Drill to pads adapter at harbor Freight - $6

[XRL]

Not sure if this is really a great deal or not, but it seemed nice to me.



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Looks like it uses standard backing plates too, so it might be a cheap backing plate for your DA.

 

[Legacy]

Not sure if this is really a great deal or not, but it seemed nice to me.



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Looks like it uses standard backing plates too, so it might be a cheap backing plate for your DA.

Looks like a good deal..the adapter alone is a few bucks. Try it and let us know what you think.

 

[Accumulator]

Looks like it uses standard backing plates too, so it might be a cheap backing plate for your DA.

Maybe too cheap :think:



At the risk of sounding like a pessimist, I dunno if I'd want to trust that backing plate. Besides being too inexpensive to be confidence-inspiring (well, for me at least), it's presumably designed to be minimally durable for a *rotary* application (i.e., the drill), remember that RO/DA machines impart a *LOT* more stress on the backing plate. People break good 6" backing plates all the time, sometimes with disastrous results. So I bet it'd be OK right up until there's a catastrophic failure.



Might be OK for waxing though...



Again, sorry to be a wet blanket. But I wouldn't want anybody to mess up their vehicle over trying to save a few bucks.

 

[XRL]

I'd think it'd be good for headlight restoration with a drill.



That's a good point about the DA. It's going to have to deal with forces that a rotary tool wouldn't impart on them at all.