imported_DennisH
New member
UPS man delivered my new Metabo rotary Friday but didn’t have a chance to use it till today which is Sunday. Of coarse I didn’t make it to a body shop to pick up a practice panel and I have not used a rotary before so I would problem need to practice. Well I could practice on an old car – yep that is what I will do, so the 35 Ford going to be my first attempt with a rotary. After inspecting the finish I had minor spider webbing and a couple of spots that has some light marring that will take some special attention. Nothing that OP or IP and a green pad on the Cyclo couldn’t take care of. Seems the most difficult areas are going to be the curved areas, which is about 75% of surfaces and the fenders being the worst with ridge going up the center. So I decided be conservative with pad and product selection and started with LC Black 6 ½ pad on 106ff working it at or below 1200 RPM – seemed safe enough.
1. I didn’t put the metal hand guard on the side handle – seemed like an accident waiting to happen.
2. Didn’t like the handle so removed it – found it easier to grab the body and the grip the head on the unit.
3. There is a piece the box to screw on to the arbor which makes the arbor about 1 ½ inch longer which I felt made it way to long and made it hard to control.
4. My backing plate has center hole to aid in alignment of the LC pads with center holes – found that a 5/8 deep well socket fits perfectly in the hole in the back plate and makes pad centering a snap and perfect every time.
5. Cleanup is a snap – I use an old ice cream tub and some DP pad cleaner and spin dry inside of a 5 gallon bucket and lay flat to dry.
6. I notice on TOL site they recommend against using dawn and claims it will loosen the Velcro on the pad and hard to wash all the soap residue out of the pad.
7. I really do like the soft start and if you plug it in the switch on it will not start – you have to turn it off then back on.
I will have to finish later have a baseball game to go to – grand kids are playing. I know this is worthless without pictures.:waxing:
1. I didn’t put the metal hand guard on the side handle – seemed like an accident waiting to happen.
2. Didn’t like the handle so removed it – found it easier to grab the body and the grip the head on the unit.
3. There is a piece the box to screw on to the arbor which makes the arbor about 1 ½ inch longer which I felt made it way to long and made it hard to control.
4. My backing plate has center hole to aid in alignment of the LC pads with center holes – found that a 5/8 deep well socket fits perfectly in the hole in the back plate and makes pad centering a snap and perfect every time.
5. Cleanup is a snap – I use an old ice cream tub and some DP pad cleaner and spin dry inside of a 5 gallon bucket and lay flat to dry.
6. I notice on TOL site they recommend against using dawn and claims it will loosen the Velcro on the pad and hard to wash all the soap residue out of the pad.
7. I really do like the soft start and if you plug it in the switch on it will not start – you have to turn it off then back on.
I will have to finish later have a baseball game to go to – grand kids are playing. I know this is worthless without pictures.:waxing:
