floor polishing machines

[rocky.disalva]

Hi All
Hope you can help us, We are looking for a high quality floor stone polishing machines which is known to give best output.
we will highly appreciate your feed back.

Thanks in advance.
Rocky Disalva

 

[Mlynch]

What is your budget and what kind of jobs do you want to do?

 

[Andy S]

HTC HTC HTC

Grinds concrete and polishes. I ground a 1600 Sq Ft warehouse with 25 grit diamond bits in an hour, and went to get gas for my generator too. That was with an HTC 500 machine. Dont get their vaccums though, go with a CDC Larue pulse bak... damn those things ****!

 

[Mlynch]

I am going to have to gently disagree on htc... especially for natural stone which is what it looks like rocky is looking for.

Htc makes great stuff but its not necessarily the best bang for the buck. (for example the lavina 25)

I have a pulse bac as well and it works well for what i paid for it hands down the best for little money but occasionally on really aggressive grinding it cant keep pace...

 

[Andy S]

Oh, guess i missed the stone part. I dont know **** about that I have almost 200 hours on my machine, only changed the belt once. The pulse bak is awesome, never had a problem with it not keeping up.

 

[Mlynch]

I was just on a job today w/ 30 grit diamonds removing thinset and the poor pulsebac just couldn't **** the dust up fast enough... What a PITA! I think the pulse bac really max's out @ a 20 inch machine when you are doing really aggressive stuff. If i am not mistaken the htc 500 is 20 inches(my lavina is 25) so i have almost 25 percent more surface area for it to keep up with. But to go with the next vacuum up i would be looking at spending over twice the money so i guess i can't complain too much.