Polishing Tunnel
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My wife loves it when I polish her tunnel. She said it works best with a hot dickens cider
She just got a new taurus from pinkley ford, so while I'm polishing her tunnel, I usually buff her pinkley taurus
Is that one of those fancy Taurus models, the CL model, you know cl-taurus?
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aksnomachinechic
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here is the stuff I used
and this is how it turned out
Daaaaaaaammmmnnn!!! That is just too pretty to ride now. That's one bling bling tunnel you got there!! Does it have a hydraulic lift kit too??
one more question: Does your silverware look this good too??
OK, I got bored waiting for snow and decided to try this polishing tunnel thing. I started out with 400 grit and wet sanded every 200 grit to 2200. I washed tunnel off with water and let dry. I applied Mothers polish and buffed with mini ball in a small area. I got a gray sticky film that does not want to shine up or polish. I washed it off and tried again and got the same thing. I have rubbed hard with a terrycloth towel, and it keeps giving me a dull gray sometimes almost black film that will not rub or buff out until I wash it off.
What am I missing?
What am I missing?
Not to say that the mothers ball is useless but I also bought one and was not impressed so I went to home depot and bought some buffing wheels and compound with an arbor and used my drill. I am still working on it but this is the fasted way to do it in my opinion. The buffing wheel are like $6/ea and the compound is $3.5 per tube, much cheaper and faster then the $20 mothers ball and $10 bottle of polish.
One of these days you guys will have to quit playing around with your drills and rags, and polishing liquids, and buy a wheel for the grinder, and some $2 jeweler's rouge, and do it right. LOL.
What I'm wondering is if the sanding residue is not getting washed off? Could it be mixing in the polish and causing the problem? Do I need to do some kind of acid wash?
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aksnomachinechic
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Here's a link with some tips for you
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3825/is_200209/ai_n9123869
good luck!
81 I did not mention it but I did get tired of my drill and went and bought a 4.5" grinder, I have not used it yet but @ 10,000 RPM's I think its going to work much better then my drill did. I will post pics when I finish. I am hoping to get the rest of it done on Sunday but not holding my breath, even with buffing wheels it take a while to make a tunnel look like a mirror. I am also planning on doing the rails, and everything under the hood.
I started with mothers and didn't have any luck and was just about to give up but when I got the polishing cream in the pic thats when I finally got it to shine. A freind of mine is a truck driver and they know how to polish aluminum I used his variable speed buffer and started with the lowest speed 600 rpm and finished with 900 rpm and no wet sanding.
les schwabs tires, has some polish called Heavy Metal in corse, medium and ultra fine. I use the corse the first time and med. the second time with a direct drive veriable speed buffer, then by hand with the ultra fine. I dont know if anybody has said that it is important to polish with the grain of the aluminum
and good luck
and good luck
Turning METAL into MIRRORS is easy when following our polishing tips. Here's another shot showing the results of wet sanding then polishing by hand with BUSCH Super Shine Aluminum Polish.
http://2koolperformance.ca/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=132&t=2473&st=0#entry30040
http://2koolperformance.ca/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=132&t=2473&st=0#entry30040
Wow that is impressive!
How long it take to polishing by hand after the wet sanding?
Less than a bottle fo rum to do both...autosol metal polish and a variable speed grinder at 600 rpm then 900 with a rag wheel.
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