polishing aluminum with high speed polisher

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I don't want to spend the extra money to buy a bench polisher because I can use my Makita high speed polisher. What do I need to attach a buffer wheel to the Makita polisher?
I have some rock hard jewelers rouge.
Will two buffing wheels, one for cutting and one for polishing, be enough?
Thanks
 
bcgreen said:
I don't want to spend the extra money to buy a bench polisher because I can use my Makita high speed polisher. What do I need to attach a buffer wheel to the Makita polisher?
I have some rock hard jewelers rouge.
Will two buffing wheels, one for cutting and one for polishing, be enough?
Thanks
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I used to talk to a bcgreen on MOL?


I've placed my Makita Rotary Buffer in a vice before kind of turning it into a bench grinder/polisher. Have a sturdy work bench that holds your vice.


A couple of wool pads, one cutting and one polishing should do the job.


Since this is your first post,

Welcome to AutogeekOnline!


:welcome:
 
Thanks Mike, yes that's me from MOL. The buffing wheels look like cotton type and not wool. If I am going to buff out aluminum or steel, I don't think wool would last very long. As I understand it you have to start out with sand paper and then use the buffing wheels with different rouge.
I am just asking what do I need to adapt the buffing wheel to fit my Mikata?
Thanks
(miss your 'What's in your garage' episodes)
 
bcgreen said:
Thanks Mike, yes that's me from MOL.
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Good to see hear from you again...



bcgreen said:
The buffing wheels look like cotton type and not wool.

I am just asking what do I need to adapt the buffing wheel to fit my Mikata?
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I know exactly what they look like I think they are NOT threaded but held on to the shaft of a bench grinder via special flat steel washers tightened down with large steel nuts.

To use one on a rotary buffer you might have to get creative with a few trips to the local nut and bolt supply store and possibly use some type of tube insert around the threads of the spindle and inside the fitting on the cotton buffing pads. That plus a thin 5/8"s thin nut to tread down on the rotary buffer first, then a flat washer, then the cotton buffing pad, then a washer and then another 5/8" thread nut.

Just a guess without having any of this in front of me...


bcgreen said:
(miss your 'What's in your garage' episodes)
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The second season was more fun than the first season but we really had a lot of thing working against us. We're not done yet though...

:D
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
Good to see hear from you again...





I know exactly what they look like I think they are NOT threaded but held on to the shaft of a bench grinder via special flat steel washers tightened down with large steel nuts.

To use one on a rotary buffer you might have to get creative with a few trips to the local nut and bolt supply store and possibly use some type of tube insert around the threads of the spindle and inside the fitting on the cotton buffing pads. That plus a thin 5/8"s thin nut to tread down on the rotary buffer first, then a flat washer, then the cotton buffing pad, then a washer and then another 5/8" thread nut.

Just a guess without having any of this in front of me...





The second season was more fun than the first season but we really had a lot of thing working against us. We're not done yet though...

:D
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Thanks, Mike, for all the valuable info. I think I will run with it.
 
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