Baird,

 

I have if the tables are large enough and you have a 1o or 13 inch floor machine with a short handle these work the best . if not I find I can hone with the makita  hand machine as quick as anything, you can use these other devises but make sure your technician hold the machine flat on the surface or you will wave the stone.

 

How did you bid the job ?using a Makita or another a different size machine.

 

Once you bid a job the process and the size of the machine should have already been determined. Therefore your price and profits were based upon the process and the equipment you bid. Switching process and or equipment just o get off the quicker should have been taken into consideration. If you bid a job for  4 days and then when you actually do the job you get done in 2 days the customer could question why the difference in time.

Then the customer looks at the price for the number of day then could feel they paid too much for 2 day service when the job was bid for 4 days of service. The customer not question value for the price.

 

After that lecture you can use a 7 Inch pad for honing, you can use a floor machine provided you have a machine with a short handle, I do not recommend you try to stand on the table and use the floor machine.

 

My experience is use the equipment you plan on using when you bid the job.

John E. Freitag

President/Director

The Stone and Tile School

Office 407-567-7652

Cell 407-615-0134

jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com

 

 

www.thestoneandtileschool.com

 

 

 

Hi, We are starting a job grinding, honing and polishing some old marble tables (large areas), and was curious if anyone has much experience or comment about going with one of those flex or intertool planetary head honing/polishing machines.  I typically just use makitas with appropriate heads and also have one of those aluminum three socket heads that goes onto a makita.  Am thinking it is just as easy to go with 7" electroplated discs. These are old marble tables that were used to make candy, and they will continue to make candy with them, so they don't have to look like church alters, just ding free with a satin or semi-gloss finish.

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