Griot's Garage Random Orbital - Counter Weight Question

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a_guerrajr

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Hey guys,



Well i was using a PC7424, then I bought a PC7424XP, i sold it and bought this GG's 6" polisher. I'm curious if it only comes with the counter weight for the 6" pads made by GG's? If i want to use smaller pads like 5.5" or 4" will i need to purchase a smaller counter-weight? If so wheres a good place to buy the counter weights?



I spoke with GG's support, and they don't offer smaller counter weights, they also don't "Recommend" using a smaller size pad than 6". however with the right counter weight that shouln't be an issue.



I'm sure there are some of you out there using GG's 6" RO w/ 5.5 or smaller pads...?



Thanks
 
I haven't tried it with the GG polisher yet, but I use the larger counterweight with all sizes of pads on my PC with zero problems. I can't imagine it'd be an issue with the GG, but that's just an educated guess. I sure won't be worrying about it when I do finally use a 4" pad on mine ;)
 
Barry Theal said:
Accumulator, did you see the new varible speed cyclo yet?
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No, I haven't seen that! Huh...took 'em long enough to come out with that, sorta interesting how they've been doing so much product development recently (the counterweights, the E2K adaptors, and now this). Not like the old days when Cyclo stuff went unchanged for ages.



OK, I'll go over to Cyclotoolmakers dot com and see what's up, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
 
I am also interested in knowing this bc I have a new Griots on the way. I never had an issue with the Meguiars G110 that I had and the 5" BP with the 5.5" pads, and honestly don't know that the 5" counterweight would make that big a difference. Looking forward to some answers.
 
mrclrider said:
I just email Griots, I will let you know what they say.
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probably the same thing they told me over the phone.



although the chick had to put me on hold to get a we don't really know answer.
 
so i guess my question is can i use a counter weight made for larger than 6" pads on pads that are 5.5" ?



i know when you go up in pad size the bigger counter weight is needed, but i'm not sure if when it's smaller, does the small rule apply?
 
I got my answer from tech support at Autogeek.



Griots doesn't make a CW to go larger than any pads over 6.5"

however the one on there will work for pads smaller thant 6"
 
Note that there are a scad of reasons why a GG rep would say not to use smaller pads...or pads from other sources for that matter.



If the polisher acts squirrely with smaller pads, I'd just turn down the speed a bit, which I often do with 4" pads anyhow.
 
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