Polishing mops

Hello All,

Browsing through RDG's site, I see that they offer polishing/buffing mops in either white or yellow.

The product description makes no difference between the two.

Does anyone know if there is a difference ?

TIA

All the best,

Daniel

My guess is that it's just a colour-coding thing ... so that you can have two mops for use with different grades of abrasive.

But I'm sure someone will be along to put me right.

MichaelG.

Hello Michael,

I was wondering that.

But, I would be sure to quickly forget which was which.

Daniel, although the underlying material and dimensions are the same, there is a subtle distinction in the description in the advertisement. They describe the yellow ones as "Impregnated and especially stiff. For preliminary...." and the white ones as " soft ....For high shine polishing ....Adapts to the workpiece contour. "

Re Michael's comment about using colour-coding to distinguish between grades of polishing compound, you would almost certainly use different grades with the these two wheels. I actually use more grades, and more wheel types including sisal to start sometimes, so I use a 'sharpie' to mark each wheel as to what compound I use it with.

I have no connection with any vendor, I personally buy mine from the range sold by Caswell UK, they also have a useful guide to buffing and polishing, including wheels and compounds.

Edited By Dave Martin on 28/04/2018 09:28:06

I use these folks.

**LINK**

They provide lots of information about their products, the prices are good and postage is very reasonable.

My mops are dirty grey and black ! I didn't know that they came in different colours.

Thank's everyone for the speedy & informative replies.

Much appreciated.

The posted links have certainly opened up a, hitherto, unkown

world to me.

Many thank's, once again.

Daniel

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Thanks for that link to Caswell's guide, Dave

MichaelG.

Quite a dangerous business polishing, I never ever wear gloves when polishing,I prefer black fingers to missing fingers.

Not so. As far as I'm aware, silver is never rhodium plated, and white gold is plated only to enhance its colour. When compared to truly white metals such as silver or platinum, white gold has a distinct yellowish or greyish tinge. Rhodium, whilst not as white as silver, is a member of the platinum group and is certainly whiter than white gold, as is obvious when the thin plating wears away to reveal the true white gold below. People get quite upset when they believe their white gold ring is going bad and changing colour, and are usually willing to spend the £50 or so to have it re-plated.

Sorry, but it is, and frequently:

http://www.hsamuel.co.uk/webstore/l/jewellery/material%7Crhodium+plated+silver/

Same here you want the feel to be able to react to it. Done my time mop polishing hate it. Still got a 3hp 10" pedestal outside last 8 years that spins oppsite direction and 5500rpm - just hang on to the job, worst case just skates off unless clip bottom edge.
Need a powerful motor if using 60grit, sparks fly.

Hard mops are stitched almost to the outer circumference.

Thank's again for the input everyone.

Ended up with the Polishing Shop, as Caswell's were out of

stock on the items I chose.

It's only low level, mutli purpose shop polishing, that I'm after.

+1 for not wearing gloves. Much safer without.

Have a good day,

Daniel

Its a good idea to hang a heavy long curtain or similar a metre or more behind the polishing wheel. Then if you do have the work grabbed it has a good chance of not ricocheting around the shop, and could even fall quietly to the floor undamaged.

Tim

It’s a good idea to wear eye protection and a face mask though.

As a point of interest I’ve been misquoted above. I never mentioned anything about silver! I just happened to mention the Polishingshop.co.uk was a good supplier that I’ve used in the past.

I've always used smaller mops mounted in the pistol drill or more recently on my 4" angle grinder. Job is firmly held in the vice (outside the workshop). I've found this is all that's needed for motorcycle sized jobs, up to full engine casing sidecovers etc. Roughing of badly corroded ally is done with wet-rub paper by hand before final polishing with the mops.

Really?

I doubt you've ever polished commercially then. ie 10" mops with a 3 phase 3 HP spindle.

Without wearing welding gauntlets you aint gonna be able to hold the component for more than a few SECONDS at a time....