HD or Heavy Duty 25 feet long cords on RUPES orbital Polishers at Autogeek.com

[Mike Phillips]

HD or Heavy Duty 25 feet long cords on RUPES orbital Polishers at Autogeek.com


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.





Here's the HD cord plugged into the far wall





And here you can see it trailing along the floor to where nick is standing buffing on the old 2-door Chevy





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.






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.





Here's a few more pictures to give you perspective as to how much freedom a 25' cord gives you.










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.

[Mike Phillips]

NOTE RUPES orbital polishers with extended cords

RUPES polishers with pre-wired heavy duty cords that do not void the factory warranty are only available at Autogeek.com


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[Mike lambert]

Excellent idea, did that to my first Rupes when the original vinyl cord wore out. Makes it much more convenient!

[Mike Phillips]

Walking the talk....

I'm so glad I keep all my cool stuff from over the years... a picture tells a thousands words...


Here's looking into my office from outside in the hall





The wall of waxes





The top shelf inside the bookcase





My first rotary buffer





After it died I cut the existing 25' cord off at the end for display purposes. I also pass this around in all my 3-day Competition Ready Detailing Classes with a story to go with it. You that have attended my classes should remember.






Makita Model 9207SPC

This was one of the first variable speed rotary buffers on the market. Back when it was introduced it was the in my opinion the best rotary buffer option on the market. It has turned thousands of pads...

[dlc95]

Love it, Mike! Love hearing about the old days...

I wish I still had my old crappy Wen rotary. Sure it was a piece, but it was what I learned on. I know where it is though. I should see if I can get it back!

[Mike Phillips]

Love it, Mike! Love hearing about the old days...

My wife would tell you I have a bad memory

Probably true when it comes to normal life. But when it comes to our industry my memory is like a steel trap.

I could easily write a coffee table style book on our industry and back it up with pictures and artifacts to bring the story to life. There's other guys in our industry that know our history and its evolution but they don't hang out on forums, they don't write articles and they don't write books.

I have stories... Lots of them.

For example - the story behind the Meguiar's truck parked in front of my Makita rotary buffer.

[dlc95]

My wife would tell you I have a bad memory

Probably true when it comes to normal life. But when it comes to our industry my memory is like a steel trap.

I could easily write a coffee table style book on our industry and back it up with pictures and artifacts to bring the story to life. There's other guys in our industry that know our history and its evolution but they don't hang out on forums, they don't write articles and they don't write books.

I have stories... Lots of them.

For example - the story behind the Meguiar's truck parked in front of my Makita rotary buffer.

See?!?!

That's the stuff I'm a sucker for!

Even though the industry is evolving at such a fast pace, I still believe the history is just as fascinating.

[Mike Phillips]

See?!?!

That's the stuff I'm a sucker for!

Even though the industry is evolving at such a fast pace, I still believe the history is just as fascinating.

Well someday I might get around to writing a coffee table book on the history of car detailing.


Now back to HD cords on RUPES polishers - an Autogeek exclusive!

[2black1s]

I've still got an old monster, indestructible, Black and Decker rotary that I bought in the 1970s as my first polisher. The only plastic on it are the brush cap/covers on the sides and it weighs almost 13 lbs.! It's currently outfitted with a cord I stole from an old vacuum cleaner that's probably about 25 or 30 feet long.

I used that polisher up until a few years ago when I replaced it with a DeWalt 849 and relegated the B&D to other heavy duty projects as a slow speed grinder. It's still a brute!

I'd post a pic but it's at a friend's house where I just used it in the remodeling of his garage.