Okay so I decided to take a whack at some polishing and realized its hard work!

I bought a cheapy Roybi polishing kit for $10.00 at Home Depot and about an hours worth of time. Its amazing what little polish does!

This is the water temp sender from the water pump.



Here are the coolant lines





And the A/C canister



Granted its not perfect and I didn't know how to use the tripoli/white rouge/red rouge compunds...I got fustrated and decided to use the bottle of 3M polishing compound and it worked wonders! The mother's metal polished was used as the final touch.

-B

 

Looks good man. In the summer when I am cleaning up my car I will take some of my wheel polish and hit the AC lines and canister to add that little extra touch. Only problem is that I do it by hand, so it takes me a while. But it is worth for that extra gleam when the hood is raised.

 

Yup, that is definately hard work. Looks good though.

 

Wow, that is pretty impressive. Think I'll have to invest in one of those polishing kits for some summer projects.

 

Check out www.eastwood.com for supplies and some how-to's.

 

Besides the compounds, what all was included in this kit?

 

It just has 3 buffing wheels in varius diameters and an attachment tool for the wheels. Not a bad deal for $10.00. =)

-B

 

Based on what I normally spend on polishing supplies, $10 for all of what you listed is incredibly cheap. When you said it was only $10, my initial thought was that the kit only included the compounds you described.

I had a guy send me a PM once saying that he was pretty frustrated with polishing and was ready to give up because he couldn't figure out how to get the compounds to work. Came to find out that he was trying to rub the compound directly onto the part...

I try not to assume too much anymore.

This tutorial gives some good info about buffing, wheel speeds, techniques, etc:
http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?i...8&iSubCat=1445

 

I just checked the kit and it has a 3 inch, 4 inch, and a 2-1/4 inch buffs. I'll read up on the polishing when I get the chance. Looks like a lot of materials to buy!

-B