Wheel Polishing Jig

Go to Walmart & spend $30 on a buffer machine....


You'll have your high speed polisher then

 

Think you got the right concept but wrong idea. Having a actual engine just to turn the rim is a huge over kill. You could just simply make a hub for an electric motor and put a variable speed switch on it.

Even then you'll still want a buffer to use while the rim is spinning.

 

i think you have been watching junkyard wars too much--sounds more like helicopter you are trying to build
you really dont need anything to high speed--just take a look and a few pics at the commercial polishers set up--and away you go

 

i saw a guy on utube jake up his car put it in gear so back wheels turn, then he just sat there with a cloth and polish compond

 

As much as I enjoy creative engineering--and could see myself and a couple of my other motorhead buddies doing this for S***S&Giggles--I have to say--there are just too many places around the country where you can get polished for a very reasonable price--I know you have to sift thru all the BS--crackheads etc. that claim to be polishers--but it can be done--so on a cost basis I just couldn't justify it--now if you would take that same perfectly good almost running 4wheel drive pick up--dump 100man hours and 10k into the motor--mount a vega body on top of it--find a way to mate a perfectly good double reduction gearbox out of a wrecked Pete to it--just to pull a homemade sled 100ft at the local fairground Sat. nite--so you can drink beer with your buddies--just so you can say--it's not like we were just sitting around at the bar BSing--Now that is a perfectly reasonable expenditure! LMAO

 

Building something like this guy did would be safer than getting your arm ripped off using the truck to spin the wheel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md2UHSQgZ6Q