Thread: Had an old shoe buffer, wanted a bench buffer...

It hasn't gotten much of a workout yet; it does stop with any more than medium pressure. I have since picked up a harbor freight buffer and a few wheels, I'll finally have some time tomorrow to use both of them a bit more. Now to find an empty cereal box around here somewhere...

I like the way you think

Originally Posted by spazola

I like the way you think

Says the guy with a bowling ball vise!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Says the guy with a bowling ball vise!

Coming from the man a drill chuck mounted on a rocker stud, mounted on a stick.

I think you three are all a little inventive and I’d be pleased to share a coil of crab wire with you.
The shoe buffer convention is interesting. It may not have the power for serious buffing but it is likely going to be good for polishing scales and perhaps putting the final whammy on blades.

That stick is a 73 CZ 250 fork tube, filled with sand. I rest my feet on a Jeep spring shackle.
Hunk of steel!

Which would you have to make life easier? ....A fork tube peening anvil, drill-chuck removed.



Or with the chuck..


OR, had you rather a bowling ball vise?





You cannot have both!

Originally Posted by RezDog

I think you three are all a little inventive and I’d be pleased to share a coil of crab wire with you.
The shoe buffer convention is interesting. It may not have the power for serious buffing but it is likely going to be good for polishing scales and perhaps putting the final whammy on blades.

Well, it seems with buffing, less is best?


Err, wots a coil of crab wire, Rez?

I do like to buff scales at low speed. I have two actual buffer, but choose to buff scales on my low speed drill mounted in a vice. The bowling ball vice and the drill chuck in the fork tube are both very handy, and I do have variations of both.

The buffer looks like a great idea, I like the using what you got philosophy.

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A CZ with the shiny aluminum coffin tank? I really wanted one of those at one point in my life.

Oh....Had that! Sucker cross-rutted and tore my shoulder out.
Sold that puppy!