Metal polishers

[chrisg]

Hi all, does anyone know of any metal polishers for alloy in the North West? Ta.

Thinking of fork legs and foot rest brackets. I've got the decent but struggling to get a mirror finish, even with a polishing mop.
I know its not OEM finish 🙂

[Shytalk]

Leigh Metal Polishing Services Ltd

Unit 9 Swinton Ind Est, Pendlebury Rd, Swinton, Manchester, M27 4AJ

0161 728 4325

I've used these years ago, very good results.

[tony2stroke]

In my experience polishing, you need clean mops at the final stage to get the mirror finish, I bet if you go back to where you finished and used a fresh clean mop it will turn grey fast, once grey its not polishing anymore but spreading dirt and polish around, try it and see what I mean, or just do last stage by hand with clean rags to polish, I keep old socks for this.

[chrisg]

Apr 1, 2021 11:44:30 GMT 1 tony2stroke said:

In my experience polishing, you need clean mops at the final stage to get the mirror finish, I bet if you go back to where you finished and used a fresh clean mop it will turn grey fast, once grey its not polishing anymore but spreading dirt and polish around, try it and see what I mean, or just do last stage by hand with clean rags to polish, I keep oldsocks for this.

I have a spare mop, ill try that. Thanks.

Thanks to Shytalk, leigh is 15mins from me. 🙂

[chrisg]

So today I've been re polishing my bits with a new mop as Tony suggested and bingo, it looks way better than it did. I've used blue jewellers polish and then Vienna lime chalk to finish.
Happy days.

Just looking at the photo and it doesn't look like the finished job, however Ive just remembered that Ive coated it with gt85 silicon spray 

[dc]

Agree with tony above, I have been polishing a fair bit of aluminium recently and found a final finish with a soft cloth and a decent polish gave a good result. Once the black stops coming off, it should be fine. Here's a set of forks (and calipers) I am working on but not your usual.😊 It tax free status at 45 years old.