Topic: I'd like to buy a small buffer type pad kit for my Dremel;any one try it ?

[grcamna2]

I want to use my Dremel tool to polish different size alloy parts and wondered if a buffer pad type kit w/ various atatchments are available w/ possibly a few different size tools up to a 2" disc w/ maybe some different type of polishing pastes? any kits that will work with the Dremel like that avail. that you know of ?
 I live in an Apt. building and work out of a storage(no heat or elec.)so I'd like to keep it as low key as possible and not disturb my neighbors on either side of me. 

[HondaMan]

I want to use my Dremel tool to polish different size alloy parts and wondered if a buffer pad type kit w/ various atatchments are available w/ possibly a few different size tools up to a 2" disc w/ maybe some different type of polishing pastes? any kits that will work with the Dremel like that avail. that you know of ?
 I live in an Apt. building and work out of a storage(no heat or elec.)so I'd like to keep it as low key as possible and not disturb my neighbors on either side of me. 

I bought about 10 different ones and was sorely disappointed by every one of them. They don't seem to polish anything, and they fall apart, even at low speeds.

[faux fiddy]

They don't seem to polish anything, and they fall apart, even at low speeds.

I think I have one that came with a kit of bits and collets. They seem to be so tiny that they would be pointless for anything but jewelry.  If they are flimsy then minus 2.

Those dremel tools can make a fair bit of noise, too, so what's the difference in a few dB's?  Shut it down by 9 O'clock..

[martin99]

Yep, I've found those polishing bits next to bloody useless too. And don't, whatever you do be tempted to use them to buff up a painted surface - you'l have a ravine in your paintwork down to the metal in a second.

And while we're at it forget the brass wire brush attachments too, unless you have a bottomless pit of money to replace them every five minutes. Oh, and If you don't mind a 'brassy sheen' on your workpiece as well.

[evanphi]

I made a cotton flap wheel for putting wax on pipe stems. Seems to have worked. Likely not good for polishing metal, though.

[grcamna2]

Would any of you recommend a small hand held buffer/polisher that I could get as a kit(China)which included some discs and pads that would work w/ one hand while I'm holding the work w/ the other down on the floor ?