metal polishing addiction

masterdave · Post by **masterdave** » Fri May 11, 2012 7:37 am

i think i have become addicted to polishing metal, so far ive done the headstock, rearsets, levers, front brake calipers, im doing the swinging arm, rear caliper, rear footrest hangers. but my addiction stops at the frame, im not that sad lol. i do it all my hand with wet and dry, and then metal polish, none of this buffing shizzle
does anyone else share this addiction?

marravtr · Post by **marravtr** » Fri May 11, 2012 7:40 am

used to be but im now cured!! no more sunday afternoons in the garage covered in autosol and belgum polish!

masterdave · Post by **masterdave** » Fri May 11, 2012 7:45 am

ive been using Autoglym metal polish lately, a much better product to work with i find! and it smells soooooo good! every spare 5 minutes im doing it, im finishing my left caliper today

my bloody keys keep marking my headstock though

lloydie · Post by **lloydie** » Fri May 11, 2012 7:54 am

marravtr wrote:used to be but im now cured!! no more sunday afternoons in the garage covered in autosol and belgum polish!

i did my blade frame and swing arm took days

autosol is good to get is shiny but to protect it belgum alu is great as it leaves a wax on it .
so only needed to buff it up once a month

marravtr · Post by **marravtr** » Fri May 11, 2012 7:57 am

masterdave wrote:ive been using Autoglym metal polish lately, a much better product to work with i find! and it smells soooooo good! every spare 5 minutes im doing it, im finishing my left caliper today
my bloody keys keep marking my headstock though

headstocks simple, only use one bloody key!

belgum is the best for keeping on top of it, some pics of my old shiney ride ere.... http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic ... 30&t=13419

agentpineapple · Post by **agentpineapple** » Fri May 11, 2012 8:41 am

mine name is martin and i to have a metal polishing addiction..........
tbh i ain't that bad, although this week i sandpaper/polished my magnisium front sprocket cover, i even sandpapered out the word magnisium, i stoppped at doing the same for the numbers 1 to 6..........

in my defence, i need to cut the spocket cover to fit my spondon frame, so while i'm at it i thought sod it wheres the polish.....

spider13 · Post by **spider13** » Fri May 11, 2012 8:52 am

i think bsm is getting varied forms of ocd

steve

lloydie · Post by **lloydie** » Fri May 11, 2012 9:08 am

More like mad cows disease lol
Well the cows will be up in hoofs when they see his leathers lol

agentpineapple · Post by **agentpineapple** » Fri May 11, 2012 9:21 am

i always wondered why when i rode thru the country lanes cows would run away in the fields, i mean sheep running away i understand

playerone · Post by **playerone** » Fri May 11, 2012 12:47 pm

I don't clean mine let alone polish anything but I'm sure it was bazza who has a post somewhere about polishing his forks to a very shiny finish

took a bit or work tho.......

lloydie · Post by **lloydie** » Fri May 11, 2012 12:55 pm

I did do a little polishing today

bazza696 · Post by **bazza696** » Fri May 11, 2012 1:15 pm

playerone wrote:I don't clean mine let alone polish anything but I'm sure it was bazza who has a post somewhere about polishing his forks to a very shiny finish took a bit or work tho.......

I have a polishing fetish, get satisfaction from doing it. What else you going to do on a Sunday afternoon other than polish.

Autosol from my experience is only any good when you use mechanical polisher, otherwise by hand itâ€™s too aggressive, you need to get the active ingredients working and hand polishing does not do it.

I use Maguireâ€™s Nxt Generation All Metal Polish to keep on top of the polished bits

Snoogle · Post by **Snoogle** » Fri May 11, 2012 1:16 pm

Polish???

Please define

bazza696 · Post by **bazza696** » Fri May 11, 2012 1:48 pm

Snoogle wrote:Polish???

Please define

Rub your hand up and down a pole with a cream till its all shiny.

Snoogle · Post by **Snoogle** » Fri May 11, 2012 1:54 pm

bazza696 wrote:
Snoogle wrote:Polish???

Please define
Rub your hand up and down a pole with a cream till its all shiny.

Ahhhh you have to be a wonker to be good at it....gotcha!

No wonder I had no idea wot u lot were on about

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