Doing Things Wrong

DIY Polishing Machine

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This was my initial attempt at a polishing machine. Not pictured is the shroud I made for it to contain the spray.

This is for wet-polishing with sponges and automotive polishing compound. It is a very messy process - drops of "mud" fly everywhere. However, it does work. It takes great care to avoid going through the finish, which is a disaster. I have since moved to dry-buffing with cloth wheels.

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The Harbor Freight polisher blew up a few days past the measly 90-day warranty. These Chinese tools often have almost no grease on the gears and bearings, and immediately start to tear themselves up inside. But I was expecting that, and had remedied it first thing, so I had to wait for some other part to fail. The trigger - easily replaceable, if you can get one, which you can't. That's today's lesson on cheap tools. I replaced it with a DeWalt that is still going like new.


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the blue one

First, I am bound to state that I received this pedal at no cost for review. Having gotten that out of the way …

This is pedal #4 since I started reviewing these for KMise, and I must say, I am very pleased with all of them. I started with the tremolo, then the phase and the "US Dream" overdrive, and now this "Crunch" distortion. All these pedals are well built, great-sounding, attractive, quiet, compact, and true bypass.

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