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My simplified polishing test

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Lots of work makes the cases purty.

Dremel grinding wheel - 100 - 400 - 800 - 1000 - 2000 ----- brown - white - green ----- shiny

You can see my wife smiling in the reflection. :D
 
The easiest way to fix the b4 cover is to replace it.
It would be a justifiable purchase with as much damage as it's showing.
Very nice work. That is a new decal, right?
 
Wow, nice. Makes me wanna start ripping mine apart and polish away!
 
holy crap...time to make a trip to harbor freight for some polishing stuff

man i cant belive it looks so good
 
ValorSolo said:
The easiest way to fix the b4 cover is to replace it.
It would be a justifiable purchase with as much damage as it's showing.
Very nice work. That is a new decal, right?
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but the cheap way was to do what GT did......

and all he had to pay for was a new decal....


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ValorSolo said:
The easiest way to fix the b4 cover is to replace it.
It would be a justifiable purchase with as much damage as it's showing.
Very nice work. That is a new decal, right?
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I couldn't find another cover that looked as good as the after, so I decided to take it on. I would have been polishing no matter what. Most of the time was spent going between 100 and 400 grit getting all the scratches out. Haven't seen a used one that wasn't scratched up. ;)

I restored the decal as well by hand....kidding...yes it's a new one.
 
I recall seeing that from your build thread awhile back and I'm still impressed seeing it again. Dang fine work GT. How much time did you spend on the wheel with each of the compounds and what wheels did you use with each compound?
 
I used a 4" angle grinder I picked up for $20 at Lowes with this wheel.
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Time spent with the polishing wheel was actually not that long. Probably 30 - 45 minutes. But by that time I had it down to a 2000 grit surface.

Most of my time was spent wet sanding with 400 grit. The fine scratches were the hardest thing to get out. There was a lot of trial and error. As one point I grabbed a 3M stripping wheel and tried it on the case. Not good. It took a long time to get all of those scratches out. This case took me about 15 hours, but if I had to do it again, knowing what I know now, it would probably take about 8.

Sorry VS....didn't intend to hijack the thread! There's more than one way to skin a cat.

I actually spent some time looking at sisal wheels online tonight. Look pretty interesting.
 
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GateKeeper said:
but the cheap way was to do what GT did......

and all he had to pay for was a new decal....


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I wasn't saying he should have bought a new one, just that I would have.
There was so much damage that I would have marked it as ruined and not consider it salvageable.
But after seeing it brought back from the dead, I'm more aware of what can and can not be fixed.
 
Sorry I did not mean it in a negative way, towards you, I was just saying, the cheap way was the way GT did it....

Unless the part has a hole in it, even then it could be welded up, and smoothed out and polished, depending on the size and extent of the damage,,,,,scuff marks, and gouges are and can be sanded out, filled in and sanded and then polished. Now unless you can get a cover for cheap, then by all means, even I would go for that.

Around here I have a hard time finding these things, and the last cover cost me 80 bucks, and that was many years ago, so I will go for the cheap way.....sand and polish....:):)
 
ValorSolo said:
I wasn't saying he should have bought a new one, just that I would have.
There was so much damage that I would have marked it as ruined and not consider it salvageable.
But after seeing it brought back from the dead, I'm more aware of what can and can not be fixed.
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I just hope it will still hold oil. LOL It may be so thin now that it just soaks though like a brown paper sack. Then I'd have to put some duct tape on it. :lol::lol:
 
Good Times said:
I actually spent some time looking at sisal wheels online tonight. Look pretty interesting.
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Your parts look good but if you ever, one time ever, use a sisal wheel you'll never use anything else.
Personally I dont go the extra step (white rogue) for the "chrome" look but more so the OEM look.

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Okay spent 3-4 hours trying to polish my swing arm using a couple of the methods here, result...nothing gained but sore shoulders and almost burned out a bench motor. Had it bead blasted Monday and came out great, guy showed me what to use and how to get the brushed look and it looked great. Now all I have to do is do it and won't take but a few hours to finish it now. What ever that coating is that Suzuki used, I think it could be used for reentry on space craft lol.
 
mrbill5491 said:
Okay spent 3-4 hours trying to polish my swing arm using a couple of the methods here, result...nothing gained but sore shoulders and almost burned out a bench motor. Had it bead blasted Monday and came out great, guy showed me what to use and how to get the brushed look and it looked great. Now all I have to do is do it and won't take but a few hours to finish it now. What ever that coating is that Suzuki used, I think it could be used for reentry on space craft lol.
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Post a picture when you're done, Mr Bill.
 
mrbill5491 said:
Okay spent 3-4 hours trying to polish my swing arm using a couple of the methods here, result...nothing gained but sore shoulders and almost burned out a bench motor.
Had it bead blasted Monday and came out great, guy showed me what to use and how to get the brushed look and it looked great. Now all I have to do is do it and won't take but a few hours to finish it now.
What ever that coating is that Suzuki used, I think it could be used for reentry on space craft lol.
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I agree.
After trying a few different items to polish/sand one of mine, I figured that blasting was the way to go.
I have more important things to do in life than polish a swing-arm for the majority of it. ;)


Eric
 
Tried some paint stripper didn't even faze it. This coating was something else, never seen anything like it before.
 
Might be a clear anodized finish. Only thing I know of that will get rid of that is abrasion. Yep, have to sand/grind/polish it off. Might work to sandblast, but that might be a bit uneven.

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