Anyone know Wgtn place to get a muffler sleeve polished?

[Velox]

I've got a stainless steel sleeve for my exhaust that I want to get polished up real well (and then sand-blast a design onto it maybe) and there's only so much I seem to be able to do with a pot of metal polish. So does anyone know where I can take it and they can run it through some polisher-type machine? In Wellington that is.

[louisb]

There is a very good place called cycleworks. i got my rear shock rebuilt there and they specialise in exhausts. I'd be very surprised if they don't do polishing.

www.cycleworks.co.nz
Cycleworks Motorcycle Exhausts

168 Eastern Hutt Rd Lower Hutt Wellington 04 939 2925

[aff-man]

Almost all workers of metal will have a propper buffer with that buffing wax stuff. Best to try the guys at a stainless steel fabrication or boatyard. I got my old stainless pipe welded and buffed at a stainless marine repair place. all for like $10 or something

[WINJA]

SANDPAPER , STEELO WITH SOAP AND WATER THEN AURI CAR POLISH, ITLL COME UP LIKE A MIRROR SO YOU CAN SEE YOUR UGLY MUG

[Paul in NZ]

Ohh Bugger I lost their card...

Call by British Spares in the Hutt and there will be a card from the dud that does most of the alloy case polishing for the brit bike restorers. Apparently he's pretty good!

Cheers

[FROSTY:Me]

I'd suggest ya do things the other way round.Get all ya screw holes sorted then the desighn carved in THEN get any metal polisher to polish the can up.
What I would do is mark with felt pen what place the desighn needs to be to be to sit right on the muffler.

[matthewt]

You could ring Mark from Neptune Mufflers. IIRC he gets his polishing down by a shop nearby.

[Velox]

Cheers for the advice guys! It's only a pretty minor job for them to do but it's good to know a couple of places where I can take it.


Frosty - the plan's to polish it all real well and then tape off the areas I want to stay polished and then sandblast the rest of it (hopefully it'll rough it up enough for a bit of contrast). Might even add in a couple of touches of heat resistant paint, but nothing major - I'll see how it goes. Then I'll put some rivets in it but I figure any mess made drilling the holes will be covered by the rivet itself.

[skidMark]

but if you take it somewhere no1 gets to see a babe polishing a muffler in a bikini

like thatll ever happen

lol

[Velox]

like thatll ever happen

You're onto it bro.


Edit: My smilie died!!!! Oh the humanities!

[NC]

I can take it to the dudes up the road from my work and do it for you free

[Velox]

I can take it to the dudes up the road from my work and do it for you free

Oooh! That'd be real good! Cheers mate! Shall I drop it at Nick's, since I don't know where your new place is and since his place is closer? Yay!!!

[Pixie]

Cheers for the advice guys! It's only a pretty minor job for them to do but it's good to know a couple of places where I can take it.


Frosty - the plan's to polish it all real well and then tape off the areas I want to stay polished and then sandblast the rest of it (hopefully it'll rough it up enough for a bit of contrast). Might even add in a couple of touches of heat resistant paint, but nothing major - I'll see how it goes. Then I'll put some rivets in it but I figure any mess made drilling the holes will be covered by the rivet itself.

An alternative to sand blasting might be etching

[NC]

Oooh! That'd be real good! Cheers mate! Shall I drop it at Nick's, since I don't know where your new place is and since his place is closer? Yay!!!

Sweet as

[Velox]

An alternative to sand blasting might be etching

Oh yeah - that's an idea. Could even do a kind of grid style etching which would look good, but that'd take ages. Depends how big an area I end up doing I guess.


Cheers NC! - I'll drop it round at Nick's on Thurs night.