Pictures - May 2nd & 3rd 2026 Class in Stuart Florida - Dr. Beasley's & Mike Phillips

Mike Phillips · 2026-06-23T10:33:52-0400

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Training Car Number #2 - 2006 Corvette Z01 - Gear-Driven Orbital Polishers

While the first training car, (first thing in the morning), was focused on how to use a rotary polisher, for this second training car the focus is on gear-driven orbital polishers for the first step of this 2-Step Paint Correction and Ceramic Coating process.

Here's Ron testing out the FLEX Supa BEAST while Don is using the original FLEX XC 3401 VRG aka The BEAST!

Here's Aaron testing out the BEAST!

You can easily tell the original BEAST due to the exposed aluminum housing at the head of the polisher. All FLEX gear-driven polishers made after this XC 3401 VRG still have the aluminum housing, it's just behind a plastic shroud.

Here's Michal testing out the Supa BEAST

Second Step - Refining the results from the first more aggressive step

For this second step, the class is free to choose any polisher they want to get more time with or test out for the first time. This includes any of the gear-driven or free spinning, orbital polishers in our $50.000.00 collection of tools for our classes.

Here's Quentin testing out the Harbor Freight HC109B Forced Rotation Dual Action Polisher

Most of the online detailing world call this polisher the Hercules and I get it, most of these guys are typing on their phone so they just refer to it as the Hercules - BUT - the word Hercules is a name for a Sub-Brand under the Harbor Freight umbrella. There are also drills, impact wrenches, saws, etc. which I guess the online detailing world would also simply call ALL of these tool - the Hercules - LOL

See the aluminum head? This is pretty much, an exact copy of the FLEX XC 3401 VRG - except I don't know that they copied the FLEX 7-Function Microprocessor that comes in all FLEX polishers

Here's the link to my full review for this copy of the FLEX BEAST

Review: Harbor Freight Hercules HC109B Forced Rotation Dual Action Polisher by Mike Phillips

And here's my article on the FLEX 7-Function Microprocessor

The 7-Function Microprocessor Inside FLEX Polishers by Mike Phillips

Here's Michael testing out the RUPES Cordless BigFoot 15

Aaron started out with the BEAST and for the second polishing step he's switched over to the Supa BEAST.

Here's Don testing gout the original BEAST for final polishing

Looks like Ron is now testing out the Griot's Garage G9 - in my opinion and experience the best performing FREE SPINNING, random orbital polishers. By this I mean, this G9 does the best job of maintaining good pad rotation and pad oscillation when buffing out curved panels where all other free spinning, random orbital polishers suffer and sometimes suffer BADLY from pad stalling.