7" Electric Buffers for Buffing and Polishing

Even if you are a hobbyist, a professional buffer is always nice and handy to have.
My favorites are DeWalt and Makita. I think the Makita just edges over the DeWalt by I like both.

If you are a professional, you'll need to get a variable speed as there were be many instances where you'll want to turn down and up the speed.
I think (not positive) that the Makita variable speed buffers come with a 'delay'. This is one feature that I really could live without.
Ergonomically, I like the Makita, the DeWalt handle is slightly bigger.

You can set these up to have a hard pad with nut and screw the pads on. Normally these pads are the wool type pads.
The most common setup is to have the velcro pad and to use the foam pads.

I have listed some of the normal type aggresiveness of the pads
Also, If you use the 3M type polish and compounds, the color of the compound normally goes with the pad color
white foam

wool pad - most aggressive (the do made these velcro backing instead of the nut setup) - White Compound
white foam pad - White Compound
black foam pad - Black polish
blue foam pad - Blue Polish

There are others as well, red foam pads, orange foam pads, green foam pads....

TIP: You can alway remove the pad and put on a 3M 8" sticky pad and turn this into a paint stripper. We have 2 buffers on hand along with one buffer we keep this 8" pad on in case we have panels or parts to strip.

As a final process of buffing and polishing, you can use an "orbital polisher" which orbits like a DA (Dual Action) sander.
The professional units are 11" and are heavier.
You can purchase cheaper ones but I don't think they do a good job. I have included some of the professional 11" units below.
I personally have 11" GEM Industries Orbital Polisher.

No matter what you need, I'm sure you will find it here.