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After going to the trouble of replacing the ear pads on my metal detecting headset, twice when I got to a detecting site the headphones would not turn on, even though they had been left on the charger after the previous trip until the charge indicator light went off and then were unplugged until...

In response to the above negativity, please note the polishing did not harm the Ace logo in the pic. I bought the kit to rejuvenate headlights and they still looked great a couple of years later when I sold the car. Don't know how it will last on screwdriver handles, but I would think they could...

Thank you for the comments and hints. I would love to have a Baldor wide shaft buffer motor and will keep my eyes open for any deals. I simply cannot talk myself into spending the money for a new one with the expected amount of use I will give it. I have repaired both my Eastwoods with JB Weld...

If you have an Eastwood buffer motor that looks like this: It will most likely fail on you - I have had 2 fail in the same manner. If you want to prolong the life, I would take the steps outlined below to avoid this: Remove the screws on the endcaps and remove the left endcap. Then slide the...

For a specific model of car?

Some time back I acquired a Mother's headlight rejuvenator kit that includes polish, various grits of very fine sandpaper and this foam ball. I have discovered it is excellent for refurbishing plastic handles on tools. Before: Another example - this one was in worse shape, but I forgot to...

I have an antique tool that is a 7/8 socket on a hex drive that looks like about a 7/16 inch allen wrench. Can anyone tell me if this is some kind of specialty tool?

Thanks for the tip. I do not have access to facebook, but a friend checked and said this was a narrow shaft grinder, not a wide shaft buffer. Not a project I want to take on.

Apparently you didn't see post #40 above. After the second Eastwood failed, I decided to reassemble the first one with a JB Welded base. When I plugged it in with no wheels the motor spun at full speed with no apparent vibration. Then I installed only the wire wheel and turned it on and got the...

Good thoughts. I have now determined that the vibration was not caused by the wire wheel, but rather by the stacked 1/2" buffing wheels on the other end. I was totally surprised by that as I never thought some cloth bits could be heavy enough/out of balance enough to create the problem.

Wasn't aware of shaft extensions - somehow that has escaped me. I do think I prefer to stick with the wide shaft buffers.

A little body putty and a light buffing should take care of that!

I appreciate the comments. I would like to stress this is not a grinder. This is the wide shaft buffer motor designed to let you get larger objects on the wheel without interference from the motor - total shaft length is about 22.5". I have a belt/disk sander and use it whenever I can. I use the...

You are absolutely right and I appreciate the encouragement! I find myself, at my age, thinking about whether significant investments in tools are likely to be enjoyed long enough to justify the expense - a lifetime of trying to be frugal is a hard habit to break. The inheritance bit was an...

Pictures of my broken Eastwood buffer motor number 2: This picture shows the two holes that have machine screws screwed into them through holes in the cast base to attach the armature housing to the base. Notice the screw cockeyed in one hole - the threads are totally stripped out. These are...

That reminds me of the old joke - "What is black and white and rode all over?"

They make a proximity voltage checker that is relatively cheep. All you have to do is hold it near the socket and flip the switch. When the tester beeps, voltage is present.

It has been a long while since I ripped a CD. I, too, have experienced problems with some tracks not playing. If I remember right, I discovered errors in the data that describes the title, artist, etc, that when corrected allowed the track to play.

Is something like that available? and where would one find a balancer?

Where, oh where? After I posted this, I went out to the shop and was working on the buffer when it failed, just like the older unit. I will try to post pics tomorrow. As near as I can tell, imbalance in either the wire wheel or the buffing wheel leads to the screws holding the base to the...