Quick polishing question

[ar0ck]

I want to polish a couple odds & ends laying around in my garage, any suggestions for a decent inexpensive compound to use? I bought a small dremel polishing kit and just want to go to town on a couple MAF ends laying around.

[sweetbmxrider]

mothers aluminum polish? usually works good by hand, probably shine up real nice with a dremel

[HardcoreZ28]

Mother's is usually pretty good. Or you can go out and buy a few blocks of polish at a hardware store. Black for really rough stuff, and I believe it's blue for finishing.

[BigRocsFirebird]

i use mother's for my TT2s and it comes up really good i also have the power ball for it. when i use it by hand there is a differnce between that and the power ball both work great but by hand is a little bit better to my eyes.

[ar0ck]

The pieces I want to polish are in pretty rough shape so I think maybe i'll pick up the blocks & mothers.

[WildBillyT]

Originally Posted by ar0ck

The pieces I want to polish are in pretty rough shape so I think maybe i'll pick up the blocks & mothers.

Hope Depot sells black, white, and red polishing blocks (actually they are tubes). I've used them and they did a decent job.

[T96-Iroc-z]

Home Depot sells a little polishing kit that goes on a drill ..use that with some mothers polish and its saves allot of work...if you want a show type of finish you can wet sand it with 1000 grit then polish it...

[Featherburner]

Originally Posted by ar0ck

The pieces I want to polish are in pretty rough shape so I think maybe i'll pick up the blocks & mothers.

If they are rough, start off with wet sand paper in the 220 range and work up to 800 or so then switch to the buffing compounds and rouge.

[ar0ck]

I couldn't find the polishing compound from Home Depot, I looked all over the place and of course the employees were worthless. I'll give it another shot tomorrow in another store. Does anyone know the name of it?

[Featherburner]

Found this online. it says in stores only. http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/...ctId=100520863

[maroman88]

Originally Posted by Featherburner

Found this online. it says in stores only. http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/...ctId=100520863

linky no workyyyy

[NastyEllEssWon]

mothers power ball polishing kit

[ar0ck]

I'm just planning on polishing a spare set of fuel rails, maf ends, throttle body & cleaning up the runners on my intake. Tiny stuff for a dremel not a powerball.

[NastyEllEssWon]

they make a tiny one (as pictured)

[Rich189]

Sears home depot etc sell blocks... white rouge, black, red etc depending how rough it is then i would hit it up with some regular metal polish after the white rouge just to get the last little bit out of it i personally use wolfgang concours or menzerna

[jims69camaro]

jeweler's rouge. it's a fine red powder than comes in a little plastic cup with a lid. should have come with your dremel if you bought the polisher's set.

i shined up all of my flatware (years of scraping against teeth, stains from coffee and what-not), my jewelry and my wife's, even worked the scratches out of a watch crystal. it's good stuff.

[Featherburner]

Originally Posted by maroman88

linky no workyyyy

Works here.

[Pampered-Z]

If your just trying to polish up surfaces that are already smooth then just use an type of Alum. polish. Mothers, McGuires, etc. will work fine.

If you are trying to do more, like removing casting marks, port the inside of the MAF, then you are going to need to use abrassives, and the Dremel is going to make it tuff, mostly because they don't make quality Mandrels and sanding rolls, although Jewery polishing kits might have some. To do serious porting/polishing you really need a good diegrinder.

if needed, try here:

http://www.progresstool.com/cat_polishing.cfm