doing the polishing step with my rims and pipes using an attachment for the dremel using compounds would this work well? if so what attachment/ments would i need?

 

Sorry to tell ya, but it wont work. I recently polished my wheels, and tried the dremel route first. It dosent spin fast enough to do any good. What I did was bought a snap on die grinder, and that worked superb. It has to be a fast one, like 40,000 rpm's i think, and have the tork. The drmel has the rpm's but dosent really do it for some reason. Just to let you know.

 

how much was the die grinder?

 

Just for fun one time I tried to see how well the edges of my camaro wheels would shine up by polishing with my dremel and I got pretty good results.

You have to sand off the clearcoat and then work up to the polishing stage but once their done it's easy to maintain. Just don't push hard when your polishing so you can keep the RPM's up, push only hard enough to work the buff, not slow it down.

 

i paid $120 for my Snap-On die-grinder

you'll need an air compressor also

 

I paid 150 for mine. and it worked perfectly.

 

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=53177

How about $8?

Lon

 

that is just the kit

Brian

 

You're right. It is a kit, consisting of a die grinder, 5 stones, air nipple and wrench. They wouldn't list the "air requirement" for the tool if it were only a tool accessory kit without the die grinder.

Lon

 

So when using a die grinder you just use the normal grit bits you'd use if polishing by hand? like 180, 220, etc. working your way up?

 

My bad. It is a crap kit though. 22000 rpm wont get you very far. I have a 40000 and it does the trick, I cant imagine using anything less than around 30000.

Brian

 

i picked up a die grinder for about 30 bucks, spins to about 30k rpm and works fine