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Thanks Randy.
At Joe, "You dont know what you are looking at" I think I already said that. And,
That was the most polite way anyone has ever told me to do it yourself !
Best of luck to you as well.

Go to Amazon.com and put variac in the search field. On the first page alone they run from $21 - 245.
and I have no knowledge of all this at all ! My background was Equity Trading Systems both...

So if you put 1 pully on the motor spindle and it goes to the same size pulley on your wheel, you accomplish nothing ? Is there a web site that has all the items one would need and with tech support ?

I dunno about VFD's sounds bad, you taking anything for it ? I'm glad I'm married :-)

I can buy a variac for a 3 amp motor for $30 - $50 which I should have bought the better motor that already...

Wont believe this but I could not even cut the end off with a hack saw. One tube is soft in the middle so I have that but the other two are hard as a rock so I am pitching them. Have enough time into...

Yes and that end in the water is hard as a rock. I couldn't cut it off with a knife. Will get a hack saw from the garage !

ABOUT 30 hours. When I gethome I will cut the end off

I have had one standing up in 4 inches of water and nothing, still hard as a rock. I'll try cutting the hard end off with a saw and put it back in the water.

At RegularJoe:
I wasn't challenging your statement. Sometimes I think out loud. Bad Habit !

Every time I try to save some $ it goes in my face. I bought three tubes 80, 120, 320, from a guy on EBAY. ( I bought the rest from Caswell) The EBAY guy said they have been refrigerated. Came hard...

It sucks up the water ?

Can Greaseless Compound that has gotten hard be salvaged ?

I havnt told her yet but she's aware of the Excessive Compulsive stuff :rofl2:

I think so ! I am happy for the Shaving Den Pictures ! I show them to my wife to see that I am not the only one!
She just looks, shakes her head, and walks away.:rock:

Really neat stuff. I'll look into it about 50-100 razors from now.

Im just happy to be getting my buffer and all the wheels and all the compounds. Have to open everything in the garage and haul...

Very nice but theylook like vintage pulleys. Are they ? Where did you acquire them?
Also look like way more $$ then I want to spend.
Outdoors is nice. I will be using a large cardboard box to catch...

@Bruno, My confusion was I thought the RPM's were based of the size Buffer you are buying. Like if you buy 6" buffer the RPM's were based on the diameter of the wheel. I now see that s not so and...

@mcpell
Thanks. I already bought 4 inch wheels there. I downloaded the file and read it through.

Im getting a spindle headache !

Well that formula is even easier to understand but maybe Im being dense because I am not sure it answers the question of the RPM's that the manufacturer of the Bench Buffer is giving you in the...

Formula math is not hard but...
If it says 3450 RPM with the 6 inch buffer I still would need to know if that 3450 is the RPM of the spindle or the 6 inch wheel. If it is of the spindle the I could...

HF has a cheap one with variable Speed and the customer reviews say Dont Buy It !. The only other Vaiable speed ones I saw were more then I wanted to spend. I am getting smaller wheels with the 3400...

Is there a dimmer switch for a buffer to reduce the 3400 RPM's ?