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CCMobiledetail brings up many good points. Buffers are great if you know what you are doing. If you're inexperienced, a new paint job can be destroyed or you may end up making it look worse than before you started. I have a Hitachi rotary buffer (would prefer a Dewalt) and a Porter Cable Orbital buffer. I am still learning how to use the rotary buffer and have only used on 2 of my vehicles for small areas only. I practice on our older white fleet vans that if I screw up nobody will be heart broken. However, I use my Porter Cable Orbital every time I detail my truck (or somebody elses). Orbitals are pretty close to being idiot proof however you cannot achieve the same results with an orbital as you can with a rotary. For example, when I bought the buffers, I got a black trunklid from a junk car to practice with. The trunk was faded, spotted, filled with swirl marks and all kinds of contaminants. I buffed half the hood with my Orbital and the other half with my rotary using Menzerna Intensive Polish and finished with Menzerna FMJ. The rotary side looked like a brand new paint job. The orbital side was no longer faded but some spotting was still there and the swirls and other blemishes. I have since started using 3m products after the guy who repaired my truck (after it was assaulted by a forklift) showed me how well they work. You may want to check out properautocare.com . They too have a wide variety of detail products and tools available at fairly decent prices. Sorry for the long drawn out rambling.
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