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Old 12-29-2009, 07:20 PM   #5
Rollie396
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Re: aluminum polish did I miss a step?

Thanks again Scott,I did some playin around (before reading this) and got fairly decent results.I used the white and then the rouge followed by cream polish.I think if I had gone with the brown first it would have been better though.
I started fresh on another side and tried a few things different. I learnt two main things this time.
Use a sanding block!!I didn't the first time and I think that's why I was fighting with scratches.
Wet sand more.I gave it a once over with dry 220 to knock down scratches and get through the oxidization.After that I dry sanded 400 then wet 400.Wet sanded everything after that up to 2000.Waaaaay better this time!The scratches were minimal and had to look close to see any.
I also would want to get either a bench grinder or proper hand held polisher if I was to do a big area again.I think I'll continue on with it and finish up the whole thing to see if I can get it any better.There are a couple of tricks in the link mentioned above that I'd like to try.
Anyhow,here's what I ended up with this time.I ran out of cream polish after the second application so maybe it could have been better.Any other pointers would be great!
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