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bgmart450
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Just curious for a winter project. Can the spokes and textured parts of the 80's mags be polished? Would the std compund+elbow grease then polish+elbow grease be the way to go?
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Dink
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Yes you can but it will never look quite as flash as a smooth area, after polishing. BTW buy an 8" bench grinder and polishing wheels , it makes it heaps easier.
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Anonymous
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Yes. Prety much anything can be polished if you work at it, some things look better than others, but that's it.
Nope. I agree with Dink (amazing, hey Dink?
), the only way to go is a power polisher. That rough sand cast suface finish is going to take a LOT of work to get it smooth. I would first get them bead blasted, which will give you a nice, matte finish to start with. Then you need to use a number of flapper wheels to get things to a smooth satin finish, then start your polishing. Doing it by hand would take all winter and be brutal. Even with a polishing wheel on a grinder, you will have a tough time getting into the little corners and tight spots.Mark
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SqDancerLynn1
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Take a look at Keith's bike GS1000
http://home.comcast.net/~keith.krause/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html
http://home.comcast.net/~keith.krause/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html
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80gs1000e
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SqDancerLynn1 said:
Yeah, that thing is sweet! But it sickens me also....mine will never be that clean! Arrrrrgh!!! :x
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Robert Corrie
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Use a hand held "die grinder" or dotco.You can get them from Harbor Frieght plug it into your air compressor and have at it.
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feelergaugephil
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Wheels
Wheels
Of course they can..... best thing to do is:- get them bead blasted.... then mask off the areas that you want to be polished then get them powdercoated, remove the tape and work at them with soap/water and 400 sandpaper and gradually go higher with the grade and you will have mirror wheels.
Check my wheels at GS1000G PICS uploaded in the forum...
Wheels
Of course they can..... best thing to do is:- get them bead blasted.... then mask off the areas that you want to be polished then get them powdercoated, remove the tape and work at them with soap/water and 400 sandpaper and gradually go higher with the grade and you will have mirror wheels.
Check my wheels at GS1000G PICS uploaded in the forum...
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alan
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SqDancerLynn1 said:
That's a s*@#tload of elbow grease! Nice!
