1992 Jeep Cherokee

[nick19]

Looks great! How'd the Metabo perform?


One thing Nica, a little too much product. Two quarter sized dots on the pad is about all you need.

[Nuke33]

u did have your work cut out for you haha

[Nica]

Nick,

The Metabo works great, it's a kick ass machine. I really like the soft start, this helps on the splatter. Now as for the polish, yea I think I used to much on the picture but I wanted to try what Toto was talking about..the priming the pad. Well I thought it was like that, the thing with just putting to dots like you say is that it's not enough polish. The thing with the rotary is that you need more product/polish to keep the pad from drying up on you...well that's what I've noticed. I tried it both ways, one area with just like you suggested and the other way just like how you saw the picture. I found that the one with using lots of products works good, just because there is not dusting and keeps the pad from drying up.

Well like I said I'm just experimenting with the rotary, for now I'm going with trial and error and I'm hoping members will share there knowledge on the rotary and I'll take any info I can get.

But the Metabo is well worth the price my friend, feels like a glove on your hands...every curve of the Metabo is where it's supposed to be. Really nice, when you get yours you will understand.

[nick19]

Originally Posted by Nica

Nick,

The Metabo works great, it's a kick ass machine. I really like the soft start, this helps on the splatter. Now as for the polish, yea I think I used to much on the picture but I wanted to try what Toto was talking about..the priming the pad. Well I thought it was like that, the thing with just putting to dots like you say is that it's not enough polish. The thing with the rotary is that you need more product/polish to keep the pad from drying up on you...well that's what I've noticed. I tried it both ways, one area with just like you suggested and the other way just like how you saw the picture. I found that the one with using lots of products works good, just because there is not dusting and keeps the pad from drying up.

Well like I said I'm just experimenting with the rotary, for now I'm going with trial and error and I'm hoping members will share there knowledge on the rotary and I'll take any info I can get.

But the Metabo is well worth the price my friend, feels like a glove on your hands...every curve of the Metabo is where it's supposed to be. Really nice, when you get yours you will understand.

Yeah, you probably can add a little more than a quarter.. I don't have very much experience with a rotary, just from what Mike Phillips taught us. I have a lot of reading to do when I can FINALLY get my hands on a Metabo.

[orngez]

on the rotary in never hurts to use a little extra polish..dry buffing is very unforgiving on a rotary compared to a pc...NEVER dry buff with a rotary..always follow procedure and properly spread out product on the surface you are working on...on plastic parts and tight areas the slower/est setting is what I often use...another tip...I often see when people new to the rotary use slower speeds they tend to press down harder...at slower speeds its easier to want to focus on the work surface rather than the presure you are applying as the rotary doesnt feel as "dangerous" at a slower speed...at slower speeds it is harder to "float" the pad across the surface...so just be mindfull to focus on the pad....as far as speed is concerned..i would never really see a reason to go past setting 3...i would encourage you to stay at speed 2 or lower...it may take a little longer to correct the paint..but as I'm sure you saw with the rotary that would equate into maybe an extra 15 seconds

[supercharged]

What an amazing difference! Great job!

[Nica]

Originally Posted by nick19

Yeah, you probably can add a little more than a quarter.. I don't have very much experience with a rotary, just from what Mike Phillips taught us. I have a lot of reading to do when I can FINALLY get my hands on a Metabo.

Hey nick,

I just found out that when using a rotary you need polish with oils such as Optimum. I met up with CalgaryDetail today and he shared lots of information with me and he gave a sample of Optimum and yes with Optimum I can use what you recommended (quarter amount of polish). I just felt that with XMT it was drying up to fast. I don't know if XMT was made for a rotary...but then a gain what do I know I'm just getting my feet wet with the rotary.

orngez, I totally agree with you about the settings. I too, don't see a need to go past dial number 3.

Thank you all for the feed back.

[Truls]

A rotary brakes down a polish way faster than a DA, meguiars MG series got some good Products for rotary.

Great work for a "first timer" and its great to have a car to do test runs on.

How was that rotary to hold? mine wants to "run" away, and its often hard to keep stable on the car.

[ltoman]

Wow, Nica, you're the man! i don't think i will EVER attempt to use one of those! great job. it is nice to see your tape did not get in the way!
gopsh you weren't kidding about rust spots everywhere. Can't you fix them somehow?

[Surfer]

Beater is right, look at that last pic, he's making the Lex jealous. Yeh Jeeps inline 6 is robust, that truck will fall apart before the engine does lol. Nice job for 1st time with rotary...now go practice on the Lex