If the only reason you are buying the Dremel is to polish trim, I'd suggest saving your money. I just bought the corded kit specifically for use in sanding/polishing the stainless trim for my 58 Impala. I was extremely disappointed in it's performance. I used it one time and figured out a much better and faster way to go.

Using a Dremel for polishing trim is kinda like filling your gas tank with a table spoon. But that's just my opinion...

 

Why do you feel 5000 RPM is too fast? I use a rotary tool (not a dremel) to polish the nooks and crannies that can't be reached with a regular buffing wheel. I think my rotary turns at 18,000 on high. Its the only speed I use.

Tim

 

I thought that since all of the professional buffers run at 3600 rpm that anything much faster would burn the finishes.

Thanks!

George
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Originally posted by gsrokmix:
I thought that since all of the professional buffers run at 3600 rpm that anything much faster would burn the finishes.

I'm no expert on polishing, so I can't tell you what a professional polisher would do, but I have made lots of stuff "glow" over the years. At a minimum, a decent rotary tool and bench grinder are "must have's" to polish at home. IMHO.

I have been using my Chicago Electric plug-in rotary tool on my 68 grill that was acid dipped to remove the annodizing. The advertised speed is 18,000 rpm on high. Even at that speed with a felt barrel type bit and tripoli compound its pretty tedious smoothing out 35 years worth of pits on all those narrow sections of the grille. I'll follow with some jewelers rouge to bring it out to a high luster when I am satistfied with how it sands down (again on high speed). But I'm only using it on areas that are inaccessable to a normal bench polisher. A grill is like a cheese grater to a normal bench polisher, so a rotary tool does have its place.


No rocket science here.

Tim

 

Tim I have been wanting to get a rotary tool for awhile for other trhings so I agree that it's a muxt have anyway. I guess I'll just try the polishing on some scrap & see if it works for me. Thanks for the advice.

Vettefella, what is the better & faster way to go you discovered?

Thanks!

George
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