Rotary School

Ern · 08-20-07, 01:13

Alright you masters. School me on the Rotary. Whats RO mode and I wanna know about wool pads and foamed wool. I have had a rotary in the past a makita 9227c but had to sell it really early of getting. I used it a little bit but not much and it was with foam pads.

Ern · 08-23-07, 06:48

Someone tell me about RO mode and wool. I want to invest into some wool pads. I was reading that alot of you guys use edge wool? Different colors?

kapinnn · 08-23-07, 08:19

Black wool is high cut, yellow is medium, green is light, blue is almost none, white is none.

Wool is beautiful, no skipping, cuts well, low heat.

Presta polishes go well with wool. UCC or UCCL go well with black and yellow, Chroma 1500 goes well with yellow and green. I use the blue rarely and I finish with foam. Usually Orange LC with SIP to remove the marring caused by the wool. Sometimes that will finish perfectly, other times I need to use LC white with 106FF.

I don't know what RO mode is... perhaps a funtion on some Rotaries? or is it the forced rotation that some DAs have? I have a Metabo Angle Polisher.

Ern · 08-23-07, 08:54

I was going to buy some of those pads but dont wanna buy something I wont need or use.

the other pc · 08-23-07, 09:50

RO is Random Orbit, which is different from rotary.

A rotary forces the pad to rotate around a central spindle.

On a random orbit machine the pad is not forced to rotate. It moves in small orbital arcs.

A dual-action random orbit machine (DA) allows the pad to spin freely around a spindle that is mounted offset form a motor driven spindle. This allows the pad to rotate as it orbits but it is not forced to rotate.

Some RO machines from Makita, Festool, Bosch, etc have two operating modes. They can be used as dual-action random orbit machines or locked into a forced orbit motion. The forced orbit is not the same a rotary but it’s aggressiveness is somewhere in between a rotary and a DA.

Although all rotaries I have seen operate only as rotaries, Dynabrade has a kit that converts a rotary to large DA by attaching a DA mechanism.

PC.

BigAl3 · 08-23-07, 02:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by the other pc

RO is Random Orbit, which is different from rotary.

A rotary forces the pad to rotate around a central spindle.

On a random orbit machine the pad is not forced to rotate. It moves in small orbital arcs.

A dual-action random orbit machine (DA) allows the pad to spin freely around a spindle that is mounted offset form a motor driven spindle. This allows the pad to rotate as it orbits but it is not forced to rotate.

Some RO machines from Makita, Festool, Bosch, etc have two operating modes. They can be used as dual-action random orbit machines or locked into a forced orbit motion. The forced orbit is not the same a rotary but it’s aggressiveness is somewhere in between a rotary and a DA.

Although all rotaries I have seen operate only as rotaries, Dynabrade has a kit that converts a rotary to large DA by attaching a DA mechanism.

PC.

paul, great illustration. this should be a sticky...

kapinnn · 08-23-07, 03:12

+1 to the illustration!