Bought a Dewalt 849X. Seeking pad advice.

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chrisguga

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I've always wanted a rotary polisher and after a few years with my trusty Porter Cable, I took the plunge.



I'll use my current compounds and polishes with it... M101, M105, M205, HD Cut, HD Polish, HD UNO, etc.



I plan on buying 2 wool, 2 foam cutting, and 2 foam polishing/burnishing pads to start out with. The polisher comes with a backing plate designed for 7 inch pads and I don't currently have any this large.



I hear good things aBout Meg's solo wool pad, burgundy foam cutting pad, and I love Buff N Shine pads. Thoughts on these?



I have access to a Dodge Ram work truck in torch red to use for a test mule and it has so much damage the owner wouldn't even know if I burned through the paint. lol
 
Except for wool, I prefer the smaller 6.5" pads or even 6" pads on a rotary. Using larger pads on a boat, RV or large panels is great, but on a standard car, truck or SUV, the smaller pads are better for the breaks an curves.
 
I have heard that the LC Kompressor pads are great on rotaries. Never tried them only heard. I have a smaller BP on my 849 and run the same pads i do in my PC. All though i do have the Meg Soft Buff line in the 7" size. That foam burgady pad i have used to remove 800 grit sanding marks with on my 849.



Anyways to get back to your question since you already have pads for you PC just get a BP for the 849 and use same pads
 
Keep_it_clean, that's actually a really good idea. If those burgundy pads cut that hard, I may not even bother with wool. I have a variety of 5.5 inch buff n shine pads that I'll use for the finishing and I'll go for some big and small burgundy pads for cutting various panels.



I need to look into those Kompressor pads too.



Thanks for the advice so far. Learning the rotary is exactly what I needed to keep polishing paint fresh and new for me.
 
I'm pretty impatient and already ordered 2 of each:



Meg's solo wool 7" pads

Meg's burgundy 7" pads

Meg's polishing 7" pads

Meg's finishing 7" pads



And a 5" Meg's rotary backing plate so I can use all of my 5.5" Buff N Shine pads. I also pre-ordered some M100 since it's designed for rotary wool use and I have half a quart of M101 which is designed for rotary foam use.



I should have it covered.
 
here is the 800grit disc

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sanded down

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after Megs Burgandy cutting pad and Hi-Temps Magnum357

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now the compound says it can remove 800 grit which is only reason i used 800grit disc. so has you can see matched with the right compound the Megs burgandy pad will cut
 
Good grief, I didn't think a foam pad could cut like that.



How does the cut of Magnum357 compare to M101?



I'm so glad the days of having to compound a hammered panel 3-5 different sets with my Porter Cable to get a defect free finish are over.



I don't take many detailing jobs nowadays because I'm so busy with my full-time job and life in general, but the jobs I do take usually involved hammered cars for friends or friends of friends and there's just no money in spending 20 hours on just the polishing to get the paint looking right. I quote them a price where I might make $10 an hour if I'm lucky, but any higher price than that and they don't think it's worth it. I could make 4x the money picking up some extra hours at my regular job. Hopefully this rotary will allow me to correct hammered cars in a more reasonable amount of time and actually make reasonable profit to go along with the joy of detailing. I love turning these cars around and the stunned look on the owner's faces, but life's too short to detail for peanuts.



Thanks for the help, all!
 
I really like the LC Waffle Pro pads on my 849X. They make it so much easier to control compared to when using flat pads.
 
Joe@Superior Shine said:
I run only Meguiars W5000 on my rotary.
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Im like this old man here.:becky: I use wool only now on rotory. It cuts cooler then foam and is really nice for cutting. I use a pad similer to the Megs Joe suggested. I love the center mount screw on. Pad is always balanced.
 
Barry Theal said:
Im like this old man here.:becky: I use wool only now on rotory. It cuts cooler then foam and is really nice for cutting. I use a pad similer to the Megs Joe suggested. I love the center mount screw on. Pad is always balanced.
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I am the same way. Wool and the like just does not translate the heat like foam does. Especially on composite and other types of body material.
 
I am going to look into the self centering pads. I'm finding that centering the pad is crucial and a pain in the rear. The waffle pads sound good too because the flat pads, particularly the stiff crimson pad, walk all over the place.



I still haven't tried the wool pad on the rotary. I haven't had a chance to do any polishing on a hammered car lately. Now I'm really looking forward to trying it out.



On a tangent, I'm really liking UNO. I used to think it was a so so product just off of what others said, but I found it really can level some defects with a polishing pad on the rotary and can finish well when you back the rps down to 1200 and then 800 for a few passes. HD Cut worked well for me too and didn't have any issues coming off of fairly soft Nissan paint.
 
chrisguga said:
I am going to look into the self centering pads. I'm finding that centering the pad is crucial and a pain in the rear. The waffle pads sound good too because the flat pads, particularly the stiff crimson pad, walk all over the place.



I still haven't tried the wool pad on the rotary. I haven't had a chance to do any polishing on a hammered car lately. Now I'm really looking forward to trying it out.



On a tangent, I'm really liking UNO. I used to think it was a so so product just off of what others said, but I found it really can level some defects with a polishing pad on the rotary and can finish well when you back the rps down to 1200 and then 800 for a few passes. HD Cut worked well for me too and didn't have any issues coming off of fairly soft Nissan paint.
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I'm going to recommend you the hd black wool pad a.k.a tufbuf wool pad..it cuts really well and doesn't shed from brand new condition..all wool pads i've tried shed like crazy except this one and lake country pfw... all i use for rotary are waffles and hd black...
 
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