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I started about 2 weeks ago polishing everything that I could on my motorcycle,first few days I used sandpaper 100 grit all the way to 2000 grit then onto 10,000 grit wool,finishing with a polishing kit from dremel which came with felt bobs,wheels and rouge,to do 1 side of the wheel it took me about 20 hours,had to be a better way so I found this site
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Also tried using spiral wheel on a 10,000 rpm hand held die grinder,seems to work better than Sisal wheel with greaseless,but with having to frequently re-apply greaseless and wait for it to dry,its still faster by hand
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For me, no matter how much frustration and learning it takes to do something myself, it's always worth it in the end. Also, I don't have the money to pay someone to do everything for me. Plus once I've got it down, I hope to make some money doing it for others.
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I believe emery is the equivelent of about 650 grit wetsand, so it would not be practical to take deep pits out with it. The greaseless should work better on a spiral sewn wheel than it will on the sisal. Just line up several coated wheels at a time so you don't have to continually stop to recoat. I prefer to skip emory and just wetsand with 600 grit. I find it to be less messy than the emery compounds.
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Thanks Marsfrogie for the info,guess I will have to go back to sand paper till i get to brown compound,Was looking for a quick alternative but I guess anyway you do it its going to take a while.
As for your reply DanMan there are 2 factors as to why I dont take it to a shop #1 being that the average price per wheel where I live is 650 dollars.#2 while waiting for supplies to arrive from Caswell I polished my forks,triple tree,brake calipers,foot peg brackets,bar ends,sub frame,exhaust slip on,and swing arm to a better shine that any shop here will turn out,the quality of shop work looks great at night and normal light but put a bright light to it and it looks horrible. Also if anyone knows what grit white compound is I would be much appreciative,kinda pointless to sand all the way to 10,000 grit if compound is say 2000. Thanks in Advance. |
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