Your doing it by hand your my new hero

I use 10" diameter x 2" wide flap wheels on a handheld polishing gun Ken, Most of my frame was polished in sections for ease but where they are welded i use the flap wheels to take out the weld and repolish, This is the order i use them in depending on depth of scrathes.

120 grit, 180 grit, 320 grit, next i go to a hard sisal mop with a soap with a good cut but no shine, next a normal sisal mop with a soap with 50% cut & 50% shine, then i go finally with a cotton stitch mop with a white soap to bring up a nice shine. Hope this is of some help to ya.

I've recently discovered a cutting soap that a guy makes hisself (secret formula and all that ) but its absolutely brilliant, it has very little shine but cuts very very well and when you hit it with the coton stitched and white soap you get a superb gloss.

If it helps i have various freinds visiting SoCal quite often and could get one of them to bring you a bar.





Quote Originally Posted by Ken Thurm View Post
Steve - She just comes in the back and shakes her head

Don - Thanks, the welding is whats really different. You just have to keep it as cool as possible. I borrowed a friends heli arc that has the pulse wave built into it. So now it is just timing you have to get in sink with the machine, but it keeps from burning all the nickel out of the stainless.

Steve - The problem I'm having is I don't see some of the scratches until I'm down to the 1000 grit paper. By then it's taken so long to get their and you have to start all over with 80 grit and work your way back up. I have 3 weeks in the one rear section and I'm still not done with it. But I'm in no hurry.
Ken