Best product to polish an ali frame?

[cheese]

While I've got my bike in bits again, I was going to give y frame a quick polish up. I recall there was some good product that you could get fro REPCO that was good to polish Aluminum?

[barty5]

While I've got my bike in bits again, I was going to give y frame a quick polish up. I recall there was some good product that you could get fro REPCO that was good to polish Aluminum?

yeh autoslov in a tube good luck

[cheese]

mint. Cheers

[hospitalfood]

there is an acid based product for alloy car wheels that will save a heap of time and effort. ask at repco or others.
do a small trial first on a hidden part of the frame.
once done a coat of good old car wax will help prevent it losing its shine.

[Rupe]

While I've got my bike in bits again,

Why, whats happened now

[cheese]

Gregs got my forks. Going to grease my steering head bearings too and thought I'd give the frame a polish.

[Pierce]

thought I'd give the frame a polish.

Can't do that on an RM or YZ :doh:

[sinfull]

theres another out there called Peek that works a treat, i got it from a mate who's a metal polisher ! He recons he's tapped into the truckies market now as they love it for polishing up the ali wheels ! www.tri-peek.com is the web addy, might have suppliers in auckland listed on there !
Think i paid 20 buck for a 100g tube which goes for miles !
edit found the nz website
http://www.peekpolish.co.nz/Dealers.htm

[flyingcr250]

yeh autoslov in a tube good luck

we use autosolv at work on chrome bumpers, stainless mouldings, and all alloy parts, also a rubbing compound called G3 is pretty good, painters use it to buff cars.

[2_SL0]

yeh autoslov in a tube good luck

Yep that's it, oh and err LOTS of elbow grease, think of the Karate kid movie, "Wax on, Wax Off, Daniel Son"

[B0000M]

all of you saying autosolv, do you mean "autosol"?

or is this somethign different again

[old git]

Easily the best thing for polishing was the ex wife!!!

[nallac]

Easily the best thing for polishing was the ex wife!!!

what?.

off the pay check?
the vodka?
ya knob?

[barty5]

all of you saying autosolv, do you mean "autosol"?

or is this somethign different again

yeh same stuff just spelling

[Cary]

If your just looking to return frame to standard look as apposed to actually polishing it I always just used a Scotch-Brite pad (you know, the green stuff) with the last of the soapy water.

Returns the frame to look like new.

[cheese]

Yeah I'll hit it with a buffing wheel on the dremel.

[thommo77]

Yep, scotchbrite pad does a surprisingly good job. Cheap too!

[laserracer]

i used a very fine sandpaper,then sandpaper and autosol, then finished with just autosol on the side covers.The swing arm was done on a polishing buff

[B0000M]

i used a very fine sandpaper,then sandpaper and autosol, then finished with just autosol on the side covers.The swing arm was done on a polishing buff

those yamahas seem to be lacking the vital property required for having a polished alloy frame lol

[laserracer]

those yamahas seem to be lacking the vital property required for having a polished alloy frame lol

Yeah i know but aluminium frames are so overrated,:dodge:
its whats in the frames that does the deed, and the nutter on the handlebars:lol:

[laserracer]

now this is a polished frame, but by the time you put everything back on you can see stuff all of the polishing

[kezzafish]

crikey, that's a CHROMED frame

[laserracer]

nah the guy polished it on a commercial polishing machine,
i read the article about it on thumper, but it sure does look like its been chromed

[laserracer]

you would need sun glasses on when the sun shines on it:eek5:

[kezzafish]

yeah that's crazy. i guess you couldn't chrome alloy could ya

[bucket boy]

you would need sun glasses on when the sun shines on it:eek5:

To maintain the shine you clean it with mothers mag and wheel cleaner then put a wax over it and it will last for years

[laserracer]

To maintain the shine you clean it with mothers mag and wheel cleaner then put a wax over it and it will last for years

just be very careful with any mag and wheel cleaner as some of them are caustic or acid based..im not saying they wont work ,but just be careful and read the labels
The older alloy mag wheel cleaners would be the ones to use they clean aluminium really well but you gotta be careful it doesnt touch anything else

[cheese]

Wow no way would I go to that much effort on something I'm going to cover in mud. Just wanted to shine it up a bit.

On a side note, how about bringing the shine back to my expansion chamber? its gone a bit rusty in spots.

[laserracer]

What sort of chamber is it ?? is it like the one in the pic of our yz 250 fmf fatty ? if so autosol is your friend ..... ive found that autosol works best if applied and removed with a terry towel kinda cloth..dunno why just seems to work better

[rubic8]

Definitely Autosol cant beat it mate it's been around forever