Quote Originally Posted by Undream View Post
The reason I use a variable Delta is completely about price. It is the cheapest ~1750rpm motor you can buy, basically (I think I paid $115 for it), and, I do occaisionally dial it up to 3400 for certain things, which is nice.

I just wanted to clear it up that if money were no object, i wouldn't recommend it. Obviously baldor or caswell would be preferred.

Also, as Glen has mentioned, the motor gets in the way when using 4" wheels, I have to move my wheel to the other side in order to do the other side of the blade. Pretty big annoyance, costs me a few minutes overall. 3" or 2" wheels are impossible to use on it.

For 6" & 8" wheels though, it works great, no clearance issues with the motor. 8" wheel @ 1750 is too fast though, IMO. you really need an 1100rpm buffer if you want to use 8" or 10" wheels for greaseless.

I really like about 2500sf/m for greaseless. I dial up my 4" wheels to about 2400rpm to acheive that speed, and run my 6" wheels at 1750rpm...which yields ~2650sf/m.
Thanks for your input Brad. I'm probably going to go with the Caswell 1100 buffer since it's not that much more than what I've been able to find the Delta at. It's much slower than other wheels, which means I'll have to spend more time on it, I think, but I prefer that to something that's quicker but more likely to cause damage.