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[The_Mistro]

ok then, thankyou to all of you guys for the advice! i got a few days off work! so il set about them tomorrow afternoon! hope they turn out as nice as the ones you guys have posted!

[matminicity]

Let me know how you get on with doing them as i was thinking of giving my old ones a go at the weekend as the lacquer on mine have gone funny so need doing!
Good luck and dont rush them!!!

[michal]

II bought a polishing mop that fits onto a drill, its about 38mm diameter

anything special? Pics or link would be useful

[rosco454]

All the polishing products you will ever need.These are really good professional products,a world apart from screwfix/machine mart etc.

The polishing shop

[michal]

All the polishing products you will ever need.These are really good professional products,a world apart from screwfix/machine mart etc.

The polishing shop

Thanks for that! Wondering what power tool is needed? Dremel with 30000rpm or just ordinary drill having ~2500rpm...

[rosco454]

Use the drill,the dremell wont have enough guts to spin under load with anything but very small mops,they are great for getting into the nooks and crannies though.

Try to use quite a heavy duty 240v drill as anything but the best battery drills - dewalt etc will struggle and lose power really quickly as it can strain the drill somewhat.

Ideally you would use either a specific polishing machine or a bench grinder with long arbours to hold the mops.Drill is the next best thing if these arnt available to you.

Edited by rosco454, 22 April 2009 - 09:32 PM.

[mimi the mini]

II bought a polishing mop that fits onto a drill, its about 38mm diameter

anything special? Pics or link would be useful

I used one of these from ebay on a drill, didnt even need to sand mine the buffer & polish was enough.
Item number: 140293398513

[The_Mistro]

had a quick go yesterday! i was quite suprised at the result! i didnt get to do all of the wheels, just the one, it was quite hard work doing them on the car, so im going to take them off and do them on a bench in the workshop at dads work next week!

i didnt have any 600 wet and dry, so i got the lacquer of with the 280, then went over it with the 1500, it came out alright, not amazing, still some scratches, so i got some 600 today just to make the job easier with the 1500! i gave it a quick going over with autosol after, and they came out quite nice, at a glance you wouldnt notice anyhing wrong with them, looking a bit closer they were a little scratchy still and there was still some laquer to come of from underneath the faulse bolts where the rim meets the dish, so im going to have to get a little kid to do between there as my fingers are too fat lol il get some pics when i have finished one of them, and you can all tell me how bad it is and how i can improve them!

[Nick Warwick]

i will be doing this tomorrow, did anyone remove the laquer from the spokes as well as the deep dish rim?

[Nick Warwick]

i did two wheels today but they still need a good polish up

before


after new photos old photos did not good

excuse the dirt

Edited by Nick Warwick, 01 May 2009 - 07:14 PM.