Polishing

[Steve-D]

Can anyone tell me how do I polish parts, such as alloy footrests, tried before but all I did was leave black marks.
Also can anyone give me a link to some decent mops, kits ect.
Cheers for forgiving a stupidly simple question.
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Tristan The said 'Dunno what my pace will be like, fastish slow puncture on the rear and if I go too fast I risk my 'keys' falling out'

[tutton]

The black marks means your using too much compound.
I know a way to do it, but havnt personally tried it so not going to go into it but im sure someone will post a proven way!
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[ms51ves3]

When I did my forks I used a light to medium sanding sponge soaked in WD40 from Halfords (the green one). The more you use it the softer it gets. Once I had done that I used a brass wire brush on my dremel, then a plastic brush and then chrome polish.

Before:

https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a376/ms51ves3/DSC00625.jpg

After:

https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a376/ms51ves3/DSC00626.jpg

[Steve-D]

What bike is that, looks exactly like my FS1E forks and hub.
Edit, Just seen your sig
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Tristan The said 'Dunno what my pace will be like, fastish slow puncture on the rear and if I go too fast I risk my 'keys' falling out'

[mad4it028]

i use this
https://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/cbk200c-8in-polishing-kit

and this
https://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/cbk100c-4in-polishing-kit

i get a mirror finish that you can see your face in
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[JakeyR]

lots and lots of wet and dry, then autosol.

Start with rough wet and dry, then go finer and finer, then buff it up with autosol.

I did my Hornet forks, swingarm, footrests, wheels, downpipes and grabrail, ill find a pic.

EDIT:

Theres me downpipes

https://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m250/Southportriders/SpondonHornetXZ6R2.jpg

And heres the swingarm, wheels etc, ignore the watermarks all over the polished bits.

https://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m250/Southportriders/JakesHornet.jpg
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[Steve-D]

Awesome, will give it a go tomorow, bet all that took aaaages though definatly worth it though looks, well looked great
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Tristan The said 'Dunno what my pace will be like, fastish slow puncture on the rear and if I go too fast I risk my 'keys' falling out'

[ms51ves3]

[hornetmike]

those results look good , can you polish scratches out of chrome using that method ? I have a few on my exhaust.
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[t121anf]

how long does it stay like that for though?

[ms51ves3]

[Frost]

They will start going horrible again, but if you catch it early a 2 minute polish will have them looking fine again.

[ms51ves3]