Thread: harbor freight bench buffer?

For buffing, one of the best investments you will make is a cut down plastic water bottle filled with clean water. Use it regularly. Also don’t bolt your buffer down. If you are moving your buffer, you are using too much pressure.

The slower buffers do generate less heat, or better said will generate heat slower, but if you quench regularly and use light pressure, it is not an issue. (Assuming you are using 4 inch wheels for the 3600 rpm buffers.)

Buy extra wheels, at least 2 for each grit or type of polish you will use, so while one is drying, the other is in use. Mark your wheels with a marker, as to what grit is on the wheel. A gang of 4 inch wheels fit nicely in a 12 inch plastic shoe box.

A cut down cereal box makes a nice splatter guard for applying compound.

I buy from Caswells, they have all that you will need, except the water bottle and the cereal box.