Sounds like you've got a plan there. One little issue tho. Setting up multiple wheels on one machine isn't a good idea *UNLESS* you're running the same compound on 'em. Cross contamination of your wheels is a real good way to scratch your pieces.
Think if you had a tight spiral on one shaft of your buffer and a loose cotton on the other. The spiral wheel you use with tripoli and the loose with white rouge. You get a piece all sanded out and ready to buff and dive in with the tripoli.. All that stuff that gets flung all over the place?? It's bits of wheel, compounds etc.. Guess what wheel it's gonna land on.. Yep, that loose cotton wheel..
You get your part all shiny and ready for a spell with white rouge and since your wheel is contaminated with "funk", it scratches the hell out of it.. (been there, done that)
Baldor makes *excellent* motors. Almost all my shop tools have Baldor motors. I've heard good things about their buffers and I almost bought one a few months back. 2 things stopped me.
1. the shafts on the Baldors aren't that long.
2. the price.
For a little more than half the cost of a 1hp Baldor, I picked up a Jet 1hp buffer with 10" shafts - plenty of room to work large parts around on. Like I said before, it's got a lot of grunt and although I CAN bog it down, it takes all of my 225lbs to do so.
I can wire it 110 or 220 in a matter of minutes (2 wirenuts) and thus far, it's been a very good unit.
Whichever unit you opt for, it'll certainly make your polishing a bit easier.
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