Ooooooh, I have a friend with one of those. Love the old school look and letting the weight of the thing do most of the work. The Flex has been the only upgrade that I have needed from my first porter cable RO. I was pretty heavily invested in pads and bonnets as well. I think if I started to do it professionally or more than a couple times a year, I would pick one up.

Hrmmmm makes me wonder about Ebay.... :eeps:

This is getting to be a detail thread real fast haha.

TiagX5, love the Cyclo polisher and never saw one before! It's awesome basically combining 2 4-inch heads and having them overlap, I'm sure it works just as good as a traditional polisher using 1 pad!

I have a first generation Porter Cable 7424 (not the XP) and its been great for going on 9 years now, I have 6 inch pads and it just keeps on trucking. I'm actually going to get a 3 inch backing plate and pads and use it solely for dedicated small work, like polishing glass, and polishing the Shadowline trims on my X, as well as buffing the paint on my Triumph Storm.

Once I get the 3" backing plate setup I'm going to treat myself to a 3rd Gen Griot's Random Orbital, the power is amazing compared to my first gen PC (speed 6 on my PC is like speed 4 on the Griots), the backing plate is now vented to expel some heat away and extend pad life, and its fully lifetime warrantied, if it breaks, you get a new one.

mD, you are a man among men to hand polish/wax the fleet every year, I know you are a retired man, you should invest the 150 or so in a PC and some pads, will make your job so much easier!

I first used a friends Cyclo while trying to remove yellow/orange rust stains in the finish of my white '80s Jeep Limited that was parked at a GF house while away on vacation, the lawn sprinklers were using well water with high iron content (the jeep was wet down with iron water and baked by the sun every day for 2 weeks). I tried several different products using a Snap On variable speed buffer with wool and foam pads and an 11" ran-orb polisher, was not satisifed with labor/result ratio. A buddy brought over the Cyclo and it made the job almost effortless (made the 11'' ran-ord feel like I was wrestling an epileptic midget in the throws of a seizure). Picked one up the following week!

I used to hand clay (hours of effort and need to throw out the clay if it's dropped), got the nanopads and solution from Cyclo and now the paint cleaning job is 1/10 the time and effort. Counter-balance is perfect on the Cyclo too, no more numb hands/arms after cleaning/waxing jobs.

American built/owned for over 60 yrs. Cyclo has pics on their site of commercial use units over 50 yrs old coming in for service that only need motor brush replacements and cords. You can't kill them.

Aircraft maint/repair shops use these to polish windscreens, clean interiors and polish paint and bare aluminium to a mirror finish without a SINGLE swirl.

E-bay sells used units for over $200.