One way to make this situation safer is to reverse the process. Spinning cloth wheels can rip things from your hands no matter how tight you think you are holding on. Instead clamp the item to be polished (protecting it from the clamp of course) then get a hand held buffing wheel and go at it. Also there is a little hand held device that looks just like a small vise. It holds your smaller work firmly, keeps your hands from getting burned or worse. Now all I want is a tool to find those small parts I drop on the floor that somehow leave the planet.
Ray Homiski
Elizabeth, NJ