Thomas Owens; Have returned 2nd go??? This is my "Upholstery & Carpet Cleaning kit", I have made adjustments with the Cimex brush (Backing plate - Cimex Brush - Locknut) works realy well.
Hope this helps.

CHEERS !!!

P.S. See you all at the EXPO

AUSSIE WEST

Hi,

So you connect that to the Makita? That would make my choice a lot easier. I already have the brush and pad driver from Rick. All I would need would be the Makita.

I would love to see the picture of your setup, but don't know much about picture posting.

Could you just e-mail it to jonnysmith808@hotmail.com? It's a seldom used e-mail, but at least you could get it to me.

Thanks a lot for the help.

Here we go again, my kit plus the adjustment to the Cimex brush to take the Lock nut.

P.S. Thanks to George Mavridis...... Team work




AUSSIE WEST

Thanks for the picture!

I actually do not have the cimex brushes yet, so from what I see in the picture, you drilled the middle hole in the brush larger so it could receive the Makita thread?

Hi Thomas

No, you don’t need to drill out anything. You simply take the “Drill Driver” that Rick sells and unscrew the spindle out of the back of it – its that easy. You can probably even unscrew it by hand if it’s not too tight. I use the exact same setup for not only doing stairs, upholstery and other tight areas but that is also how I go about Powder Polishing marble and other natural stone. For me I use a Milwaukee, 5540 I think that part # is. The Makita may work just as well; I’ve just never used it personally. For me to use that setup on stone I need to be able to dial the RPMs down to zero and I don’t know it that’s possible with the Makita, maybe it is.

Guess what; before posting this I just looked back at the pics and saw that the BRUSH was drilled out – (so I’m gonna go shut my trap and stick my head in the sand now) – I miss understood the post, I’m sorry. I’ve never used one of the Cimex brushes like that before, normally I just use the black backer pad and a Plus or Max pad. AW, are you using any retaining nuts front or rear, I’d be concerned with the plastic stripping out, has that been a problem?

David Gelinas
Marbleguy

Thank you David. Even though that wasn't the question I was asking, you did answer a question that I probably was going to ask down the road!

I didn't realize that the drill driver was compatible with polishers, but now I know.

So apparently you've never found the need for brushes while doing upholstery or stairs. Did you clean only commercial, durable materials, or cut pile stairs and residential upholstery as well?

Also, that Milwaukee has an interesting option to dial the speed down to almost zero. Does it have an actual dial that you can set it at many different speeds?

Thanks.

Hi Thomas.

The Makita also has the dial feature. 600-3000rpms with slow start as well. As far as the diferrent texile that you may clean, I think the bonnet is pretty safe to use on most common. Ive used it and it works great with the regular drill. I found that with the drill (non-variable speed) and fiber plus pad, if you use light preasure allowing the rpms to peak out it works better. Then you can come back with the bonnet.

The bonnet is cool cause you can absorb moisture and soil which increase dry times. The brush is cool too cause it causes the white film to form easier than the others and its delicate as well.

All that to say: A regular $59.99 drill, Rick's drill driver with bonnet is a great, safe working combo that produce results. As well as the brush Rick sells.
You'll be winning if you just got that.

So how's the big Island treating you?


Thanks
Your Servant Alex

Cultivate the "OCCD" you had at first for the industry!

Thanks Alex!

I was thinking of using a drill, but I don't have a good one right now, so I figured I might as well put that money towards the Makita. I ordered it from that tool store you mentioned to me. Great price. Can't wait to get it.

I'm actually on Oahu. It can be confusing because the Big Island is called Hawaii, as is the entire island chain.

Oahu is getting pretty crowded. Traffic is getting very bad. They are planning to build a rail system, but who knows how long that is going to take.

Everything in Hawaii takes a loooooong time. They have a phrase here, "Hawaiian time", which means if you are told something will happen at 5:00, expect it by 6:30.

Thomas

Yes you can dial down the 5540 very low. If there is no head weight it will spin “reasonably” slow, if there is any measure of head weight it will stall. Of course if you leave it like that you’re going to burn up the motor. I need to be able to have it that slow when I begin Powder Polishing by hand. Then as the “slurry” begins to dry I continually increase head weight and power going to the machine – all at the same time because of pressing harder the speed is not spinning so fast that it slings slurry every ware. Which brings me to a question for Alex.



Alex

I have two other grinders (Flex) that are used extensively in the stone industry – unfortunately they aren’t worth beans to me for my application. One of them also has a “soft” start feature. Because of that (In my opinion) as soon as you load up to much weight on the machine to get it to perform it stalls. I wouldn’t imagine you’d ever have the chance to load up a machine like that when it comes to upholstery or even stairs but has the Mikita given you any indication that that could become a problem? Also, what is the price of that unit do you know? The 5540 at HD was I think $199.00 but they don’t carry it anymore, at least not in this area.

David Gelinas
Marbleguy

Hi David,

To be honest with you i've never used my Makita in the carpet cleaning or upholstery cleaning. I use it for glass restoration. However i do load it up somewhat and had no indication of any problems. Makitas are sweet.

I looked at the Milwalkee it it too heavy for what i'm doing. But then theres the Hitachi that i was checking out. It has the same features as the Makita same specs. The only difference is that the Makita is 10 amps. Hitachi is 11 amps., which may be ideal for you with the load you put on. I feel hitachi is a better more durabal brand. However i choose the Makita for what i'm doing cause i enjoy the puuuurrr of it. The Hitachi is a few bucks more then Makita.

Makita ran about $165.00 wheres tha hitachi was $199.00 or so.



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for hitachi polisher/sander go to hitachi website and click locations for distributor in your area.

Thanks
Your Servant Alex

Cultivate the "OCCD" you had at first for the industry!

Alex

Thanks for the info, I'll check it out.

David Gelinas
Marbleguy