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Fork polishing

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I'm attempting to polish the outer tubes on my 78 and I've run into a dilemma

1. The left outer on the bike has 3 gouges in it in a highly visible area - they're all over 12mm long and deep enough to catch a fingernail. I can't see grinding/sanding these out. Anyone ever used a filler for this? If so, what? Does the filler polish up?

2. I have an extra front end with a left outer that's not gouged, however, the front of this tube has surface porousity from top to bottom. I've tried sanding that out, but very little headway. If I can't remove the pores, it won't polish for ****e.

Any solutions?
 
Are you talking about the upper tubes or the lower slides. The chromed tubes wont polish out from a gouge in the chrome. I may be wrong but I had to strip and refinish my tubes on the 750 project.
 
If you're willing to take the time, those scratches can be taken out. That's if they they are only deep enough to catch a fingernail.
 
Since its just in the aluminum, youre fine. Id take a broad fine file and slow with a light touch go across the area at an angle. Once the scratches are reduced, 120 grit, and keep going finer til youre polishing more than anything. I did this in the 750 to remove the casing marks and the caliber mounts. A hand sander will take a lot of the time outta the work, just have to go with a very light hand.
 
Like the guys said, they will come out with a lot of pateince and elbow grease, I had a few in my ignition cover from dropping the bike, and a night in front of the TV with a bucket of water and various grades of sandpaper sorted it out, you can't tell there was ever a scratch on there.
But it does take a lot of work.
 
On English bikes I have had holes in case covers TIG welded up and repolished them so that you couldn't tell. I have also filed and sanded pretty deep gouges out of primary cases after tossing my Commando down the road with good success, a couple times for that matter.
 
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