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    Hi, I am a newbie in machine polishing and contemplating on buying a polisher. I am a student on a tight budget so I am looking at the GG3.



    Does anybody have tried this and how does it perform?



    Does it also include:

    - lifetime warranty

    - backing plate

    - any pads?

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    if you are looking to buy your first DA, i highly recommend the GG6. if you purchase it from Griots right now, they have free shipping all through spring and not to mention they offer a lifetime warranty as well. if you buy the GG6, it comes standard with 6" DA backing plate and you can use 6.5" pads with it and i would also purchase both the 3.5" DA backing plate for use with 4" pads and 5" DA backing plate for use with 5.5" pads. if you don`t have enough right now, save up and buy it and you`ll be much happier in the long run. you won`t regret it!

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    I run both the 6 and 3 inch GG polishers and love them both. The 3 inch isnt something you want to use as a primary polisher. Its more for getting into tight areas, wetsanding, headlight restorations, etc. Follow the advise in the above post and you wont go wrong.



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    OKay, I will save up some money! However, GG6 is very expensive in Canada...

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    Quote Originally Posted by reyo
    OKay, I will save up some money! However, GG6 is very expensive in Canada...


    I`m quite confident you`ll consider it money well-spent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mrclean81
    I run both the 6 and 3 inch GG polishers and love them both. The 3 inch isnt something you want to use as a primary polisher. Its more for getting into tight areas, wetsanding, headlight restorations, etc. Follow the advise in the above post and you wont go wrong.



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    I`d be interested to know how you can use this to wet sand. I tried some 6" wet sanding discs on my UDM and I found they just suction cupped to the paint, wore out in about 15 seconds, and didn`t remove any of the scratches I was going for. Willing to try again if someone has tips here? I`ve been wet sanding my hands to death these days it seems...
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    3M makes some really good disks that work on these. I like to use the 3000 grit disks on the polisher as a final step before buffing and do the rougher paper by hand..Im not crazy about the idea of running 1500 by machine. I did a Ram not long ago and used 2 disks on the entire truck. Only thing to keep in mind is the 3M Hook It disks are the only ones that will work. Their Hook It 2 disks have a differant backing and wont work on the Griots.



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