Joshua312
04-23-2007, 04:37 PM
And I couldn`t be happier with the purchase, being the last week of classes and before leaving for a little vacation I don`t know how much time I`ll have to practice before I leave but I did pull it out of the packaging when I got home for about 10 minutes and pulled my mom`s van into the garage and did a panel :getdown SHHHH
I used a 5.25`` White CSS Polishing Pad and 3 dots of Optimum Polish on speed 3 and wooo did it work like a charm. I made 3-4 passes to remove the swirls and went probably 4 inches per second. I put hand up to the finish after working the area and it was a little warm, nothing extreme at all.
My first impressions of the rotary are wow, this thing is not as scary as I first thought. I guess when you hear 800 rpm, 1500 rpm it sounds fast (as dumb as that sounds) I never really could picture how fast this actually was on a machine. I started the Metabo on Speed 1 (what I am told is 800 rpm) and it is pretty slow, I think for now I feel most comfortable on Speeds not exceeding 3.
Handling wasn`t too bad either, a few times I found it was leading me rather than me leading the machine but that was only for a second until I got the hand of it. Tomorrow before class I plan on pulling the beater up to the garage and will take a short video clip of me using the Metabo so others can see what it is like and the results I achieve. Not promising anything magnificent as far as results but I`m going to try my best! :)
I used a 5.25`` White CSS Polishing Pad and 3 dots of Optimum Polish on speed 3 and wooo did it work like a charm. I made 3-4 passes to remove the swirls and went probably 4 inches per second. I put hand up to the finish after working the area and it was a little warm, nothing extreme at all.
My first impressions of the rotary are wow, this thing is not as scary as I first thought. I guess when you hear 800 rpm, 1500 rpm it sounds fast (as dumb as that sounds) I never really could picture how fast this actually was on a machine. I started the Metabo on Speed 1 (what I am told is 800 rpm) and it is pretty slow, I think for now I feel most comfortable on Speeds not exceeding 3.
Handling wasn`t too bad either, a few times I found it was leading me rather than me leading the machine but that was only for a second until I got the hand of it. Tomorrow before class I plan on pulling the beater up to the garage and will take a short video clip of me using the Metabo so others can see what it is like and the results I achieve. Not promising anything magnificent as far as results but I`m going to try my best! :)