polishing tip

[pokeatyou2]

i have been doing a lot of polishing lately and i was getting fed up with the amount of sanding required. so i decided to try something different on my throttle cover. instead of sanding i wacked a fine wire brush on my dremel and started brushing it. it took all the paint off and also started to bring out a little shine , then rubbed it with a bit of steel wool . the wire brush on the dremel spins to fast to leave any huge scrathces steel wool is the only manual process i did then i polished it on my bench grinder with a loose leaf buff and white compound as i usually do to finsh jobs. alittle mothers aluminium polish to finish and it came up awesome the whole process took a little over an hour. it saved a lot of time then going through every grit sand paper.

Edited March 4, 2007 by pokeatyou2

[baddsheee]

I think you're in the wrong forum :shoothead:

[ClimbAnyHill]

Thanks for the tip, I might try that!! :thumbsup: Thanks for posting your idea.

[pokeatyou2]

I think you're in the wrong forum :shoothead:

 

 

does it really matter that much . if u want to get techical about it baddsheee polishing is a modification is it not. ::

does anbody agree with me?

[fox_forma]

isnt a little over an hour still a fairly decent amount of time to do something like the throttle cover? I dont polish stuff but for something that small to take an hour I could only imagine how long it would take for something like a clutch cover.

[pokeatyou2]

isnt a little over an hour still a fairly decent amount of time to do something like the throttle cover? I dont polish stuff but for something that small to take an hour I could only imagine how long it would take for something like a clutch cover.

 

i spent about 12hours on my clutch cover and i think it still could have come up a little better

Edited March 5, 2007 by pokeatyou2

[theshee]

Ive tried to polish that way but I can never get the shine out of the metal that I can by sanding with all the grits.

[bansheerage]

would you happen to have a pic of how it turned out?

[zpolencheck]

I agree, this is the perfect spot for this post. Good read, I will try that.

 

 

does it really matter that much . if u want to get techical about it baddsheee polishing is a modification is it not. ::

does anbody agree with me?

[350shee]

if you do polishing for a living then 12 hours to do a clutch cover that thing better look like glass when its done, I do a clutch cover in about 3 hours and it looks good. as for the thumb throttle Cover it takes about 15-20 min for me.

[matt440rev]

will the wire brush take out the casting pits?? like on the cylinders? im trying to do my cylinders right now and it sucks, cant find anything to use, the sandpaper on the dremel just makes it worse and you cant get into the little spots with sand paper. this sucks. that stuff is a art definitly.

[ClimbAnyHill]

This is actually for the off topic forum lol!! Just kidding man..

I think this post is perfect for forum, I don't see why not..

Also, Post #2 doesn't even contribute to the thread so how does that belong in this forum

[350shee]

thats the way to do it, got to get in there with the dremel or air grinder and use little sanding bobs till its smooth then go through about $20 in the little tiny polishing discs just to make it look decent.

[DIRTMAN350]

This how my clutch cover came out with wet sanding and polishing. The pic might be a little hard to read.