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Old 12-17-2007, 01:56 PM
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Default Re: What Would Be...........

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Originally Posted by jrow View Post
Tng21,

Use your AO, then try some greaseless in 220 or 320 grit and then polish away!

John
yeah but this is what i want to get away from, this is how im was doing it to start with, but after i sandblast it, im left with a rocker thats dull and grey and they have to go to greaseless to get it back to bare aliminium. Plus its still fairly rough.

The peices i do are a fairly rough to start with, with a orange peel like texture which is a pain to remove just using greaseless and hard wheels. SO i was hoping i could find a media that would get rid of the orange peel texture but leave it fairly smooth-ish. SO then the greaseless hasnt got that much work to do.

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Originally Posted by baz View Post
,if possible i try not to blast part at all before polishing (chemical stripper and a good cleaning is sometimes all that is needed)
I hear what your saying but i wanted to blast my parts as i have a fairly rough and pitted work areas on the parts i do. SO was hoping to find someone that smooths the peices out at the same time as cleaning it.

Here's a pic of the texture i was on about
in this pic you can sort of see where i have to start, very bumpy surface, which obviously have to be perfectly smooth



this pic was after i attacked it with a wire brush wheel on a bench grinder for ages, which kind of like smudged it a bit flatter to start with but done no good really.

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