Buffer / polisher

[Rustbuket]

I know this has been brought up a million times on here , and many will say look it up, were tired of this type of question, so please bare with me. I do my own painting in my garage, yes it is not a clean garage, and I get dirt and bugs in my paint jobs, but my cars are no 100 point show cars, and will never be, I'm ok with that. after I wet sand and buff my cars out, I always have nasty buffer marks ( swirls ) I have a pic of one of my cars and you can see what I mean. After paint, I sand with 1500, then I use my Milwaukee 7"/9" polisher to buff , using Finess-it. Sorry for being so long winded . My Question is should I buy a lighter weight and more up to date polisher? I see some say buy a Harbor Freight. should I go with a kit , so everything works together ? I don't want to spend 1000 on it, but would be willing to spend around 300.00, what do some of you think?

[Rustbuket]

Looking at my pic you can't see the buffing marks.

[d33p]

First thing Id do is post way better pics.


Is that makita a rotary? Going with a DA like the harbor freight can clean it up the rotary buffer trails/holograms. I dont know how much clearcoat you are working with but for $300 you can get more than enough product.

Id get some nice pads, the harbor freight ones are kinda junk. LC flat pads will be the ones most recommend. m105/205 will be another people recommend but Im partial to Menzerna products.

[Rustbuket]

more pics. Milwaukee is a rotary.

[dlc95]

Good questions!

There are quite a few guys who will remove sanding marks with wool on a rotary/compound, and finish with a d/a and a polish like M205.

These days I do everything on an orbital, where I used to do everything on a rotary.

I used to be able to remove sanding marks with wool, and Meguiar's M02 Fine Cut Cleaner. I'd use the Meguiar's burgundy with M02 for general defect removal. I'd follow either of those with M09 Swirl Remover on a Yellow Meguiar's polishing pad.

There was one time where I had to move to M01 Medium Cut Cleaner..

[cardaddy]

Get the GG6 and never look back!

That along with 5½" pads can finish anything you'll run across. It can even remove wet sanding marks down to 1500 grit fairly easily. FWIW you can pick that puppy up from Advance Auto for under a hundred bucks (with the right coupon code).

[VISITOR]

Get the GG6 and never look back!

That along with 5½" pads can finish anything you'll run across. It can even remove wet sanding marks down to 1500 grit fairly easily. FWIW you can pick that puppy up from Advance Auto for under a hundred bucks (with the right coupon code).

or purchase it here...
Griots Garage 6 Inch Random Orbital Polisher

the GG6 is awesome!

[Rustbuket]

Tony. tried the advance auto way, with discounts got it down to 97.00 free shipping, But, they have none in stock, and will not let me order one. thanks for the info. those discounts would have paid off!

[dcjredline]

I agree with throw out the rotory (not really) and start with the GG6

[cardaddy]

or purchase it here...
Griots Garage 6 Inch Random Orbital Polisher

the GG6 is awesome!

Yeah... I suppose you can. (Providing you don't mind the extra 52 bucks.)

Tony. tried the advance auto way, with discounts got it down to 97.00 free shipping, But, they have none in stock, and will not let me order one. thanks for the info. those discounts would have paid off!

Well that's unfortunate!
I know it's worked before, even had guys tell me they've bought them that way as well.

Hopefully they'll get them back in stock, (never can have too many buffers).

Okay... so I just had a conversation with AAP. They don't have them in the warehouse now, BUT the SKU is still active. (That's a good thing.) Even had the guy give me yet another code to use (for when they DO come back in stock)! Although it's only 25% where the one I had is 30%.