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Apr 22, 2008 | 09:49 PM

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Hillcapper

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Wow Doug, thats some impressive polish work

Apr 23, 2008 | 07:11 PM

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Wow Doug, thats some impressive polish work

I hope this posts correctly, my borders seem to be screwed up and I can't get them to align, I'm not an idiot, but between a nerd and an idiot,I am probably closer to the latter. If this doesn't post complete sentences, I will try something else.....Thanks for the compliment, I started polishing old war rifles during cancer treatment, and I can tell you, it's kind of addicting. There's something special about turning rusted steel or pitted cast iron into a chrome-like finnish, and one rifle I did still looks perfect without any protection nearly 4 years later. It is very labor intensive to get to that point, but it sure looks awesome, and has to pretty much eliminate hot spots.I know eventually carbon will build up on them. but it has to be reduced in amount and grossly delayed in the time frame it takes to accumulate. Lot o time in those heads.

Apr 23, 2008 | 08:29 PM

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I doubt I will have the time to get them to look like yours but what did you use in the final polish stages to get them so smooth?

Apr 23, 2008 | 09:21 PM

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I doubt I will have the time to get them to look like yours but what did you use in the final polish stages to get them so smooth?

It's all about going finer and finer with abrasives. The final stages involve 1500-2000 grit sandpaper followed by buffing with jewlers polish, or buffing compounds, depending on how you want to define them. The bulk was done with Mirro buffing compound I bought at Lowe's (the green top for mirror finish) and quite an assortment of cotton and wool buffing pads for a Dremel, and a lot of hand sanding with fine grits beforehand and after (when the polishing highlighted the flaws), untill it looks like chrome. It's something better left to winter nights, when there's not much else to do. If I were to take my time at $5 an hour, I'd probably be money ahead buying some new aluminumn performance heads.