Post by doc on Jun 29, 2005 18:02:50 GMT 1
I am well advanced in the service and clean up operation.
I've had the bars off and really managed to shine them up.
18 years of sun, rain and the odd knock meant the glaze/lacquer that was applied all those years ago was pretty knackered.
There was just no polishing the bars up with the old glaze on, so I took it off with waterproof abrasive paper (wet with plenty of soap). I started carefully with 300 grade, and finished with 1200.
Once all of the glaze was off I took it to my bench grinder with the polishing mops fitted.
After each grade of paste I cleaned it with a tube of metal polish.
In all the job took me about 3 hours.
You can just polish it up a couple of times using a tube of good quality metal polish with plenty of elbow grease and still get pretty good results though.
As you can pick up a bench grinder for about 30 euro + another 20 for the mops I consider it a good investment for anyones workshop.
The results are almost like new.
I'd preferred to have taken a bit more time and got into the smaller nooks and cranny's, stripped out the painted section too, and finished it with 2400 paper, but this was just a quick job.
I've had the bars off and really managed to shine them up.
18 years of sun, rain and the odd knock meant the glaze/lacquer that was applied all those years ago was pretty knackered.
There was just no polishing the bars up with the old glaze on, so I took it off with waterproof abrasive paper (wet with plenty of soap). I started carefully with 300 grade, and finished with 1200.
Once all of the glaze was off I took it to my bench grinder with the polishing mops fitted.
After each grade of paste I cleaned it with a tube of metal polish.
In all the job took me about 3 hours.
You can just polish it up a couple of times using a tube of good quality metal polish with plenty of elbow grease and still get pretty good results though.
As you can pick up a bench grinder for about 30 euro + another 20 for the mops I consider it a good investment for anyones workshop.
The results are almost like new.
I'd preferred to have taken a bit more time and got into the smaller nooks and cranny's, stripped out the painted section too, and finished it with 2400 paper, but this was just a quick job.