New Festool Shinex Polisher is awesome!!! :)

I'm assuming these arent going to be 5/8" threads

 

I'm realy interested in the little rotary. Keep us posted Paul

 

I want the little rotary.

 

ooooooooooo i'm liking these!! let us know how you get on with them mate

 

Looks awesome. Thats some nice carpet you got there at home, Paul!!

 

Hardly! lol, its in my unit, office flooring!! :shakehead:

 

Paul

And the pads did you tired them and how they compare to 3m???

Regards

 

Nice, thank you for the feed back eace:

 

wow...... it looks very very nice!!!! good that i haven't bought the makita, then i will have a chance to get this!

 

Hi Guys,

Well, well, what a day I have had playing about with the Festool polishers, most enjoyable I must say.

Absolutely love the Shinex and the Rap 80 (baby polisher), can't fault either machine so far, tomorrow I will be detailing a Porsche, so we will see what tomorrow brings..

This is what I have been trying them out on today...

 

love the bonnet! vans looking awesome Paul

 

i agree with you guys. The new festool shinex is perfect, but i prefer the sound of Makita 9227CB. We had the oportunity to test it during cwwc2009 which is one of the biggest wax-tests in the world.
I would like to buy the small one. Paul can you please give us some feedback?

 

yes very nice but will all the current pads an backing plates from the makita work with these?

also who will be selling them here in the usa?

an will they last are they strong an powerful like the makita an pc?

thanks PD

 

The shinex is a very good machine. I tried it yesterday at a festool dealer.

You can use the 3M Adapters and also with the small pads. The only thin i dont like is the power plug. I liked the version from the rotex better.

The shinex is very good but in europe it costs about 600eur

 

600eur is about 836usd..wow...

 

Yup, got some pricing from the local agents here and the Shinex is 3 times the price of a Makita....Crazy IMHO

 

i bought mine for 466 EUR with the case, 2 pads, 2 bottles of polish (which look like menzerna), one bottle of detailing spray (looks and smells like dilluted Meg's APC) and some wet sanding paper.
My friend payed for his shinex 600 EUR in Germany. The small one costs 361 EUR but i still don't know if its worth this money.

 

Hello Paul,
whats now the result of your comparison between the Makita and the Shinex?
Did you now change your Makita into a Shinex?

Regards
Hendrik

 

Its good to meet some well-known persons here (metys, HSCOOL) .
Metys, did you not payed tax because your price for the complete set is different from what I know.

 

Found this:

FESTOOL 570767 SHINEX ROTARY POLISHER RAP150 FE GB 240V - eBay (item 200351375279 end time Jul-10-09 12:30:00 PDT)