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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: motomagII on February 16, 2007, 09:21 AM
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got alloy wheel rims to polish the sides .got the rough wet and dry and given em good rub down got most of the marks off em .what next ?
do i just rub em down bit with fine grit and them cloth polish em with alloy polish .wanna try get em to shime pretty good .
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through the grades of wet and dry
then i use polish , sppeds it all up a bit
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What rims are they. For example Araya aeros are anodised silver so all the polishing in the world will be in vain until you strip off the annodising.
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Look at what this guy does... :smitten:
http://www.raleighburner.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php't=7996
Here's his info, he does very good annodising, apparently.
http://www.raleighburner.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php't=7948
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sent him mail already to get price for reanno but then its postage and strip rebuild costs .
they are gold ann but the sides are worn away so ive stripped the remaining anno off the side wall only and now wanna polish them .
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just go down the grades greg.
i start at 400 and go down to 1200.
then a bit of autosol.
then t,cut
then autoglym.
by that time your arms should be falling off.
but you'll have a nice shiny set of rims.
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use a polishing wheel :daumenhoch:
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you need to wet n dry Through staged papers down to 1500/2000 grit paper.... then take some used 2000 grti and do it again.... then cream polish.
Polishing is just scratching a surface to a finer and finer degree ;)