When I worked for the kitchen shop (made kitchens for hospitals and restaraunts, all stainless steel work), they used a flexible shaft with buffing wheels (the round pads that are stitched together with a hole in the middle) on the end to make a pad about 6" wide (or thick). This would be hooked to a motor on a portable table which could move around the shop. They had a separate one for each grade of rouge or polish they used.
Polishing
When I worked for the kitchen shop (made kitchens for hospitals and restaraunts, all stainless steel work), they used a flexible shaft with buffing wheels (the round pads that are stitched together with a hole in the middle) on the end to make a pad about 6" wide (or thick). This would be hooked to a motor on a portable table which could move around the shop. They had a separate one for each grade of rouge or polish they used.
Rick Crawford at Smoky Forge