Today’s deal of the day is on a Dewalt polisher and buffing pad kit, DWP849X. It comes with the 7″/9″ polisher, and a separate wool buffing pad and backing pad kit.
The polisher by itself sells for $199, and the 7″ wool buffing pad kit sells for $30. The combination bundle is on sale for $128, so you’re saving quite a bit of money.
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The polisher features a variable speed 12A soft-start motor, and comes with a side handle and larger horizontal side handle. It can be run from 0-600 RPM, and 0-3500 RPM, allowing users to select the best speed range for the application or materials.
There’s a non-marring rubber gear case cover, and a 7″ pad with 5/8-11 arbor. It comes with a 7″ Velcro packing pad, Velcro wool bonnet, and is compatible with other hook-and-loop accessories.
Sale Price: $128
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Deal ends at 3am ET 3/31/17, unless supplies run out sooner.
Hmm, any reason not to get this? I do a bit of polishing when working with metal and plastic panels, and this looks like a great deal on a powerful polisher. $128 for the bundle when the polisher by itself is $199? Seems like a very good deal. The user reviews seem to be exceptionally positive as well.
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My only hesitation? Too bad it’s not cordless.
Ed
It looks like a good deal. I don’t get the obsession with everything being cordless. An extension cord is not a millstone around your neck. I would rather have the unlimited run-time than the weight and expense of two or more 9.0ah batteries.
Stuart
I’ve been thinking about this too.
Corded means a larger pad, and like you said no runtime concerns, unless there are duty cycle specifications.
But cordless means much easier movements.
For a large polisher like this I think the idea of corded works okay.
I’m leaning closer to buying one.
Jeremy Brown
Don’t buy these. They are utter crap(Sorry Dewalt fans). The speed controller sucks, the triggers die. I went with them to get the rubber cover on the head and the mesh on the intake when Makita still didn’t have those.
We killed 4 in 3 months before I gave up on returning them, and bought the Makita. That was a couple years ago.
Nathan
I’ve never looked at a polishing tool until now but i’m reading that DA is a more useful first tool. Thoughts?
Stuart
Depends on what you want to do.
Automotive? I believe I’ve read about dual action buffers and polishers indeed being better.
My use would me mostly on raw materials and not painted surfaces.
This is going to be a lot more powerful than some of the dual action buffers I just looked it. It might be easier for say finishing a bare metal or plastic surface. But on say a painted car, without proper care you might do harm to the finish.
Nathan
LOL – DIfferent Nathan.
So actually there are many pros and other experts in automotive detailing that will say a NON- Dual Action machine with the right pads and technique does far far more than a DA will.
The issue – they put down so much more power they can easily burn though and cause damage.
If you have a deep oxidation or worse deep scratches – a circular polisher will have the power to cut easy – and clean up. But you’d have to be careful with it. Also put the bigger pad on there and if you have the technique you do a car, or van or ? that much faster. But for the normal use you want to use a random orbit. I have the porter cable model DA and I love it
RKA
Even with an experienced operator, I’ve found these rotary polishers leave behind some holograms. But they do work fast if you need to get the paint cleaned up. For the DIYer, a random orbital is much better and with the right pads and polish you’ll achieve a perfect finish. It just takes more time but you have that safety factor. And some of the random orbit machines are quite powerful, so you can cover more area much faster than the machines we had 15 years ago.
I wouldn’t touch this dewalt if your intended use is the car.
Nathan
Thanks. I don’t have any particular use for one but the price was good enough to make me think about it. I guess i’ll wait to see what i need when i need it.
Fazal Majid
Wouldn’t you get swirl marks from a circular as opposed to random orbit polisher?
Stuart
You could.
My experience with polishers is limited.
I’ve done a lot of polishing on rotary wheels, kind of like horizontal disc sanders. Whether you get scratch and swirl marks depends on three compound being used, pressure, and movements of sample or wheel.
fred
When Porter-Cable introduced the first random-orbit sander (based on a 4-1/2 inch angle grinder) it was a bit revolutionary. Prior to that in-line sanders (1/4 or 1/2 sheet) were considered to give the best finish. Using rotary sanders and polishers in a metal (or auto-body) shop the tool operator’s arms were the “the random orbit” – using a light-touch and constantly moving the pad around – using finer and finer grits (some wet papers for polishing go up to at least 12000 grit) – and/or abrasive compound – an experience polisher could achieve a mirror-like finish.
I have no idea what most auto detailers use these days – but the place that does my cars uses a Makita that looks a lot like this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Makita-9237CX3-Variable-Polisher-Sander-Polishing/dp/B01FN6WVG6/
Jeremy Brown
That’s the only one worth having accept no substitute.
Seriously. I wanted to like the dewalt better, I wanted even more so to like the Milwaukee better(Every cordless tool in my shop is Milwaukee).
For a buffer though, Makita nailed it just right. The dewalts kick in too hard and fast then back off, hard to control spatter. Plus they fail with frustrating regularity.
Al DeSpain
I have had this polisher for some time. I has held up well. This is a great price.
I use it to polish concrete counter tops. Highly recommend.
fred
We used a number of wet stone polishers over the years including a Flex a Makita and a Metabo. I recall that the guys thought that the Makita PW5001C was pretty good for touch-up work – but that the outfit that did our “heavy lifting” on stone countertops used a planetary polisher – powered by a Fein grinder – it might have been this one:
https://www.amazon.com/DS301-Planetary-Polisher-Wet-Package/dp/B0041TMX5Q/
We also used a Makita 5 inch concrete grinder (planer) and its cheaper (at least when I bought them) cousin from Bosch – more on concrete stairs and small floors like bathrooms.
Shan
I want this so badly but none of the uses listed in comments would apply to my needs. Can everyone list anything else this tool is used for so that I might justify it’s purchase?
Thanks!
fred
Folks like 3M sell surface conditioning (aka Scotchbrite) disks in 7 inch H&L sizes – for metal and other surface cleaning/prep.