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Swirls in Chrome /stainless side step bars
So I did my first paint detail in close to 9 years on my buddies 08 Sierra quad cab.
Paint I'm ok with light scratches and swirls no issue
His side steps have the same type of swirls since I had the polisher going with some 205 I tried a small area
Shined it up but didn't clean the swirls up much
Not great with metal here
Any recommendations on products or techniques
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Re: Swirls in Chrome /stainless side step bars
None of your detailing products will probably work. I'm a welder by trade and used to custom fabricate stainless handrails and they were either a brushed finished or mirror finished. Either way I had to grind down the welds and polish them. Even the brush finish had to get polished down so I could put the brush finish back on the area. But to get swirl marks out, even the lightest ones done with a brillo pad, needs a hard cloth wheel and hard polishing compound, the kind that comes as a solid block like soap. Used an end grinder with the cloth wheel, and sometimes even needed a laminated wheel.
I actually just tried my best on my friend's aluminum rims that got some scratch marks from grass. Tried mother's metal polish with a course 3" pad with an electric drill, then tried meguiars 105, and then Wolfgang Uber Compound, and the scratches just made by grass wouldn't come out. I obviously don't have the same tools I used to have at work haha.
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Re: Swirls in Chrome /stainless side step bars
I've had some fairly good success using Menzerna Polishing cream on a Lake Country Hybrid Wool pad on the Flex 3401
Check out post 22 in this thread for some before/after pics
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/...olishes-3.html
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