Alloy & stainless polishing

[ducatilover]

Thanks for the info Big Dave I'm already an autosol slut and have used dremels/rotary tools plenty, but I've only needed them for details, not things like my frame.

[Big Dave]

Thanks for the info Big Dave I'm already an autosol slut and have used dremels/rotary tools plenty, but I've only needed them for details, not things like my frame.

Hmmm - you may right about the frame being a bridge tooo far - I did do my fork legs quite successfully though and the big engine cases looked like chromium plate after the treatment.
Be interested to hear.

[ducatilover]

When I get a dremel I'll put up a comparison shot, I'll do something half by hand and half by dremel. I think it'll be interesting.
I do have a spare ZX6 water pump I was thinking of doing and my levers.

[imdying]

A dremel is, for the most part, a waste of time. Get some decent mops and have at it. I mean its ok if you have a tiny amount of stuff, or some really small nooks and crannies, but fuck doing a frame with it, not the right tool for the job.

[Fast Eddie]

if it wasn't too expensive to ship things I would have you finish the wheels I have started.

I'm stuck, I've polished the lips myself they look good - but now the black paint in the center is all destroyed, I think I now have to strip all the paint off the wheel and repaint the centers.. but surely then I'll ruin my polished lips and have to do them again (they took way too long for me to care about polishing anything else. Shiny is cool but not hours and hours of rubbing cool. thats what porn is for)

[ducatilover]

A dremel is, for the most part, a waste of time. Get some decent mops and have at it. I mean its ok if you have a tiny amount of stuff, or some really small nooks and crannies, but fuck doing a frame with it, not the right tool for the job.

There's no way in hell I'd attempt a frame with one I'll do some silly junk like my spare water pump and lettering on some cases I'm being sent

if it wasn't too expensive to ship things I would have you finish the wheels I have started.

I'm stuck, I've polished the lips myself they look good - but now the black paint in the center is all destroyed, I think I now have to strip all the paint off the wheel and repaint the centers.. but surely then I'll ruin my polished lips and have to do them again (they took way too long for me to care about polishing anything else. Shiny is cool but not hours and hours of rubbing cool. thats what porn is for)

Stop being tight, strip the paint and send 'em up here

[imdying]

if it wasn't too expensive to ship things I would have you finish the wheels I have started.

Use a freight company instead of a courier one. Just make sure you wrap it like it's going with a freight company instead of a courier...

[Big Dave]

I'd probably do the visible parts of the frame with the small machine and use the bench machine for the hidden bits.
It's actually quite a quick process once you get the flow of it. It works small areas - but quite efficiently due to the speed of the action.

It only took a few hours to restore two Triumph fork legs to a chrome-like finish and that included removing all the clear lacquer.

All relative - Some custom polishers, particularly doing that scalloped finish can take hundreds of hours.

[Big Dave]

Yeah baby!



I'd send you the back rack if I still owned it.

[ducatilover]

That T-bird looks grouse Dave, you've done nice work on it

[Big Dave]

That T-bord looks grouse Dave, you've done nice work on it

I justa added the bit about the rack though.

[ducatilover]

I justa added the bit about the rack though.

I'd be happy to, if you still owned it

I'm trying to find some little bits and bobs I can polish on the 600 to show off, apart from everything I've done so far.

Perhaps it's time to put the GN in the garage and polish some of it up?

[Big Dave]

Perhaps it's time to put the GN in the garage and polish some of it up?

Yep - then turbo it.

[ducatilover]

Yep - then turbo it.

Done deal.
P'raps I should finish my 600 first?

[ducatilover]

So, I need a dremel eh?
Just gave this carb bowl a quick polish up (when I say quick, I'm lying)





Will try find the proper camera tonight and get pretty pics.