Anyone ever thought of making a buffer?

I live in Southern West Virginia , so , the custom car thing is kinda slow here as far as having a custom shop on the corner. , I was wondering , how hard it would be to make a white wall tire buffer , I have watched all the videos on the subject I can find , and to me , it doesn't seem like it would be too hard , anyone ever attempted this? It seems to me that alot of guys are attempting to make their own wide whites , so I think there may be a market for this , what do you guys think?

 

You mean a machine instead of holding the DA in your hand?

I guess you could make one with a spin balancer and a cutting tool attachment. Kind of like having a very large lathe.

 

Yea , kinda ,I maen I have seen the DA in hand method , on the car and off the car , but , I was thinking , if a guy had a old tire balancer , mounted a , I dont know , let's say a washing machine motor on an adjustable arm , with a buffing wheel of some sort.... Ya think it could work?

 

To me accurate everything needs to be real stout. I think that diamond back shaves there's. They actually vulcanize a white wall on but they all have to be cut to size somewhere in the process.

No reason something couldn't be made to spin the tire and hold the DA or whatever you use to buff the black off.

I would be more worried about the liability, it may be harder to overcome than the machine itself. That is if you are doing someone elses tires. I'm not saying that to be negative just food for thought.

 

Yea , I guess I never thought about that , oh well, it was a thought....

 

Here's a couple of pics of tire buffing machines, the shaft spins the wheel and the grinder buffs the whitewall. I've seen them at swap meets before.

 

Seems to me that if you could afford the machine, you could afford Wides to start with.

 

It doesn't have anything to do about being able to afford them , it has to do with them being so damn expensive , you see , you buy the set of tires , you alone have a set of tires , if you buy the machine , you have as many sets of tires as you and your buds can ever use....get my drift?

 

Been there, done that. Not much to it:
http://www.polinggroup.com/sidewall_grinder.html

 

im trying to figure out how the hrinder gets a constant dig or movment on those swivels i just dont understand do you still do it by hand?