Diamond Plate Aluminum from Dullsville to Mirror Shine on a 1947 Chevy Pickup

[shoeless89]

Wow you guys did an amazing job! Thanks for the walkthrough.

[Mike Phillips]

This is Lew, with the '47 truck, and YES I am Ecstatic about the finished work..

Mike and Todd really know their Sh..... I mean Stuff !!!

Hi Lew,

Thanks for joining the forum and chiming in!


Can't tell you how much I appreciate it when the owner of anything we work on takes the time to register with our forum and post to their thread...

[ArkayoDeetayo]

Mike, is there anything you can't do?

I recall blackfire has a metal sealant, wouldn't that be a good idea?

[Mike Phillips]

Mike, is there anything you can't do?

I've polished a lot of aluminum in my life, my Sanger Drag Boat had a lot of polished aluminum and I've owned half a dozen sets of slotted mags plus my leg is aluminum. My new truck project also has an oxidized, aluminum tool box in the back that's going to get an extreme makeover too...

I recall blackfire has a metal sealant, wouldn't that be a good idea?

Sealing polished aluminum after the polishing work is always a good idea. We were under some tight time constraints because we're getting ready for Detail Fest but I do plan helping Lew to seal the aluminum after Detail Fest.

I see Lew all the time and he lives just down the road...

[Mike Phillips]

This is Lew, with the '47 truck, and YES I am Ecstatic about the finished work.. Mike and Todd really know their Sh..... I mean Stuff !!!

Hey Lew...

Long time no see... how's the diamond plate holding up?

How about the finish on the truck?

Live Video Broadcast - 1947 Chevy & 1986 Porsche 928 - Extreme Makeovers



Scott aka courtsider using the Flex 3401 with a Cyan Hydro-Tech Pad






DiJuan working the Meguiar's G110v2



Here's Jon working a Porter Cable 7424XP on the hood...


DiJuan in the back and Joel up front...



DiJuan polishing the ribs of the running board by hand using a polish and a soft Finger Pocket



Scott aka courtsider compounding the bed...



On the left is Dwight wiping compound residue off and on the left is Scott machine compounding paint...





Hey Rene! Don't look at me focus on the task at hand!



And try not to look like you're having so much fun!



Here's Lew, the owner of the 1947 Chevy Truck learning how to machine polish, I'm behind him working on the passenger side door.



Dwight in the lower right wiping polish residue off the fender... we might see Dwight back with his Dad's 1935 Hudson




And here's the beauty shots...

[Mike Phillips]

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Bummer man....

All Todd's pictures have disappeared...


I have a guy that has e-mailed Autogeek asking how to buff out aluminum diamond plate. I though to myself,


Self... you and Todd Helme buffed out some diamond plate and there's a thread with 20 to 30 pictures that TELL THE STORY


So I do some Google work and find the thread but alas... all Todd's pictures hosted on Photobucket are now missing.


I'll have to look on my hard drive, maybe I still have my pictures. Until then, here's an article I wrote over 11 YEARS AGO on MOL back when I ran MOL.


Here's the time-stamp for when I wrote the article,

Mar 21st, 2006, 05:49 AM


Here's the thread...

Why PhotoBucket is a waste of time...


And I stick by what I wrote 11 years ago.


Photobucket is a waste of time...


So sad...