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I have a normal car polishing mop but I need something smaller for my motorcycle.
I'd like something I can hold with one hand and with 2" mop heads, maybe 1" too.
The paint on the bike doesn't really respond to hand polishing but machine polishes lovely. I just need something I can use on small parts/areas.
Needs to be electric, my compressor is small, noisy and on its way out.
I can find stuff that seems to fit the bill, but they are all £100-£200! That's more than I was hoping to spend. I had assumed there would be some cheap thing available for maybe £30-£50 that will do for the small amount of use it will get.
Is anyone aware of anything that might work?
I have cordless drills, dremels etc, but I'd like something with a 90° head like a normal polished if possible.
Thanks.
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Snap-on do a small surface finishing tool that is exactly what you are describing and only £1billion.
Aldidl have had a similar thing but sadly I think it is lucky dip as to when it comes back into stock and I just can't remember what they called it.
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Snap-on do a small surface finishing tool that is exactly what you are describing and only £1billion. Aldidl have had a similar thing but sadly I think it is lucky dip as to when it comes back into stock and I just can't remember what they called it. I'll keep my eyes peeled at Aldi. I'm surprised there isn't a slightly shonky cheap one available at machine mart etc. I found some more than I'd seen previously, but they are £400! Only want to polish a couple of square feet of paint, just on lots of awkward small parts. Might see about buying some small pads and either making something to put them on or bodving them onto something I already have. I guess worst case scenario I could put them in my cordless drill. |
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I bought an air-driven 3" polisher which takes (not surprisingly) 75mm foam pads, but I found that my compressor isn't up to running it with a firm foam on it, only medium and soft. I could probably get a photo of it, it just came from a stand at an autojumble (ah, I remember them) a few years back.
You can get 75mm backing pads for standard-sized polishers, but they were really expensive when I looked, so I bought a standard-sized one and cut it down. Not sure whether the body of the polisher might get in the way for your use - I'm doing fiddly bits on a car.
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I bought an air-driven 3" polisher which takes (not surprisingly) 75mm foam pads, but I found that my compressor isn't up to running it with a firm foam on it, only medium and soft. I could probably get a photo of it, it just came from a stand at an autojumble (ah, I remember them) a few years back. You can get 75mm backing pads for standard-sized polishers, but they were really expensive when I looked, so I bought a standard-sized one and cut it down. Not sure whether the body of the polisher might get in the way for your use - I'm doing fiddly bits on a car. Yeah, my polisher is too big, and heavy. It's old, Makita I think, about the size of a 9" grinder! It's very good, for cars. I'm looking at doing between ribs on mudguards, headlight brackets, things like that. So the body needs to be small too. I may buy an air one, they are cheap. Hopefully my compressor will run it with 1" and 2" pads. If not, at least I'll have the pads. My compressor is rubbish, although I did manage to paint my van with it. It was running constantly though 😂 It's probably cheaper to buy an air polisher and another compressor than a decent electric one! |
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Last Edit: Jun 5, 2021 17:47:41 GMT by VW
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Carbon Collective do a lovely ‘Nano’ polisher that fits the bill for you perfectly with both 1” and 2” heads in a variety of finishes to offer varying degrees of cut and polish. It’s around £230 which may seem expensive but is half the price of the Rupes Ibrid. I was using mine only yesterday to clean up the suspension strut casings that came back from the powder coater with some white surface contamination to the satin black. A green foam pad and some Meguiars scratchex and it was all successfully removed. Can’t imagine trying to do that by hand now.
If you look up Jim White of White details on you tube, he uses the same tool in his most recent video to do some paint correction in fiddly places on a couple of high end cars.
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