Auto Obsessed here cordless mini polishers why are manufacturers building these machines and how do
we as professional detailers evaluate whether a particular cordless mini polisher belongs in our
shop mini polishers are a necessary tool for most paint correction jobs when vehicles have
intricate Bodywork and this could be aerodynamic wings, canards, small areas around the ducts
inlets or patches of bodywork around windows, doors, narrow a-pillars, c-pillars these are
areas where a standard 5 or 6 inch polisher machine is just too big to be effective, the pad
is too big and polishing here would make a mess or damage adjacent areas like on a slim a-pillar
you run a six inch pad there and you're gonna have a mess around those window seals or worse
you could burn the paint off because only a small portion of that pad is in contact with the area
so we need mini polishers smaller machines that can run 1 inch, 2 inch or 3 inch polishing
pads this segment of the paint correction market is heating up with lots of new innovations and in
this video we'll review the all new polisher from Griot's Garage this is The BOSS Hybrid
Micro Polisher it's Griot's Garage first cordless electric micro polisher when I met with Griot's
Garage at the last SEMA show they reported that this tool has been in development for over four years
which is a long product development cycle but thankfully for us it means their engineers had
plenty of time to work out the kinks and make a nice top tier polishing machine Effectiveness,
does the machine have the power and the form factor to correct the paint on these small areas
does it have enough power and torque to drive the pads well this machine has plenty of power in both
rotary and da modes it has a 10 amp brushless motor it's powerful and quiet it runs off a 12
volt 2.5 amp hour lithium ion battery and the run time is approximately between 20 and 55
minutes and that'll depend on the configuration you're polishing with so you'll get longer times
if you're using smaller backing plates can it polish the small areas I need to reach well the
machine is very compact it actually has a pivoting head with four locking positions and this is the
first that we've seen this is for convenience and access so the pivoting head has four positions
you have I'll just bring it here you have 15 degrees and just give it a press 30 degrees
45 degrees and 90 degrees the pivoting function of the machine I think has a few advantages so one
is body so easier on your body maybe we don't have to lean and and bend over and go into some awkward
positions whether we're sitting or whether we're standing trying to reach the awkward positions if
we're polishing low for example if you've got a traditional setup where you've got the 90
degrees you know you're not going to have a lot of room between the panel we're going to be holding
machine kind of awkwardly this gives us the advantage I can switch to 45 and now I actually
have a better position to to hold my shoulders in my arms maybe I don't have to reach down as much
like this so it does have a couple advantages uh in in the video you'll see we were polishing the
rear quarter kind of the C pillars on the Ford GT350 R and if we would have had the polisher to
90 degree the polisher would have come in contact with a quarter panel so adjusting the angle we
have the machine far enough away and once again we can adjust our body position so it's a little bit
safer for our body safer for the car so I think Griot's Garage did a great job of incorporating
the pivoting head into the polisher also to help with the small areas it comes with a 1 inch, 2
inch and 3 inch backing plates can it do heavy cutting this machine has both rotary and orbital
modes so the rotary is available for heavier cutting and correction and the random orbital mode
is for mid to light polishing and finishing and it has a quick change system so you can quickly
change between the Dual Action mode and the rotary mode so to do that we just pull back on the head
put in the adapter in this case the rotary adapter and just lock it down change it simply just do the
same thing pull it back put it in lock it in so very very quick change system and this is
a tool that's changed to go between the rotary and the Dual Action you will need the tool when
you're putting on the backing plates and that is standard in the industry so to screw on the
backing plate then you just need the tool that's supplied just to lock it into place so in this
case we have the 1 inch dual action head on we can do a quick change so if we want to run
maybe 2 inch on rotary just put on the two inch backing plate same thing we just screw that on
I just need the tool to lock it down and that's just to lock the backing plate into the adapter
now when you're polishing you can do quick connects between the two
quite easily and this is fully tool-less and just pull it back and just change it
okay so quite easy to switch between the two systems
next ergonomics is it easy to hold and operate can I use the machine for a long period of time
without getting sore or tired are the controls easy to access or do they take extra effort to
adjust well the machine only weighs 1.1 kilograms now that's fully loaded so that's with the battery
on it and with the Dual Action head so this weighs only 1.1 kilograms fully loaded it's actually very
lightweight and balanced extremely well the speed controller also has a clever feature
this LED display has three sets of numbers on it so the top one here this is the job counter
so this is to record the polishing time for a particular job and you can reset this at the
beginning of the job just uh before you do your correction you simply just hold down the negative
sign for four seconds and it'll reset the job counter the second display here is the odometer
so this is the lifetime hours on the entire tool so the life of the tool hours are displayed here
and lastly this shows the speed of the machine so this shows the RPMs and I'll just demonstrate
here so on speed one it has 2000 RPMs and we go to Speed 2 2800 RPMs 3600 RPMs 4400 RPMs
5200 RPMs and speed 6 is 5800 RPMs it also has a variable speed controller here so I just have
it lightly pressed right now but all the way up that's our full 5800 RPMs so a neat little
display here that we haven't seen before that'll be useful in knowing the life of the tool and also
if you are recording how long you're spending on a particular job that has that function as well
what's in the box Griot's Garage currently has one configuration for the polisher and this is what
you get so beautiful carrying case in here you have the micro polisher you have your dual action
and your rotary adapter backing plates 1 inch, 2 inch and 3 inch it comes with the tool to
to secure the backing plate onto the appropriate adapter one battery and the charger in the case
it also has room for some of the accessories we talked about so the additional rotary extension
the longer extension extra battery spot so if you do purchase a second battery we have that
already there and then it also has a place too if you wanted to put the pads in the box as well
so this complete package comes together this is everything that is included currently and
then all the accessories as well will be able to sell those individually if you want to add to the
existing kit and some additional notes we'd like to mention the machine in rotary mode it's not
recommended by Griot's Garage to exceed 4 400 RPMs when using a 2 inch backing plate also note in
rotary mode you can only use the 1 inch and the 2 inch backing plate so that's a recommendation
by Griot's Garage in dual action with a 13 mm dual action adapter you can use the 1 inch, 2 inch
or 3 inch also the extension adapters are only for rotary so the one that it comes with
the short one and the accessory long one is only available in rotary mode another thing I'd like
to mention is this machine kind of covers most of the base is it and if you're on a budget or
you want to minimize how many machines you have pairing this up with the G9 so the G9
has the ability to run a 5 and a 6 inch backing plate so if you pair the two together you'd have
a machine that covers off 1 inch, 2 inch, 3 inch and then with the G9 you'd have a 5 inch
and a 6 inch so you'd have dual action modes 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6, rotary modes you'd
have 1 and 2 so you basically have all your bases covered with only using two machines and
and keeping the cost down quite a bit as well so I think that'd be a great combo for those looking
for a simple solution accessories so Griot's Garage has a number of accessories that will
be available they do have a power inverter that's going to be available shortly and that so you can
replace the battery and plug it into the wall one thing kind of cool on that is the cord that
it uses is actually the same cord that's used on all the current Griot's Garage polishing machine
so you can use the cord from one of the other machines if you maybe have a shorter cord or
a longer cord already you can use that cord on that adapter also they're going to have
a longer extension available for the rotary mode and this will give you a longer reach into those
tight areas extra batteries will be available along with extra backing plates and also it it
utilizes the entire BOSS Polishing System so all the one inch two inch and three inch pads from the
BOSS Polishing System are designed to work with this tool the four different compounds depending
on what you're going to use if you're going to use the three polishing compounds and then finish it
off with their sealant or if you're going to use the whole system all of that is also available
to be used with this polishing system as well another criteria we consider always is after sales
support will we be able to get warranty service or spare parts for the machine years down the road
well Griot's Garage has one of the best warranties in the business and Auto Obsessed is an authorized
warranty center if you bought your machine at Auto Obsessed simply contact us should you have
any problems with your Griot's Garage machine and we'll contact Griot's Garage on your behalf for
repairs or replacement final thoughts on the Griot's Garage Hybrid Micro Polisher overall
a fantastic build the machine is very ergonomic very balanced fits perfectly in my hand all the
controls are right here too the trigger controlled is naturally your hand goes to it on the side here
the trigger lock right there my thumb no issues hitting that button no problems there whatsoever
with my thumb as well I can adjust the speed controller so I can adjust from speed 1 to speed
6 no problems there at all on the pivoting head with the main hand I can just press the button I
can control the pivot there no problem with my second hand same thing and the pivot head works
extremely well you just have to press the release to unlock it and then it locks really really tight
the ergonomics are are added a little bit too on the machine design with the pivoting head because
the motor's sitting here so we've got a big area here to hold on to and your hand naturally wants
to grab that part so really solid fits really naturally in there they've added a lot of rubber
too and the rubber is nice for a few different functions the rubber is nice for comfort it has
a little bit of vibration dampening grip as well if your hands are wet or have some compound on it
and possibly a little bit of safety too so should the machine come in contact with a car or a panel
we we have a little bit of added safety there too the switch Quick Change system is awesome
very very easy to use to quick change between the different heads where we're going rotary
or you're going dual action very very easy just pull back put it in the only note I have it just
has a caution just make sure you're fully locked in before you proceed you wouldn't
want that head to fall on the vehicle and do some damage but very very easy to use I think
overall Griot's Garage made a fantastic machine it's everything you need to polish in those
small areas and I think this would be a great addition to your garage the Griot's Garage BOSS
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