I'm trying to polish my corny kegs to make them look as good as possible. I've read several threads on here about keg polishing. I don't know if anyone else tried this method, but I just want to report that a six inch spiral-sewn buffing wheel intended for a bench grinder mounted to a drill with a drill arbor doesn't seem to go fast enough to do much good.
I tried a corded and a cordless drill, but neither spins particularly fast. I tried using Ryobi emory compound that comes in a push-up tube. It's fairly hard stuff. The wheel has a hard time picking up much of the compound with the slow spinning limit of the drill. Then when applied to the keg, it hardly makes a noticeable difference.
Bench grinders spin much faster than my drills and would probably do a much better job. But holding a keg up against a bench grinder-mounted wheel doesn't seem like an easy task, and I don't have a bench grinder anyhow, so I'm off to the store to see if there are any hand-held tools that can do the job. I might end up trying to use my angle grinder if I can find some kind of polishing wheel for it.
I tried a corded and a cordless drill, but neither spins particularly fast. I tried using Ryobi emory compound that comes in a push-up tube. It's fairly hard stuff. The wheel has a hard time picking up much of the compound with the slow spinning limit of the drill. Then when applied to the keg, it hardly makes a noticeable difference.
Bench grinders spin much faster than my drills and would probably do a much better job. But holding a keg up against a bench grinder-mounted wheel doesn't seem like an easy task, and I don't have a bench grinder anyhow, so I'm off to the store to see if there are any hand-held tools that can do the job. I might end up trying to use my angle grinder if I can find some kind of polishing wheel for it.