Adding weight to polisher

Has anyone considered adding removable weights to the top of a polisher; so as it keep consistent, effortless weight on top of the area you're working on?

 

Kind of like the weighted shifter (with manual transmissions)?

Try it out and let us know if it made it easier? I can see it being useful on horizontal surfaces, but on vertical, which is most of the car any way, it is only going to make it more difficult since gravity doesnt work like horizontally.

 

Yeah, this would help with hood, roof, and trunk lid.

 

I don't know how useful it would be, it's far easier to keep consistent pressure on horizontal surface rather than vertical, at least for me.

 

Plus imagine how uncomfortable it would be controlling and holding the machine if you placed a wehgted object on the front portion of it that you usually hold on to with your pressure hand.

 

I would feel much more comfortable with no weights than with, I like to know exactly how much pressure I'm placing on the paint. Especially when on a slight curve or approaching an edge or sharp angle. But that's just my personal preference.

 

It probably wouldn't help at all with vertical surfaces and would just become extra weight and effort. As for horizontal, it could be useful but still I'd be worried having anything heavy sitting on top of my buffer. If buffers had a weight option to add weights to the actual unit itself, that could be cool.

 

Or just an old rotary that weighed twenty pounds and use that on horizontal panels and put out the lightweight da or rotary for vertical?