Thread: Greaseless polishing compound?

Most of the Baldor’s,(top of the line), run at 1700, Harbor Freight sells a 6 inch buffer that many of us have that sell for around 30 bucks, and runs at 3400 rpm. I have both and a no name buffer, that also runs at 3400. All 3 perform exactly the same. Baldor’s are about 10 times the cost of a HF.

Use 4 inch wheels and you will be fine. HF sells a cast iron stand, on sale for about $30, that I have thought about picking up, but I always seem to need, to put something down near the buffer, so I use a workbench.

I cover it and the back stop in cardboard and just vacuum the mess, (polishing dust). I made a splatter guard from a cereal box that contains, the spin off, when loading the wheels, there is a post on it somewhere, there are tons of buffing post.

As said Castwell is the go to for supplies. I mostly use 600 and 400 greaseless, though I have all the grits, I do use various greased compounds. Do buy quality wheels.

Name brand quality compounds are not much more, so I buy the name brand, and they come in larger sticks so are really cheaper, in the long run.

As said there is a learning curve, so be careful. I remove the edge off any blade with a diamond file, that I work on, especially buffing.