swirls and scratches such as a Duragloss product.
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You can get much higher RPM's from a corded drill.
 
Emile said:
A drill doesn't spin nearly fast enough to do any paint correction. Trust me, I have that setup and I've tried it with 4" orange pads and the drill adapter. You need a Porter Cable or some other high-rpm polisher to fix the scratches and swirls.

Maybe use a polish/wax combination that is designed to hide swirls and scratches such as a Duragloss product.
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A drill like this that goes up to 1200 rpm's would work even better than a PC. Black & Decker at Lowe's: 18V Smart Select Cordless Drill
 
The Porter Cable's slowest speed is 2,500rpm, which is already more than double that of the Black & Decker unit. When I tried paint correction with a 4" Lake Country Orange pad, I was using my Craftsman 19.2V drill and it did almost nothing.
 
Emile said:
The Porter Cable's slowest speed is 2,500rpm, which is already more than double that of the Black & Decker unit. When I tried paint correction with a 4" Lake Country Orange pad, I was using my Craftsman 19.2V drill and it did almost nothing.
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Than why does a rotary at a speed as low as 1000rpm do more correction than a PC at 2500rpm as you say?

Ill tell you, a PC is a dual action or random orbit, it isnt on a fixed axle like a drill or rotary. Assuming you dont bog down the drill, and it stays at 1200rpm, it will correct more, better, and faster than a PC. Its just like a mini rotary.
 
A PC doesn't not do RPM's Its OPM's (orbits per min) major difference
 
I guarantee you that a cordless drill does not spin fast enough to do paint correction.
 
If a drill spins at 1200+rpm, and a rotary spins at 1200+rpm, how is the drill not fast enough?
 
You may find a drill that has enough rpm's. The problem is the positioning of the pad. More than likely you will have skipping and jumping because of the pad and angle of the drill motor. The only attachment I use on my drill is a wheel polisher. Other than that it's strickly used for drilling holes! HINT HINT!
 
Well I tried my Makita Drill last night with an orange 4" Spot Buff pad and PB SSR1 on an area under my seat that was scratched by the seat itself and worked really well. My drill is 1200 rpm and based on the instructions on Autogeek.net for using rotory/circular buffers the 1000 to 1500 rpm range is what I needed. Sorry no pictures. When I do the complete bike I will try to get some.

Mind you this bike is only 1 year old and only has some very very light swirls from washing so all I am doing is cleaning that up.

Thanks for the inputs !
 
I don't have CCS, but was one of the 1st to get the 4" Edge pads as a tester for Edge, still have them. Great for spot buffing, and really good for glass etc. I have an 4" orange cut, and soft blue one for polishing. I liked the blue with AIO on the PC to prep the paint, for some reason I liked using it more then by hand or a 6" pad.

But where it rocks, is using my soft blue one with some wax, I can do a vehicle in much less time than by hand, especially the truck, and get a nice thin even coat all around.
 
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