Coating Buffing Wheels for Polishing - Turnbull Custom Guns

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uh welcome back to turble Custom Guns I

had somebody ask in the comments what I

use for my buffing

wheels and um I told them polish aray

which was wrong I forgot I had changed

somewhere back in covid times Brown stop

carrying polish array and uh I started

using the satin

glow um it seems to work about the same

but the reason why they asked was

because they said that my polishing

compounds seem to hold up a little

better than theirs on the

wheels um one of the reasons why is I

think the way I apply the compound so I

figured I'd do a quick video going over

that um I use hot water

and uh this is probably I don't know 130

degrees and uh I use that to soften up

the compound instead of applying it

direct to the wheel which tends to throw

it like this which sometimes if I need

to freshen it up I'll use that method

but generally I like to at least coat

them once like this every couple

days and as that starts to melt you can

see it kind of melts

off onto the

wheel and I make sure I get the

edges cuz they do a lot of

cutting but I just rub that right into

the I use um these are loose muslin

Wheels um I make sure I rub that right

in there

and then uh as the top

layer wears off I just it kind of

dissolves the glue a little bit and

helps you get more

compound into the wheels

usually the 150 grit which is this one

sometimes it's 120 this is usually the

hardest one to do as the Grits get finer

they seem to melt a little

easier but you see I'm kind of twisting

it into the

fibers now uh

I use loose muslin

Wheels why I guess cuz that's what I

used when I was in Gunsmithing school I

also have a lot of felt

wheels and uh I haven't got the courage

to try them because I'm so used to you

know using the process that I've used

for so

long um sometimes people also use

they'll have a grinder with one 50

stitched wheel on one side and a 150

loose wheel on the other cuz the

stitched wheels will cut

quicker

um they probably would do a little

better for getting rid of

pits so I tend to use a file to get out

my pits and then just leave the loose

muslin

wheels on my buffers

the best thing to do it if you do it

this way is to coat them at night and

then let them dry overnight and you can

use them the next day but it probably

takes I don't know 30 minutes to an hour

for this to dry

properly if you need to speed it up you

can run your buffers and that kind of

air drives them as

well but we'll go ahead and that's that

one done we'll go ahead and cook the

rest

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there this one's all they're all

coated and it makes a pretty hard film

when I first start to use them I'll use

a

bar similar to that just to break the

coating a little bit

and that's how I coat my wheels hope

that's helpful to you and uh we'll see

you next time

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