Post up your pics of polished engines!

Hi I am cleaning and doing a little polishing and have a bit of gleam on the old Seca, but I know some of you have really shiny rides.

Post up some pictures so I can be inspired to keep buffing when the rain clouds hit!

 

Spin, I have no pics to show, my engine is NOT shiny! How are you going about it? It's something I want to do as well.

 

Holy cow, I have a lot of work to do, those look like they rolled out of the showroom in 1982!

 

I bought some of those cloth wheels and drill bits from a local auto shop and was using polishing compound for aluminum wheels. The new kit has three different pastes for polishing, I assume they are coarse, medium and fine paste (?).

 

Check out the "87 Radian Project" thread under Other Motorcycles. That dude got his carbs so shiny that they look chromed. Just amazing.

 

ahh ok, so you are using a dremel too for this? I wonder how that mothers powerball would work? I don't have a dremel but I have a drill!

Damn Fitz, everytime I see your bikes I just sit and stare at them LOL!

 

The Mothers' Powerball is foam rubber and about useless.

You can use a drill too; however a Dremel with extension wand and a tiny buffing wheel is perfect for polishing the highlights on the spokes.

 

I was using a drill for bigger parts and will bring out the dremel next

 

Those little tools posted up there will work in a drill chuck?

Just checked out that radian thread, WOW!

 

Yes, they will work in a drill. As a matter of fact I used a dremel kit on the engine yesterday before I read this thread.

 

Any chance you can tell us what that kit is called and who makes it? Would be a good weekend project!

 

I picked the first one up at rocky's ace hardware:

general purpose kit:
http://www.acehardware.com/product/inde ... Id=1289307

cleaning/polishing kit:
http://www.acehardware.com/product/inde ... Id=1289311

 

I'd think an air die grinder would work better than a drill, if you have a compressor that can provide the flow.

 

Thanks Sektor, might have to hit up the work warehouse this weekend with my drill and get to it! I'd really like to have the chrome/aluminum all cleaned up, then I'll post a pic in this thread

Seb, no compressor.

 

Harbour freight polishing kit

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