Polishing lips, DIY

[HWY HNTR]

question: I used the aircraft stripper and it looked really shiny, so I skipped to the 1200 grit wet sanding...and it made it dull, and I was like wtf, so I kept at it and nothing. Then I started using 1200 dry sanding and it's making it more shiny now. Like that's where I'm at atm. Do you recommend going back to 500 and starting over from there? Do I wet sand all the grits? When I was wet sanding with the 1200 the sandpaper was deteriorating pretty fast, is it supposed to be like that? Also, I went to Lowes, Home Depot, Northern Tool, and I asked for a jeweler's kit, and they didn't know anything, also they only had up to 600 grit. So I found a store that went up to 1200 grit and they had a kit that had two buffs (that attach to a drill) with a red rouge and a white rouge. Do I still need to get a compound then use the white rouge?(it says on the box that the red is for gold, siver, and bronze only). Then I was planning on going to get the mothers mag polish. Like pretty much I was gonna do what the write up says, but I'm kinda confused about the sanding part that i'm on right now. I'm no expert at this as you prolly know by now. Any help is appreciated as i'm going to start working on them tomorrow morning again.

[xGmoneyx]

I'll be going on with mother's billet and see how they look...

[evilstar]

Then you need to prime it, sand the front of the mesh down to metal, paint it then sand it down again.
You will need to sand down to metal between each step or else you will not get a perfect look.
because if you imagine the paint layers, first primer (white / green / what ever) then the color you want the windows in, (orange / blue / etc) if you don't sand down to metal on each paint layer you will see the primer "edge" on the inside of the paint.

I have a hard time typing down what i mean, but hope you get the idea.

definitly get what you mean. makes perfect sense now that youve explained it. Thanks!

[Zic]

Then you need to prime it, sand the front of the mesh down to metal, paint it then sand it down again.
You will need to sand down to metal between each step or else you will not get a perfect look.
because if you imagine the paint layers, first primer (white / green / what ever) then the color you want the windows in, (orange / blue / etc) if you don't sand down to metal on each paint layer you will see the primer "edge" on the inside of the paint.

I have a hard time typing down what i mean, but hope you get the idea.

[evilstar]

What if i wanted to polish the face of the wheel but paint the inside of the mesh?

[nutzu]

my new wheels keskin kt1 16" 9j et25/15 custom covers , metal bolts

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after





polished to mirror

[volvo=win]

So, i've been thinking my rear hatch is aluminum aswell as my sunroof, so im going to polish them it'll be alot of work but i want to do it. what do you guys think?

[Fatandre]

Hi guys. I bought those wheels and while stripping down the paint I see they have spatula under the paint. Then there is paint again :/
What would be the best and cheapest way to get this off?
Virebrush on a drill?

[evanl58]

Im finding that the rouge is very hard and does not seem to transfer onto the buffing wheel. I managed to get some brown on, but the white wont transfer at all.

[a4edwin]

but your stripping the clear coat and you have to be on top polishing frequently right?

[Lilblue]

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[agnes1988]

It is as it was...

[JamesB]

Before and after...



Still work to be done!

[fastcar]

great DIY thanks

[C.Johnston]

gave this wheel a quick over with some black compound on the bench grinder. Needs more work obviously, but I think it looks pretty good so far.. Thoughts?