polishing ?

[troop of doom]

hey i jsut started polishing and it doesnt seem to be doing any thing im using autosol and rubbing it all over the silencer should i be using more autosol or something?

[Mungoman45]

How long did ya do it before giving up? it's not something that's easy and quick to do, it takes hours of elbow grease to get anything worth showing off. Best way to know that it's cleaning it, is look at the rag, if it's black after rubbing, then shit's comin off and it's cleaning...just take ya time.

[troop of doom]

yer it is black so yer im oging to out to do some more i will post some pics if it looks any good by tonight cya

[[TOPGEAR]]

i was gonna polish something, but cant be stuffed sitting around for hours polishing it.

will a buffer work ?

[Mungoman45]

I was originally gunna use the round pollish buffer we got for the drill, but:
* The area i wanted to polish wasn't big enough
* Ya cant apply enough pressure, it'd still take hours,
* You still need to use copius amounts of Autosol
* and they're not meant for complete pollishing from scratch, they're for shining allready pollished surfaces.

So i guess ya could give it a go, but i dont think it'll last long.

[[TOPGEAR]]

better off getting it chrome dipped for $50
on my old bike i got the exhaust and muffler done for $150 from HPC

[Mungoman45]

Sounds like someone's afraid of a lil work LOL, I'd rather spend a few hours puttin my own hard work into my bike pollishin it myself than spend money and take the easy way out. Although, maybe gettin it dipped would make it last longer.....

[[TOPGEAR]]

yeh, thats what i meant, about it lasting longer.

[mulisha_mike]

how long will it last if you polish it by hand?

[Mungoman45]

It'll last forever if ya keep up with it, cleaning wise. It's just pollishing and chrome dipping are 2 different things. Pollish is just shining the metal to a reflective finish, it's essentially buffing off the protective layer on the metal bringin it back to bare metal, where as Chrome is actually shiny all the time, so all ya'd need to do with it is give it a wash, as apposed to havin to repolish it all the time to keep the shine

[wayne]

my frame was nicely polished, went in the mud and and a few more days od riding and its scratched to all ****. gotta give it a bit of loving soon.