Brian,
The old hood is a great idea. You should let him watch you and then you can watch him correcting him until his technique is very close to your own.
The basics as you know are:
Keep the cord up over your shoulder off the surface and away from thr buffer.
Apply minimal pressure as the weight of the machine is plenty.
Spread the product with the machine off.
Feather the trigger a few times to further spread the product over the 2x2 area.
Then work the product with stretched out figure 8's from front to back then side to side keeping the buffer as flat as possible i.e. about a 5-10degree tilt and focus most of your attention on the 12o'clock and 3 o'clock position.
Take some of the weight off the machine for the final passes.
Don't use speeds greater than 1500rpm's.
Keep the buffer moving at all times.
Don't dry buff.
That's about it the rest is just getting use to the power. Good luck!
