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Old 03-18-2006, 07:47 AM
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Default Re: stainless trim polishing taking forever..

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Originally Posted by thesound

In my personal experience with stainless, I've had the highest degree of success by using 3 wheels instead of two: sisal/black, spiral/white, loose/white. You can achieve excellent optical clarity from a head on viewpoint with the spiral/white, but it still seems to leave that "halo effect" you get from looking at the metal from an angle and focusing on the point where light hits it. Loose/white seems to help in minimizing this.
That's my usual routine on stainless too, but don't rule out the green...on some alloys it does work better than white.

I wish I got more stainless to do, certainly less trouble than aluminum which is like buffing lead sometimes in comaprison, lol...
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