Thread: Polishing aluminum - again.

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About how long will it take me to polish two of these hood supports? They're 1 x 1/2 bar stock, about 38" long. I've got a buffer motor, sewn and loose buffs and white, tripoli and jewlers' compounds. I also have an electric random orbital, an air DA and a whole bunch of sandpaper wet/dry from 220 to 2000.

I'd prefer to do most of it on the buffing wheels.

i Da them with 320 do not use any thing to coarse.it will just makes more work to get them da 888 s that the sander seams to make with the paper wet sand them with 400 on a block till all da marks are gone go to 600 sand up to 1000 till all 600 marks are gone and buff

It goes fairly fast. At least faster than you might think. I polished everything here, the center section was a cast pc. that had to be sanded & then polished. Diid most of the sanding with a D.A. Some parts made on the lathe got polished while still in the chuck and the CNC parts I polished by using rubbing compound and a cheap pair of work gloves.

The question is; How long did it take to get the Black compound off of his body and clothes....... Seriously, those look great.

It's almost gone now.

Thanks.

that is nice proZ28 how would you feel helping me with my 11.500 donovan block ??

Elbow grease is on backorder. ........and I refuse to use anything that's not.

i here you that stuff is on back order . when it is in the price is to hi i pay for it . a week or two