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New Product Announcement - Smaller Backing Plate for Flex XC3401

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New Product Announcement - Smaller Backing Plate for Flex XC3401

A few weeks ago we received a large shipment of Flex XC3401 VRG Dual Action polishers and also received a few new items to test out, a new Flex backing plate!

Flex is coming out with a new, smaller backing plate for the XC3401. It is being called a 4 inch plate but specifically the prototypes that I have are 4 3/8". This is a perfect size for 5.5" pads.

Here is how the new plate compares in size to the original Flex backing plate. As you can see it installs onto the XC3401 the exact same way with Flex's proprietary gears.




Once on the polishing machine, this new backing plate is a perfect fit



I feel this is an improvement over the original plate because you can now use smaller pads. A lot of users prefer 5.5 inch pads over the 6.5 for faster paint correction plus you can get into tighter areas



Here I am lining up a Lake Country 5.5 inch Crimson Hydro-Tech pad



Yes, that feels nice. Really nice!



The Flex XC3401 and new Flex 4 3/8" backing plate and a 5.5 inch pad!



Perfectly balanced



Coming soon to Autogeek. March 2011

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