aluminum finish

[Anonymous]

is there anyway to shine up aluminum again lik eon the engine casing could i use that snowmobile polish or steal wool? my 78 gs has some flaws in the metal from aluminum corrosion

[KEITH KRAUSE]

Do a search here for aluminum polishing and you'll get some info.
I learned to polish by visiting

https://www.eastwood.com

[Anonymous]

Get a 3m abrasive wheel.

Get a 3M paint and varnish abrasive wheel.

I got a couple from wall mart.

These wheels are really good for removing clear and corosion. I just polished the parts on my CB engine, and it worked great.

Once I was done with the wheel I was ready to wet sand. With a little extra wheel work I was abble to remove most of the scratches as well.

These are not the agressive rust removal wheels. They look similar to a green scotch pad, but are more sturdy and more abbrasive.

After wet sanding I put some super fine 0000 steel wool in a rubber sanding block and went to work with some Mothers.

Useing the block made bringing up the shine really fast.

I finished with a buffing wheel chocked up in my drill, and then cleaned out the compound with a tooth brush, and some amonia.

[Poot]

get some metal polish after that, and rub till your fingers fall off

[Boozy Creek Beast]

Try this it worked well for my 80 1100E. Still a lot of elbow grease but my engine looks great now.

https://www.marchperf.com/pg68.html

The Beast

[Anonymous]

I have done the rub till your fingers fall off.

The Poot method of rubbing till your fingers fall of is what I did to my GS.

The 3M wheel and sanding block made my CB job much faster, and with no blisters.

[Anonymous]

Not hard but verry verry time consuming. I used a polishing wheel "the little white soft wheels" with my dremmel tool and mothers aluminum polish on the front lower legs of my XS650 and they came out to a mirror finish.