Stainless polishing

[ianboom]

Does anybody know a stainless polisher that does small batches?
I have a top yoke bolt and a set of 10 YPVS head bolts I want polishing.
There's a really good polisher by me who want £1.30 + vat to polish each bolt, but has a minimum charge of £35 + vat and I don't have anything else that needs polishing!
Ta

[headcoats]

Wouldn't bother

[Dixie Dean]

If you have a bench grinder you could buy a polishing wheel and do it yourself

[LC_BOTT]

I stick my small bolts n'stuff in a drill, and do it myself, I try to make some sort of adaptor to fit the chuck, and use scotchbright pads, and then a cloth and whatever polish you prefer to use Autosol/Belgom/T-cut etc etc

[rigga]

I've got a decent polishing set up you can use, for the money involved have a go yourself.

[Deleted]

DIY, its quite easy

I did the unpolished stainless yoke bolts and bearing caps I bought off Norbo

Came up a treat, took all of about 15 min per set

Put the drill (gently) in a vice with a 3" mop head on it, used the polishing clay that came with the mop heads and Bob's your uncle - shiny

[chrisg]

Jan 16, 2020 13:56:55 GMT 1 Dixie Dean said:

If you have a bench grinder you could buy a polishing wheel and do it yourself

That's exactly what I do. Stainless and ally. If I remove the guard and fit this mob to my grinder I can polish my bits all day long, oo er misus.  

Make sure you get the correct colour polish stick. I polish bolts using my battery drill and solvol autosol.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/6-Stitched-White-Cotton-Buffing-Wheel-150mm-x-13mm-Firm-Polishing-Mop-C150-1/132221264191?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

[ianboom]

I have a small lathe and a polishing kit (although I have no idea which colour compounds do what!) and use it to polish allen head bolts.

But if I do the head and yoke bolt, I'm concerned I'll polish one of the hex flats and put marks in the flange. I also need to try and get the machining marks out.
Ian