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Riejufixing
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PostPosted: 14:37 - 10 Jul 2018    Post subject: Stainless button-headed hex socket screws for fairings etc. Reply with quote

I see Toolstation sell these quite reasonably. I was thinking of polishing the heads of these for use where on show. Drill, Brasso, old carpet? Anyone tried polishing such things/how?
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PostPosted: 20:56 - 10 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use them ,It's only A2 Stainless but it does buff up with a electric buff , I made mine using a variable speed angle grinder and fabbed up a threaded mounting cone to carry the wheels.
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PostPosted: 21:02 - 10 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

A toolstation/Silverline polishing kit - in a drill, did a great job on alu and steel parts I machined. The effort seems wasted to me.. Stainless bolt heads are usually acceptable out the packet.. what bike? Laughing
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Riejufixing
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PostPosted: 21:09 - 10 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tankie wrote:
I use them ,It's only A2 Stainless but it does buff up with a electric buff , I made mine using a variable speed angle grinder and fabbed up a threaded mounting cone to carry the wheels.


Great! But I had to think about that... you mounted a rag buffing wheel (I assume, but... felt???) on an angle grinder?
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PostPosted: 21:13 - 10 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

kramdra wrote:
A toolstation/Silverline polishing kit - in a drill, did a great job on alu and steel parts I machined. The effort seems wasted to me.. Stainless bolt heads are usually acceptable out the packet.. what bike? Laughing


This one's a bashed Rieju RS3 125. Polished S/S bolts twinkle nicely in the sunlight.... Smile the only chrome on the thing seems to be the fork stanchions, and they... well, another story.
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PostPosted: 12:20 - 16 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does seem a lot of effort for anything that not on a turn table, adorned by scantily clad ladies.

But.. i'd suggest chucking up the bolts in the drill and holding a polishing cloth / felt + polishing compound in your hand.

Better still, if you have a pillar drill or something else to attach a polishing wheel to so both the bolt and polishing thing are spinning, that would be better.

If you're into your happy tat, you can get anodized bolts from china for cheap or from pro bolt for not 'too' much money. But don't tell anyone on bcf if you do. They won't be happy.
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