Griot's Random Orbital Polisher

[karburn]

My new 6" HD Griot's unit arrived a couple of days ago. I took it out of the box tonight and plugged it in, just to make sure that it powered up and worked OK. One question: when the unit is off, the backing plate rotates freely. Is this normal? I don't remember my old Griot's polisher doing this. I want to make sure the pad rotates when going full tilt, but I have not had time to test that yet. If it's supposed to spin, fine. But there were no instructions as to the removal/replacement of the backing plate.

Your help is appreciated as always!!

PS: That 25' cord is going to be REALLY nice. Great idea.

[Mike Phillips]

One question: when the unit is off, the backing plate rotates freely. Is this normal?

Yes.

Just by coincidence, I just buffed out the front clip of my Jimmy using XMT 360 with an orange cutting pad on the Griot's ROP. Came out nice and shiny.

[karburn]

Workin' late tonight, huh? Thanks for the quick reply. I may end up in the garage yet!

[Mike Phillips]

Workin' late tonight, huh? Thanks for the quick reply. I may end up in the garage yet!

Here's a tip...

Don't wrap the cord around the polisher to store it, take the little bit of extra time to simply coil it up using a nice, large circular loop, this will keep it from getting twisted and horrible to use.

[agpatel]

Here's a tip...

Don't wrap the cord around the polisher to store it, take the little bit of extra time to simply coil it up using a nice, large circular loop, this will keep it from getting twisted and horrible to use.

If you can get your hands on a old spool for ethernet cable or some other cable that comes on a cardboard spool that works great. That is what I wrap up my 25 ft extension cord on so it does turn into a mess.

[Buckskincolt]

Yes.

Just by coincidence, I just buffed out the front clip of my Jimmy using XMT 360 with an orange cutting pad on the Griot's ROP. Came out nice and shiny.

Mike you going to do a write up and some before and afters on this?

[2003 GMC Denali]

Workin' late tonight, huh?

I would too, if I had the AG Building as a Shop Bay

[nava222]

As i'm still beginner. Can this Griot's compare to the Flex3401?

[Mike Phillips]

Mike you going to do a write up and some before and afters on this?

Going to try. Haven't buffed the truck out since before June so it's pretty rough by most peoples standards. It's not a great paint job to start with but it's new paint so it's staying put. I bought this off eBay about 2 years ago and it was a good deal but the paint is whatever was sprayed before I bought it so that's out of my control.

Believe it or not, it's single stage enamel.

As i'm still beginner. Can this Griot's compare to the Flex3401?

It compares in that they are both machines and working by machine is always faster than working by hand but they're really different kinds of tools.

See my comments about the Flex 3401 in post #10 of this thread,

1957 Chevrolet Belair Extreme Makeover - Flex 3401 & Wolfgang Smackdown!

[nava222]

Going to try. Haven't buffed the truck out since before June so it's pretty rough by most peoples standards. It's not a great paint job to start with but it's new paint so it's staying put. I bought this off eBay about 2 years ago and it was a good deal but the paint is whatever was sprayed before I bought it so that's out of my control.

Believe it or not, it's single stage enamel.




It compares in that they are both machines and working by machine is always faster than working by hand but they're really different kinds of tools.

See my comments about the Flex 3401 in post #10 of this thread,

1957 Chevrolet Belair Extreme Makeover - Flex 3401 & Wolfgang Smackdown!

I've been following most your write up since you're at autogeek, but as a newbie i also want the BETTER job not the EASIER one as i think that i can learn through and gain my experience and advise through autogeek. So i'm a bit on the Flex and without the price factor, what do you suggest???