DanITD Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 (edited) Heard some rumblings once about Adams bringing a micro polisher to market, using 1” or 2” pads. Does anyone have insight to this? (And if it’s just rumour, please consider this a suggestion) If pricing can be kept inline with the rest of the SK products, you’d have a world beater! Edited September 25, 2018 by DanITD Incomplete structure ObsessedDetailer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 Ya never know. And the holidays are coming. Just saying. ? DanITD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwp2016nd Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 9 hours ago, DanITD said: Heard some rumblings once about Adams bringing a micro polisher to market, using 1” or 2” pads. Does anyone have insight to this? (And if it’s just rumour, please consider this a suggestion) If pricing can be kept inline with the rest of the SK products, you’d have a world beater! One can hope! While the Rupes Nano I own is very cool, there are certain things about it I would like to be improved upon. If Adam's released one I would definitely try one out. DanITD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BHarris23 Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 3 hours ago, cwp2016nd said: One can hope! While the Rupes Nano I own is very cool, there are certain things about it I would like to be improved upon. If Adam's released one I would definitely try one out. What don’t you like about the Rupes Nano? While I understand it is expensive and more of a “specialty” tool, I absolutely love mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanITD Posted September 26, 2018 Author Share Posted September 26, 2018 Yup. I’ve only heard positive things about the ibrid, but unfortunately is just outta my budget. (With tax, about $1000 CDN) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwp2016nd Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 1 hour ago, BHarris23 said: What don’t you like about the Rupes Nano? While I understand it is expensive and more of a “specialty” tool, I absolutely love mine. Stalling issues with the bigger pads. You have to pay SO much attention to keeping it perfectly flat in order for the pad to keep spinning. Wish I could use the rotary function with the 2” pads but they don’t want you to. I will keep playing with it but for $600 I was a little underwhelmed initially. Super cool tool, just lacks in certain areas. I’m going to buy a bunch more pads and keep trying different things with it. As always, you need certain tools in your arsenal and a very small polisher is essential which is why I will keep it until I learn to like it or find something to replace it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane@detailedreflections Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 @cwp2016nd we have talked about your nano issues before. I wish you lived closer so we could sit down and see what’s going on with it. We use our nano a bunch and none of the three of us have the stalling issues you describe. I don’t know if you have a bad machine or if it’s a technique thing. Pressure is the biggest thing with the nano. The tool has to do all the work where with a big polisher you can force it a bit with more pressure. All told, it’s still a favorite tool in our arsenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BHarris23 Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 I’m with @shane@detailedreflections on this one. Either the tool is defective or it’s technique. Never had any stalling issues. And I don’t understand why they wouldn’t want you to use the rotary function with the 2” pads. I used it quite a bit because there are times you can’t use a random orbital with a 2” pad due to the surface being in a tricky spot. cwp2016nd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane@detailedreflections Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 1 hour ago, BHarris23 said: I’m with @shane@detailedreflections on this one. Either the tool is defective or it’s technique. Never had any stalling issues. And I don’t understand why they wouldn’t want you to use the rotary function with the 2” pads. I used it quite a bit because there are times you can’t use a random orbital with a 2” pad due to the surface being in a tricky spot. I agree on using the rotary with a 2" pad. We've done so without issues. It's not our typical rotary set up, but we do use it. It does sling polish everywhere, but you want the polish to let the pad slip and cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwp2016nd Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 2 hours ago, shane@detailedreflections said: @cwp2016nd we have talked about your nano issues before. I wish you lived closer so we could sit down and see what’s going on with it. We use our nano a bunch and none of the three of us have the stalling issues you describe. I don’t know if you have a bad machine or if it’s a technique thing. Pressure is the biggest thing with the nano. The tool has to do all the work where with a big polisher you can force it a bit with more pressure. All told, it’s still a favorite tool in our arsenal. I'm going to continue playing with it and see if I can refine my technique. I am very careful with ANY pressure for the fact you have to let the machine do the work. I will just tweak it until it works for me. As a side note, I am only a ferry ride away from you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane@detailedreflections Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 1 hour ago, cwp2016nd said: I'm going to continue playing with it and see if I can refine my technique. I am very careful with ANY pressure for the fact you have to let the machine do the work. I will just tweak it until it works for me. As a side note, I am only a ferry ride away from you If you ever want to take the ferry ride and see if we can figure out what’s going on with that nano of yours, my door is open. And a beer. Mike E., cwp2016nd and falcaineer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwp2016nd Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 On 9/26/2018 at 3:07 AM, shane@detailedreflections said: @cwp2016nd we have talked about your nano issues before. I wish you lived closer so we could sit down and see what’s going on with it. We use our nano a bunch and none of the three of us have the stalling issues you describe. I don’t know if you have a bad machine or if it’s a technique thing. Pressure is the biggest thing with the nano. The tool has to do all the work where with a big polisher you can force it a bit with more pressure. All told, it’s still a favorite tool in our arsenal. On 9/26/2018 at 3:11 AM, BHarris23 said: I’m with @shane@detailedreflections on this one. Either the tool is defective or it’s technique. Never had any stalling issues. And I don’t understand why they wouldn’t want you to use the rotary function with the 2” pads. I used it quite a bit because there are times you can’t use a random orbital with a 2” pad due to the surface being in a tricky spot. I did some more testing on my Miata this past weekend. I got it down where I kept the pad rotating and working. I still prefer the rotary function with the smaller pads, but I was able to maintain rotation with both the 1" and 2" pads in dual action mode. What I did wrong before was use pressure. Even the slightest bit of pressure and it stalls, but if I keep it perfectly flat on the panel (as flat as possible) and just hold the polisher there it will keep spinning. Worked out great and I will now build my arsenal of 1-2" pads for it. Thanks guys. shane@detailedreflections 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GXPaycheck Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 (edited) Rupes says no more than 50% compression of the pad. Edited October 1, 2018 by GXPaycheck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObsessedDetailer Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 On 9/25/2018 at 8:35 AM, DanITD said: Heard some rumblings once about Adams bringing a micro polisher to market, using 1” or 2” pads. Does anyone have insight to this? (And if it’s just rumour, please consider this a suggestion) If pricing can be kept inline with the rest of the SK products, you’d have a world beater! Possibly could be part of a big Black Friday drop with all the buzz going around. Wish I could confirm or deny!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@Dmax_HD Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 On 9/25/2018 at 10:35 AM, DanITD said: Heard some rumblings once about Adams bringing a micro polisher to market, using 1” or 2” pads. Does anyone have insight to this? (And if it’s just rumour, please consider this a suggestion) If pricing can be kept inline with the rest of the SK products, you’d have a world beater! That would be a great addition to the line up! DanITD and ObsessedDetailer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObsessedDetailer Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 11 minutes ago, Iceman said: That would be a great addition to the line up! I would buy just to buy. thats how bad I want something like that @Dmax_HD and DanITD 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@Dmax_HD Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 30 minutes ago, ObsessedDetailer said: I would buy just to buy. thats how bad I want something like that Haha I hear ya and agree with you! ObsessedDetailer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanITD Posted October 14, 2018 Author Share Posted October 14, 2018 5 hours ago, ObsessedDetailer said: Possibly could be part of a big Black Friday drop with all the buzz going around. Wish I could confirm or deny!! ....Go on.... I'm in if that’s the case! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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