Polishing Steel/Titanium

[Metal-Man]

Never really cleaned up the headers on me bike since I owned it.
So I had some spare timer over the weekend to do some polishing

Did some YouTubing on "how to" polish Titanium, and there's no real specific polish for it.
Just use the usual suspect metal polish.

So, after a trip to Bunning's I grabbed some of this stuff (the paste is better than the liquid).
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Gave the headers a quick scrub with some prepsol (wax 'n' grease remover) and a scotch-brite pad
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This lil beauty makes life a bit easier when polishing ... Pneumatic hand held buffer
You can get them from any automotive paint an panelbeating supplies shop (VG Auto, Girraween, etc)
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Before and after pics

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[triumph]

looking good there mate .

[Marshy]

Wow! Very shiny!

[chubb]

Nice work!

[stevem]

Well done Metal

[Turbo]

Came up looking great! :thumb:

[Metal-Man]

cheers guys,
now to find a replacement buffing pad backing, as u see in the buff pic (drill looking thingy)
the yellowee bits deteriorated, as I've had this sitting in a sealed plastic box it came in, for over 12 yrs.

[Leezx10r]

Looks great. Have a go with some of this next time
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160724/c548fbdbc519d49d22c2b6a2fcbc78b2.jpg


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[Little Mick]

Looks great. Have a go with some of this next time
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the ultimate polish!!!!!
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[Metal-Man]

Looks great. Have a go with some of this next time
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160724/c548fbdbc519d49d22c2b6a2fcbc78b2.jpg


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so it's the "Holy Grail" of metal polishers??

[Little Mick]

Try it and you will use it everywhere...



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[Metal-Man]

im happy with the results from using that stuff from bunnings, and the headers came out better than I thought. It's good enough for the rims too.

Don't really need to polish anything else. ... thanks for the heads up about that purpley stuff though.

[Little Mick]

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An example of the Lustre you can bring up with ally. I wet n dried this with variois grades then a quick hit on the polish wheel and polish with purple. Truckies use it for their ally all over. Low elbow grease and great results

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[Turbo]

Fuuuuuk!! That looks amazing, Mick!

[Little Mick]

Thanks Owen. Was interesting and enjoyable to make. Will be on a pcra lc350 very soon.

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[zoidberg]

I almost want to get into PCRA stuff just to have a reason for you to make me some stuff Mick.

Your work is outstanding.

[Little Mick]

Hahahaaa thanks bud. [emoji3]

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