Polishing lips, DIY

[silvergsx]

Using 600-2000, then emery, tripoli and white I cannot remove the marks that white rouge leave. I tried a finer compound (going to try jewler's rouge next), but for the life of me I cannot get the marks to disappear using mother's etc. What am I doing wrong?

[allieverwanted]

If you go up to 3000 grit wet, can you go directly to Mother's Mag Polish from there? I did this and still have some small imperfections in my lips. I am only polishing by hand, if I use a buffer with some polish do you guys think it would come out?

[bcgreen]

Strip the clearcoat. Polish and clearcoat the lips.

Not clear coating, my question is in regards to the barrels.

[zoo]

I am getting my stuff together to polish my R90 wheels from my Mini Cooper. The reason for the polishing is because there is some oxidation happening between the clear coat and the lip of the wheel. There's not a whole lot to polish, because it is just the lip. So this shouldn't take forever, especially since I will using a high speed polisher.
Here's my question:I noticed I have some oxidation in the barrel as well. I am assuming the whole wheel is alum. but I am not sure once I get rid of the oxidation in the barrel, do I need to anything with these areas afterwords? I don't mind keeping the lips polished every month or so, but I can't see having to take the wheel off to do the barrels.
Here is the pic of the lip, but this is also happening in the barrel as well.

Strip the clearcoat. Polish and clearcoat the lips.

[bcgreen]

I am getting my stuff together to polish my R90 wheels from my Mini Cooper. The reason for the polishing is because there is some oxidation happening between the clear coat and the lip of the wheel. There's not a whole lot to polish, because it is just the lip. So this shouldn't take forever, especially since I will using a high speed polisher.
Here's my question:I noticed I have some oxidation in the barrel as well. I am assuming the whole wheel is alum. but I am not sure once I get rid of the oxidation in the barrel, do I need to anything with these areas afterwords? I don't mind keeping the lips polished every month or so, but I can't see having to take the wheel off to do the barrels.
Here is the pic of the lip, but this is also happening in the barrel as well.





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[Vaders]

I picked up some OZ Futuras and the lips are pitted. I've tried sanding from 320 grit all the way up to 2000 grit, but no luck on getting he pitting out. Should I be sanding in a perpendicular pattern (read that in a DIY post)? So far I've sanded in just one direction.

Any tips would be appreciated. A close up of what I'm working with.

[GroceryGetter67]

so I was going to get the Mothers Mag/aluminum polish today but my buddy recommended Heavy Metal Polish, the blue stuff, and said he likes it way better for when he polishes wheels. What are your thoughts on that?

[Ey3dol]

Anyone ever use MEK (methyl ethyl ketone) to strip the paint on their wheels?

[enes_ca]

some of my work
most of the wheels I've done , unfortunately didnt take photos ...

my bbs rs 8x16 , full polish by hand











RH CUP 9x14





Borbet bs 9x16 full polish








vid of polishing my old borbet bs but 8x15




vid of a set of steffan bcw's 9x14 I've done .....
I'll dig out some more stuff I've polished

[melkizedeck]

Start with a very low grit sand paper, like 50 or even less

[Eman.]

So I guess im in the same boat as the rest of these guys since im polishing my style 5's as well. But since this is only my second attempt i could use a little help. The lips are in a worse condition than my last wheels and im wondering if basic sanding will get rid of the issues. I used 5 layers of paint stripper so im pretty sure its just bare meal now.


IMG_5003 by Simpson.Photography, on Flickr


IMG_5002 by Simpson.Photography, on Flickr


IMG_5000 by Simpson.Photography, on Flickr


IMG_4999 by Simpson.Photography, on Flickr

What will i need to do to get ride of th curb rash and other problems.? Any help is appreciated.

[mx5roadster]

Any tips on how to get the fine scratches out? I've polished up to 2000 then hit it with mother mag polish and it's shiny but I can still see fine scratches.

I've also tried compounds (white, then red) on a polishing wheel with a bench grinder, the results are worst than by hand. It seems to impart a lot of fine scratches.

[Pekå]

hi! how would you do rougher surfaces? i have widen steelies so i have welded and then grided it down so no way i can get it fine with even 60-papers... also got tiny black dots left from the 240? not sanded enough i guess?

also how can you fix imperfections like deeeeep scratches and such? i will probably let it be cause it´s not tat much but im curious

[andybob]

Came across this site a few minutes ago:

http://www.caswellplating.com/buffs/index.html

They have pretty much everything you would ever need to polish lips.

I plan to pick this of since it's for a drill:

http://www.caswellplating.com/review/product/list/id/652/category/123/

Comes with everything you need minus the drill and wheels:



Wish I would have found this a month ago when I started doing my wheels. Would have been so much easier and been a time saver. (Did mine pretty much all by hand).

[melkizedeck]

Just finish my BBS RC092/093 style 5 restoration projet. 60 80 100 150 220 320 400 600 800 1000 1500 2000 + metal polish compounded