What would your ultimate polisher arsenal be?

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My arsenal, will be ordering the Rupes LHR75 3" on Friday, absolutely in love with the 21. I've literally corrected and wax AIO an SUV in 25 minutes and my car in 20. Spending a few hours has amazing results now!


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Accumulator said:
Some sorta-random thoughts from a guy with quite a few polishers:

If I were starting from scratch today, I'd buy Cyclo and Rupes units (note that they're the same company these days).
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Didn't realize they were the same company. What Rupes would you pair with the Cyclo and why?
 
Texchappy said:
Didn't realize they were the same company. What Rupes would you pair with the Cyclo and why?
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As I understand it, Rupes recently bought out CycloToolmakers, who had picked up the Polisher business a while back from the original owners.

I'm no expert on Rupes, better ask somebody who knows what's-what. But I *think* I'd get their long-throw ("21") model and their little 3" job. Those three polishers would probably be my "start from scratch" approach if I were buying today.
 
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I'm on maybe my third car with this pad and I can already see the backing coming loose.. Anyone else have this happen?




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Problem is when I clean it, I have a hard time getting it dry enough so that it doesn't leave a hard haze that's super tough to buff off... once it dries out a bit it's OK.

Cleaning it every panel seems excessive
 
Your getting haze from too much product build up, not from cleaning it. If your waiting till half the car to clean it your overloading that pad horribly. You need to clean it every panel or get more pads. Most of us just have a ton of pads to cycle through, then clean them at the end. I have a minimum of 8 pads of each kind when doing a correction. If you plan on using more invasive techniques like kbm you might even need to clean more then once per panel. The only time you might get away with doing half a car on a pad is some super fine polish like 4500 or a glaze. Any compound thats impossible to do an that is why your getting more heat an thus faster delamination. Ive been there, clean, clean, clean or buy more.

Water is easy to remove, product is not. Just a thought.
 
Also, I've got that tough haze from using fg400 and eraser sometimes. I think its most likely due to not usings a coarse enough pad to break it (plus eraser being to gentle) down since its a dat. The rupes yellow always caused it but once I switched to green I was fine. Hope this helps.
 
Sorry, I meant the haze is hardest to remove when I first clean the pad and it has a lot of moisture in it, I suppose the answer to that would be to have a ton of pads and always use dry ones...


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As of right now, I have the following:

2 Rupes 21 DA
1 Zen Tool DA
1 Dewalt rotary
1 Meguiars MT300
1 Meguiars G110 v2
1 Harbor Freight DA

The Zen Tool, Dewalt and one of the Rupes are set up for 6" pads, the other Rupes and MT300 for 5" pads, the HF DA for 3-4" pads and the G110 v2 has a carpet brush attachment.
 
I think I already have mine.
DeWalt Rotary, Rupes Bigfoot 15ES HD and the handy PC 7424.

All work great and have their own uses.
 
I try to lurk first but I didn't see much mention of the PE14, wasn't this *the* rotary to get? I only have a PC now which can certainly get work done but if I ever wanted to get a business out of this I'd need something that could get work done much faster.
 
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