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Today we invested in a Flex XC3401VRG at work and I love it! It's strong and powerful at low speed and you will have to have a strong set of wrists for this baby. We did an a-b test on a Peugeot Cab, polished one side with our Flex 602 and 3M Trizact 50077 Compound and the other side with this machine with the same deoxidizer. We asked one guy at the company who has been detailing for ten years if he could guess which side we had used the rotating machine on and he guessed wrong. Got a bottle of Meguiar's wax with it too.

Great bang for the buck and 900 watt of raw power. We're going to have a field day with this one.

EDIT: Me and the former detailer brought this baby out to try on some bad scratches on a BMW 330 Touring-06.....smooth as silk. I took scratches with this baby without any problems.
 
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Very nice machine, I'm still re-searching these machines but so far it's been all good. Funny though the shape of it is kinda like the Metabo. Interesting.

Thanks for sharing. Keep us posted on the machine and how it performs.
 
I have a Flex stone polisher. It's basically a rotary you can hook a hose up so the water cools the stone. It's takes pads with diamonds in them. You can also use it without water if you like. Nice machine!
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We love Flex, they are sturdy and strong. The excenter weighs 2,6 kilo and you know it's very well built. Before the spring really got out of hand-increasing sales as always plus some extra-we gave the 602's some love and with a minor service here and there they just keep on going.
 
The reason we bought it is because we are three or four guys at work some times and then you cannot go and wait for the other ones to finish their job in order to finish yours. The Top tool is one bad mother but so is the pricetag and I wasn't aware that Flex had this going until we stuck our heads into a local hardware shop for some other business. We found it and tried it out on a car they had in the corner. It was no big deal, we asked the boss if we could purchase that baby, got ok and went on buying it.
 
Gary Sword said:
I have a Flex stone polisher. It's basically a rotary you can hook a hose up so the water cools the stone. It's takes pads with diamonds in them. You can also use it without water if you like. Nice machine!
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Gary, where did you purchase your machine? I was under the inmpresion that these machines were not available in the US...oh and don't get me started about here in Canada.

Daniel, do you know if these machines are available in the US by any chance? Just wondering, I've only been re-searching the machine and haven't gotten tot he point of finding a dealer.
 
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Thanks for putting up the bigger picture, bro. Appreciate it!
 
Funny I was looking at the exact ame site, the Flex 3401 is a rotary right? Just making sure becuase they were comparing it to the PC?
 
So then I'm assuming that the Flex XC3401VRG is an orbital as well? Or is this the rotary version?
 
No, it's the new orbital, man. Gotta find pads for it.
 
Really an orbital? mmmm...interesting...so is there a rotary version?
 
Well, they have two polishers and you can Google Flex 602, that's the big mama but they haven't released an orbital before so this is news.
 
What a coincidence, I have been looking at these just a few days ago. I am very curious how it would work with pads that are not theirs (balance, vibration, and longevity of pad wise). Did you try it with anybody else's pads. If you did not could you please? And how much you paid for it?
 
Nica said:
Gary, where did you purchase your machine? I was under the inmpresion that these machines were not available in the US...oh and don't get me started about here in Canada.
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Nica, I got it on one of the online tool places in the US. I have had it a number of years and I don't remember which one I got it from. Do a Google search and compare prices. That's what I usually do.
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Gary Sword said:
Nica, I got it on one of the online tool places in the US. I have had it a number of years and I don't remember which one it use. Do a Google search and compare prices. That's what I usually do.
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Weird, the other day I called Flex and they told me it is not available till July or so.
 
ZoranC said:
What a coincidence, I have been looking at these just a few days ago. I am very curious how it would work with pads that are not theirs (balance, vibration, and longevity of pad wise). Did you try it with anybody else's pads. If you did not could you please? And how much you paid for it?
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Balance is right with a pad not too thick, it vibrates some so some CTS-gloves will be necessary. Flex pad was all ok, I took our standard blue 150 pad and put on and then you have to adjust in terms of balance.

We paid 3995 Swedish Kronor for it plus 25% vat.

If you want less vibration you must try Top Tool with 133 mm pads. Nothing beats that one but this was a good purchase as an allround machine.
 
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