Mike Phillips
06-07-2016, 01:31 PM
HD or Heavy Duty 25 feet long cords on RUPES orbital Polishers at Autogeek.com (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/rupes-bigfoot-oribital-polishers/102107-hd-heavy-duty-25-feet-long-cords-rupes-orbital-polishers-autogeek-com.html)
Lead by example
When you come into my office, one of the first thing you'll see is my antique wax collection. Also on the shelves are a collection of tools that are very special to me. In the center cabinet, top shelf is my prized possession. It's the first rotary buffer I purchased and then used to buff out cars for over 20 years until the gears inside the head unit completely wore out. I fed myself and paid my bills with the rotary buffer.
If you look at the end of the tool you can see where I cut off the LAST extension cord I wired into the rotary buffer. Yes that's right. After the original cord wore out probably in the late 1980's instead of replacing or fixing the cord I wired in a heavy duty 25' extension cord.
That was then, this is now
This was way before the Internet was invented, before Autogeek existed and way before RUPES manufactured their line of BigFoot orbital polishers.
The reason I wired in a 25' extension cord was so that I could work faster since I wouldn't have to hassle with extension cords. It was both a time saver and a convenience.
I have no idea how many 25' extension cords I wore out over the years but I also detailed hundreds, and possibly thousands of cars with my trusty, dusty Makita rotary buffer.
Today, you can enjoy the same convenience and time savings by purchasing a RUPES orbital polisher with the correct wire gauge cord already wired in here by our in-house technician. Autogeek has the exclusive rights from RUPES to install these cords for the North American market and this is key, when you purchase your HD model from Autogeek you don't void the warranty. When purchasing tools that cost in the $300.00 to $450.00 dollar range you certainly don't want to void the warranty.
What does 25' look like?
As a visual display of just how long 25' is on a tool, here's Nick using an HD version of the RUPES BigFoot orbital poisher on one of my recent detailing projects. The RUPES polisher is plugged into the wall on the right hand side of the picture and it drapes across the floor all the way to where Nick is buffing with extra cord left over.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_01.jpg
Here's the HD cord plugged into the far wall
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_02.jpg
And here you can see it trailing along the floor to where nick is standing buffing on the old 2-door Chevy
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_03.jpg
Here's just the cord and you can see there's even cord coiled around meaning that there's still plenty of cord to enable him to reach all sides of the car. I had the owner park this in the center of the Show Car Garage becaue for the roof and hood I had to bring in a hydraulic lift and needed the room to drive the lift around the car.
It's easy to understand in the real world working on normal cars, if the car were parked close to the wall and thus close to the plug-in you could EASILY buff out BOTH SIDES of a car without the need for an extension cord. That's the convienence and the time savings factor.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_04.jpg
Here's two HD versions of the RUPES polishers. The one if the front is the HD version of the RUPES Mark II BigFoot 15 and behind it is the HD version of the RUPES Mark II BigFoot 21.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_05.jpg
Here's a few more pictures to give you perspective as to how much freedom a 25' cord gives you.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_06.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_07.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_08.jpg
Enthusiast Detailers
If you only detail your own cars the HD versions are a handy convienece plus you can take comfort knowing the correct gaue wire is used in the cord to prevent damage the electronics inside the RUPES polishers.
Professional Detailers
If you detail for money, then the time you save fiddling around with extension cords multiplied by every day you detail cars amounts to a lot of time savings - over time. And making a profit when detailing cars is in part affected by how much time you invest into each detail job.
:)
Lead by example
When you come into my office, one of the first thing you'll see is my antique wax collection. Also on the shelves are a collection of tools that are very special to me. In the center cabinet, top shelf is my prized possession. It's the first rotary buffer I purchased and then used to buff out cars for over 20 years until the gears inside the head unit completely wore out. I fed myself and paid my bills with the rotary buffer.
If you look at the end of the tool you can see where I cut off the LAST extension cord I wired into the rotary buffer. Yes that's right. After the original cord wore out probably in the late 1980's instead of replacing or fixing the cord I wired in a heavy duty 25' extension cord.
That was then, this is now
This was way before the Internet was invented, before Autogeek existed and way before RUPES manufactured their line of BigFoot orbital polishers.
The reason I wired in a 25' extension cord was so that I could work faster since I wouldn't have to hassle with extension cords. It was both a time saver and a convenience.
I have no idea how many 25' extension cords I wore out over the years but I also detailed hundreds, and possibly thousands of cars with my trusty, dusty Makita rotary buffer.
Today, you can enjoy the same convenience and time savings by purchasing a RUPES orbital polisher with the correct wire gauge cord already wired in here by our in-house technician. Autogeek has the exclusive rights from RUPES to install these cords for the North American market and this is key, when you purchase your HD model from Autogeek you don't void the warranty. When purchasing tools that cost in the $300.00 to $450.00 dollar range you certainly don't want to void the warranty.
What does 25' look like?
As a visual display of just how long 25' is on a tool, here's Nick using an HD version of the RUPES BigFoot orbital poisher on one of my recent detailing projects. The RUPES polisher is plugged into the wall on the right hand side of the picture and it drapes across the floor all the way to where Nick is buffing with extra cord left over.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_01.jpg
Here's the HD cord plugged into the far wall
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_02.jpg
And here you can see it trailing along the floor to where nick is standing buffing on the old 2-door Chevy
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_03.jpg
Here's just the cord and you can see there's even cord coiled around meaning that there's still plenty of cord to enable him to reach all sides of the car. I had the owner park this in the center of the Show Car Garage becaue for the roof and hood I had to bring in a hydraulic lift and needed the room to drive the lift around the car.
It's easy to understand in the real world working on normal cars, if the car were parked close to the wall and thus close to the plug-in you could EASILY buff out BOTH SIDES of a car without the need for an extension cord. That's the convienence and the time savings factor.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_04.jpg
Here's two HD versions of the RUPES polishers. The one if the front is the HD version of the RUPES Mark II BigFoot 15 and behind it is the HD version of the RUPES Mark II BigFoot 21.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_05.jpg
Here's a few more pictures to give you perspective as to how much freedom a 25' cord gives you.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_06.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_07.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/3109/HD_Cord_08.jpg
Enthusiast Detailers
If you only detail your own cars the HD versions are a handy convienece plus you can take comfort knowing the correct gaue wire is used in the cord to prevent damage the electronics inside the RUPES polishers.
Professional Detailers
If you detail for money, then the time you save fiddling around with extension cords multiplied by every day you detail cars amounts to a lot of time savings - over time. And making a profit when detailing cars is in part affected by how much time you invest into each detail job.
:)