Mr. Wright
Knows some things
I know there are a bunch of threads on polishes, but here’s another.
I have a big Harley dresser in my shop to get painted, and like most of the other dressers I take apart, the rear wheel is nasty. I guess they think “out of site, out of mind”. This one isn’t the first one I ran into with a bad side wall, that couldn’t be seen with the bags on it.
I was digging thru my cleaning cabinet, looking for something to shine up the aluminum wheels, when the thought hit me that this would be an awesome opportunity to put to the test all the polishes I had on hand. After I scrubbed the wheel down with soap and brush, it was still so bad looking I was thinking I would need to sand it and use a polish compound to bring it back.
This is my ratings, not only for results, but also for ease of use. You can see in the pictures how bad the wheel was, and what the product did.
1. MAAS is a polish that a door to door salesman turn me onto. It is expensive, so I don’t normally use it on other people’s turds. I love this stuff, it will remove the little rust spots out of chrome, and water stains out of aluminum. It works best when applied and removed with a terry cloth, the polished out with a micro fiber rag.
2. Zep 5 star. I started using this for copper and brass, and found it works well on plastic lens. I sprayed some electro- cleaner on my engine to get the oil off, and found out the oil gauge had a plastic lens. Which melted the surface into a white goo. I sanded it out with sand paper, the used the 5 star, and I can read the gauge once again. It also good at taking out the fine scratches in aluminum .
3.California Custom purple metal polish, I ran across this at a truck stop. This is what I normally use when doing other peoples bikes, It’s cheep and works well.
4. Beats-um all, doesn’t. I ran across this at a car show. I watched the guy for a hour before I got sucked in to buying it. It works, but it takes a lot of rubbing. I’ll use it more for an after polish, because it does seem to stick to the aluminum longer.
Hold on there's more.
I have a big Harley dresser in my shop to get painted, and like most of the other dressers I take apart, the rear wheel is nasty. I guess they think “out of site, out of mind”. This one isn’t the first one I ran into with a bad side wall, that couldn’t be seen with the bags on it.
I was digging thru my cleaning cabinet, looking for something to shine up the aluminum wheels, when the thought hit me that this would be an awesome opportunity to put to the test all the polishes I had on hand. After I scrubbed the wheel down with soap and brush, it was still so bad looking I was thinking I would need to sand it and use a polish compound to bring it back.
This is my ratings, not only for results, but also for ease of use. You can see in the pictures how bad the wheel was, and what the product did.
1. MAAS is a polish that a door to door salesman turn me onto. It is expensive, so I don’t normally use it on other people’s turds. I love this stuff, it will remove the little rust spots out of chrome, and water stains out of aluminum. It works best when applied and removed with a terry cloth, the polished out with a micro fiber rag.
2. Zep 5 star. I started using this for copper and brass, and found it works well on plastic lens. I sprayed some electro- cleaner on my engine to get the oil off, and found out the oil gauge had a plastic lens. Which melted the surface into a white goo. I sanded it out with sand paper, the used the 5 star, and I can read the gauge once again. It also good at taking out the fine scratches in aluminum .
3.California Custom purple metal polish, I ran across this at a truck stop. This is what I normally use when doing other peoples bikes, It’s cheep and works well.
4. Beats-um all, doesn’t. I ran across this at a car show. I watched the guy for a hour before I got sucked in to buying it. It works, but it takes a lot of rubbing. I’ll use it more for an after polish, because it does seem to stick to the aluminum longer.
Hold on there's more.
Thanks for the report and illustrations...:2thumbs:
