Machine polishing for beginners

I've just ordered myself a new Kestrel DAS6 after selling my last one because it never got used. Does anyone know where I might be able to get a step by step beginners/idiots guide to machine polishing? I'd like to get the Legacy looking good again before putting it back on the road.

Here is a link to the same question I asked it helped me as I hadn't a clue about them at all.

http://isdc.ie/discussion/index.php?topic=39952.msg455162#msg455162

A lot of step by step tutorials on YouTube.