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Title: Chrome polishing
Post by: gaf16 on December 12, 2005, 09:44 PM
what is the most effective way to polish up a chrome frame?
Title: Re: Chrome polishing
Post by: gmac on December 12, 2005, 09:46 PM
Autosol, I reckon
Title: Re: Chrome polishing
Post by: winnit93 on December 12, 2005, 10:05 PM
maas chrome (metal) polish is amazing.its american but dont hold that against it.
its still hard to find in the uk,but search its well worth it.vintage car restorers use it.
Title: Re: Chrome polishing
Post by: Waxintaxin on December 12, 2005, 10:10 PM
This has been argued before ::)
heres my take on it

Autosol , good but harsh. takes away a lot of metal and can leave a used frame looking very nickely. very good on alloy and gets a mirror finnish witha bit of effort.

Peek , good cleaner and polishes well , not too harsh and widely acclaimed in the custom car world. lot of effort needed but not bad.

dremmell / polishing mops, blocks of polish. This is the most effective , IF you dont zing the frame with the chuck :idiot2:

Wonder chrome. my favourite , seems to clean the chrome without removing a load of metal and gets the dirt off and shines the chrome very well. comes with a liquid sealer that works very well and cant reccomend this stuff enough, this stuff has out polished all the above with ease.

 
OR
take it to a polisher, and see a new bike come back.

Rich :santa_afro:
Title: Re: Chrome polishing
Post by: ash on December 12, 2005, 10:28 PM
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y4/ASH13Y/wcc100.jpg)

is this the stuff
does halfords sell it?
Title: Re: Chrome polishing
Post by: Waxintaxin on December 13, 2005, 04:56 PM
Thats the stuff , dunno I got mine from another car type place local to me , but yea that s the stuff

Rich
Title: Re: Chrome polishing
Post by: showtime on December 14, 2005, 11:45 PM
cheers guys
i knew this had been talked about before but was too lazy to search & didn't want to ask again  ::)
i must be shy :-[

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