Cyclo, what have I done?

WCD said:
Dude, shutting down?? was this a diabetic situation? That sounds serious and scary!!!

Hope all is well, Rob
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Yup, I think shutting down is best way to describe it because it definitely would not be fainting (no, I am not diabetic). One moment you are completely OK. Next moment your brain is not responding to things around you, it takes a while for what is happening around you to reach it, be processed, and reacted to, and for body to respond to that command. You are almost completely out brain/neural wise and your body wants to go out together with it and only reason why they are not completely out is because you are trying to stop that from happening because it has happened while I was driving on multi lane street in between SUVs and trucks in my small MR2. Still I almost failed to apply brakes timely and I did start going into other person's lane before managing to catch myself and correct.



So, yes scarry because it is not "normal". That's why I felt immediate ER visit is neccessary.



Thank you for the wishes.
 
Wait don't sell the PC ...Buy the Dewalt....Wait, Wait, sell the Dewalt... Buy the Fein .... no, no , no.

After 365 posts does one ever get it right ?
 
Wait don't sell the PC ...Buy the Dewalt....Wait, Wait, sell the Dewalt... Buy the Fein .... no, no , no.

After 357 posts does one ever get it right ?



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Changeling, I'm not sure if you've seen it yet or not, but Anthony Orosco just posted a thread with videos on wet-sanding and the final couple of videos show a Cyclo in action:



http://autopia.org/forum/machine-polishing/85720-wetsanding-video.html



If you already have a PC I would keep it if I were you and buy a 3.5" backing plate so you can use your 4" pads on it. The PCs aren't selling for that much and I find the 4" pads to work very well with a PC. You can never have too many power tools! ;)
 
I agree with Elliot and Scott! I would keep the pc, but if you want the cyclo then it is another great tool. I am buying one myself soon. Back ten years ago when I had one it was great and I lived it, but the pc can get into smaller areas better and do an excellent job! Tool decisions are tough!
 
ZoranC- Yikes, I sure hope you're OK.



Changeling- While you might have more $ tied up in this stuff than you'd prefer, just keep the PC for now, no sense in selling it at a big loss and then finding that you have a need for it later.



At this point I'll note that your situation seems to have expanded considerably from back when you first started posting about wanting to get your truck spruced up using the Klasse twins. You're getting pretty involved in this stuff, at least financially, and, well, if I'd known you were gonna get a number of polishers and be using stuff like the Finishing Polishes that we've discussed on other threads, my advice might've been different. At this point I think your best course of action is to put in some time working with the stuff you have....see how it goes. Who knows, you might not even *like* doing this stuff all that much, it's not everybody's idea of fun.



And all-in-all I don't think *not* having the rotary is a bad thing...it takes a bit of experience to run one without doing any damage, and you can practice with the Cyclo, which is somewhat rotary-like in its ergonomics.
 
Well as usual, I get great advise from all. There really is no big hurry right now to sell the PC so I'll hang on to it for awhile and I'm not worried about taking a big loss if any. I got good deals on everything I purchased. The 6.5 LC pads I bought for the PC can be used on a Rotary, so that is not a problem.



ZoranC, man I really hope everything gets straightened out, that sounds like a serious thing to happen, so don't take a GP's advise, ask for a specialist. GP's have there place but not in life threating situations! Having that happen in traffic could easily had you looking at the roots of a flower instead of the blossom, get my drift?



In regard to being a little short on funds, it's not actually that way. I pay all my bills, actually everything out of my checking account, I've never touched my savings in my life.

I am definitely a frugal person and rather enjoy locating the best price on everything I get, almost. Don't read that as cheap, that is definitely not me by any stretch of the imagination!

It is just that from mid January till present I couldn't turn around without some thing going wrong that ate $$$ ! Some of the things I couldn't tell you guys about because they were personnel situations.



Remember I said that my plumbing was backed up and the plumber fixed it yesterday morning (Mon), well I started washing cloths this morning and guess what, It wasn't fixed correctly "evidently" because I was allowed the privilege of cleaning up another overflow, not as bad as the first, but hells bells enough is enough. Plumber can't get back here till tomorrow morning (Wed)!!!! This crap gets old real fast!!!



Accumulator what can I say? I originally came to this site because I wanted information about cleaning my wheels, LOL !!

Before I forget I posted a question on another post about removing one of the rotarys on the Cyclo to allow it to get into tight places. Somewhere I read this was done but I don't know where are if it is even possible.



John, thanks for the link, I'm going there now.



Changeling
 
Eliot Ness said:
Changeling, I'm not sure if you've seen it yet or not, but Anthony Orosco just posted a thread with videos on wet-sanding and the final couple of videos show a Cyclo in action:



http://autopia.org/forum/machine-polishing/85720-wetsanding-video.html



If you already have a PC I would keep it if I were you and buy a 3.5" backing plate so you can use your 4" pads on it. The PCs aren't selling for that much and I find the 4" pads to work very well with a PC. You can never have too many power tools! ;)
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John, I just finished viewing the Anthony video. He is very well spoken and presents the task verbally better than most videos I have seen. I found this to be very informative, and I believe I am on the right track by doing the things described above.

Watching him use the Rotary and his commentary puts me at a lot more ease. I see he uses a Makita 9227C, I was wondering if this was from choice, cost, or what?



Thanks a lot for the link. It explained a lot.:xyxthumbs



Changeling
 
Changeling said:
John, I just finished viewing the Anthony video. He is very well spoken and presents the task verbally better than most videos I have seen. I found this to be very informative, and I believe I am on the right track by doing the things described above.

Watching him use the Rotary and his commentary puts me at a lot more ease. I see he uses a Makita 9227C, I was wondering if this was from choice, cost, or what?



Thanks a lot for the link. It explained a lot.:xyxthumbs



Changeling
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Actually Anthony also has a Metabo, and he has a couple of other video threads in this forum, and one where is is using it. I asked him In what situations he used the DeWalt over the Metabo and this was his reply: "I usually use the DeWalt for my heavy work like leveling and I use the Metabo for the finish out work as it's much lighter and easy to control plus I can decrease the RPM's below 1000."
 
Eliot Ness said:
Actually Anthony also has a Metabo, and he has a couple of other video threads in this forum, and one where is is using it. I asked him In what situations he used the DeWalt over the Metabo and this was his reply: "I usually use the DeWalt for my heavy work like leveling and I use the Metabo for the finish out work as it's much lighter and easy to control plus I can decrease the RPM's below 1000."
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Thanks John, I sure wish he (Anthony) would address this forum on his viewpoints of the Makita vs the Metabo, I have a feeling it would give a lot more "Light" to the whole situation on Rotarys.



Changeling
 
Changeling said:
ZoranC, man I really hope everything gets straightened out, that sounds like a serious thing to happen, so don't take a GP's advise, ask for a specialist.
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Exactly my train of thought, I don't feel their "diagnosis" of what happened makes sense, I will be following up on this, that's for sure.



Accumulator said:
Changeling - ... At this point I'll note that your situation seems to have expanded considerably from back when you first started posting about wanting to get your truck spruced up using the Klasse twins. You're getting pretty involved in this stuff, at least financially ... At this point I think your best course of action is to put in some time working with the stuff you have....see how it goes. ... And all-in-all I don't think *not* having the rotary is a bad thing...
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Changeling said:
Accumulator what can I say? I originally came to this site because I wanted information about cleaning my wheels, LOL !!
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Change, I second Accumulator's input. It's easy to get carried away and for things to snowball while we should stop for a while and master current level before proceeding to next level, if next level is needed at all.



Changeling said:
Before I forget I posted a question on another post about removing one of the rotarys on the Cyclo to allow it to get into tight places. Somewhere I read this was done but I don't know where are if it is even possible.
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Your question was answered in that thread yesterday.
 
Eliot Ness said:
Actually Anthony also has a Metabo, and he has a couple of other video threads in this forum, and one where is is using it. I asked him In what situations he used the DeWalt over the Metabo and this was his reply: "I usually use the DeWalt for my heavy work like leveling and I use the Metabo for the finish out work as it's much lighter and easy to control plus I can decrease the RPM's below 1000."
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Eliot, do you happen to know why he prefers DeWalt for heavy work? Is it because of RPM range?
 
ZoranC said:
Eliot, do you happen to know why he prefers DeWalt for heavy work? Is it because of RPM range?
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ZoranC, I remember asking him that a couple of years ago and this was his reply:



"The Metabo I like to set up as my final polish/finishing machine. It is very light and very easy to maneuver across the paint.



The DeWalt I like to set up for heavy cutting and mild polishing as I am able to "feather" the rpm's via the variable trigger. The Metabo basically has an on/off switch but is also variable in speed choice, from 700 rpm's to 2500. I usually do my final buffing at about 1200 to 1400 with either Optimum Polish or FPII and a blue LC pad.



The DeWalt has more torque at lower rpm's. So each has a strength where the other has a weakness so they make a nice balance."



Here is the link: http://autopia.org/forum/498983-post15.html



He also said this about the Metabo: "Metabo is an excellant tool. I would choose it over the DeWalt if I had to make that choice..... BUT ..... since I don't have to make that choice I have both."



I hope this helps, and hey, take care of yourself........ that's a pretty scary thing to happen, especially when driving!
 
If you guys are looking for cases, check out the ones at Lowe's used as tool cases. They are usually made of heavy duty plastic and come in a "LOT" of sizes/colors. I bought one a month or so ago to start holding "some" of my stuff for about $15 or so. It was made by Plano and is 22"x13.5x11", they even had bigger/smaller ones, plus it is basically water proof in case it gets rained/hosed on. It also stacks makes keeping stuff in order and convenient to carry.



Changeling
 
Changeling said:
If you guys are looking for cases, check out the ones at Lowe's used as tool cases.
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I definitely need to get a case if I don't want to keep getting annoyed and wasting time moving tools around. It was somewhat OK when it was just Cyclo but now with four tools it is getting even more in a way of focusing on the task at hand. That and I don't like boxes or bags or anything else that allows tool to move in them. I put Cyclo and PC in box, put box in vehicle, box doesn't move, but tools in it move. Accelerate. "Thud". Hitting each other and box. Crynge. Take a right turn. "Thud". Crynge. Take a left thurn. "Thud". Brake. "Thud". Do any maneuver people force you into. "Thud, thud, thud". Hit a pothole or dip or go over speed bump. Thuds up and down (or down and up). Repeat until you get to destination.



Hitting "usual suspects" to see what they have available first is exactly what I have in mind as I can't afford to spend budget on case by going with fancier solutions (like Pelican). I might look for just the "shell" of the right size and then take some shape forming foam to it.
 
ZoranC said:
I definitely need to get a case if I don't want to keep getting annoyed and wasting time moving tools around. It was somewhat OK when it was just Cyclo but now with four tools it is getting even more in a way of focusing on the task at hand. That and I don't like boxes or bags or anything else that allows tool to move in them. I put Cyclo and PC in box, put box in vehicle, box doesn't move, but tools in it move. Accelerate. "Thud". Hitting each other and box. Crynge. Take a right turn. "Thud". Crynge. Take a left thurn. "Thud". Brake. "Thud". Do any maneuver people force you into. "Thud, thud, thud". Hit a pothole or dip or go over speed bump. Thuds up and down (or down and up). Repeat until you get to destination.



Hitting "usual suspects" to see what they have available first is exactly what I have in mind as I can't afford to spend budget on case by going with fancier solutions (like Pelican). I might look for just the "shell" of the right size and then take some shape forming foam to it.
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ZoranC, that is what I'm trying to get across to everyone. You can get the boxes I described from Lowe's. You could have your power tools in one, pads, towels, in another and say some secondary bottles of Polish, wax, sealants, etc in a third. For away jobs it would be a snap to pick up say Box 1,2, and 3, knowing you haven't left anything behind !



The large containers (gallons , box's, whatever can stay in the garage, basement, whatever.



As for the clunking around just stuff some zip locked bags of towels in the right places, or some of the orange hand towels for cleaning your hands, etc. What is the Autopian saying, you can never have to many towels!!:chuckle:



It's just the plan I'm following. I have no intention of buying a Pelican case. They are great cases but wait till you price them, and what would you gain?

Changeling
 
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