Frame polishing

Bondy · Post by **Bondy** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:32 am

Does anyone know what you need to polish your frame up and how to do it? My mates had his done and wanted to do mine while the bikes in the spray shop.

Post by **sirch345** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:59 am

You want to speak to xxxrated, either PM him or put up a F.A.O.

Chris.

Right I'm back again, forget the above, have a look at this link, at the 7th post down

http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB2/viewtopic ... hing+alloy

xxxrated · Post by **xxxrated** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:15 pm

alot of wet and dry and about 3000 tubs of elbow grease mate lol.

basically you need to get yourself an assortment of wet and dry. i used

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its just a case of removing your fairings and sanding the frame down with the lowest grade and then moving up to the highest grade paper. to do the full frame (top and bottom bit) youre looking at an easy 30 hours work although its worth it in the end

xxxrated · Post by **xxxrated** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:16 pm

Rincewind · Post by **Rincewind** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:27 pm

do you need any sort of polish to be applied during the sanding or buffing it up??

xxxrated · Post by **xxxrated** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:16 pm

i gave it a quick autosol after changing grades just to see how things were coming along. and be sure to use the wet and dry wet when you get up to 400 and above otherwise itll mark the surface

Bondy · Post by **Bondy** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:36 pm

Thanks mate. I got about a week from when the fairin goes in till i get it back so ill try and crack on then. Yours looks awesome mate just hope i can get mine the same.