Compressed Air Rotary Buffer

[Carrera]

Which brands of compressed air rotary buffers do you guys recommend? I have a customer who is asking for one of this buffers, and I would like to provide him with some leads. This tool is to be used on fiberglass.

[Mike Phillips]

Originally posted by Carrera
Which brands of compressed air rotary buffers do you guys recommend? I have a customer who is asking for one of this buffers, and I would like to provide him with some leads. This tool is to be used on fiberglass.

Hi Carrera,

I have not used air powered rotary buffers in my detailing career. So I can't comment on the best ones available. That said, any reputable name brand tool should suffice.

Here's a place where an air powered rotary buffer is a good idea, Machine buffing boats near water, you definitely don't want to be using an electric buffer near the water.

An an old boss of mine had a 40' sailboat, dark blue in color and he would use an air powered rotary buffer to buff out the the parts of the boat he could reach above the water line this way for safety reasons.

Best of luck...

Mike

[Carrera]

The direct use of the air buffer would be on the production of fiberglass parts for an amusement park. They build building fascades out to fibrerglass. Quite an odd application. The customer is using M8811 and M0811 mold release products.

In one of the largest body shops in town, which is a production shop, they are using the air rotary bufferes. I asked the manager, at what RPM the machines are working at, and he answered "I don't know".

[Pazrs]

In one of the largest body shops in town, which is a production shop, they are using the air rotary bufferes. I asked the manager, at what RPM the machines are working at, and he answered "I don't know". [/B]



Not uncommon for a manager to not know whats going on :D





If your compressor can keep up, an air buffer can be quite handy. Its very easy to get the exact speed you want, at any time.

[Tim Lingor]

Hey,

Sorry, I too have only used electric rotaries.

But I do own other air tools. Just make sure whatever buffer you do buy, your compressor has enough continous CFM's to run it.

Tim

[the other pc]

My compressor doesn't have the muscle to run a buffer but if it did I would look at tools from these companies:
Dynabrade (http://www.dynabrade.com/)
Chicago Pneumatic (http://www.chicagopneumatic.com/)
National Detroit (http://www.nationaldetroit.com/)
Sioux Tools (http://www.siouxtools.com/)


PC.

[Boss_429]

I used a pneumatic buffer for many years. As a matter of fact, I still have my Ingersoll-Rand, and it still worked fine the last time I used it. We also used Mac Tools penumatic buffers (not sure if they still make them), and they also worked fine.