Originally posted by graphicgr8s Especially any one who really cared about a vehicle would never use a machine buffer. It MUST be all done by hand for perfection.
Pretty much have to agree, there.
Then again, I usually prefer to avoid power tools if it's at all sensible, and kind of the point of liking to polish things is to do it by hand, anyway.
I had a slightly-different opinion on powered buffers when I had my big ol' F-150: that was a lot of surface area that was never exactly going to be pristine.
Actually, when I bought that truck, I had thought the paint was a total write-off: I'd been going to get a little rust repair done, possibly replace the well-worked bed, and have an affordable respray done.
The chalky paint didn't last two weeks before the rubbing compound came out, anyway.