. . .on an aluminum shaft. Any suggestions on how to polish it up and make it pretty? I’m not talking deep scratches, just wear and tear stuff.
I’d drop Mack Hoover a line, he works with aluminum.
They sell cloth impregnated with jewellers rouge that I’ve used to touch up both aluminum and brass whistles. One caveat – wash the whistle very well after polishing – if you get a little of the stuff on a tuning slide, things will become loose very quickly.
Toothpaste… I used it to polish my aluminum model helicopter parts!
It won’t take out scratches. For scratches, I suggest ultra fine steel wool (#000 available in many paint or hardware stores) but you’ll have to do the whole surface to get an even appearance. Use only one SMALL piece for the whole job. Wet the steel wool with toothpaste and a few drops of water.
toothpaste? shewt! I’m going to try it right now! we’ll see if it needs more after that…
Thanks for the advice!
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Tyghress
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Okay, that got out a phenomenal amount of grunge. Smells good. Now I’ll look into jewelers rouge or steel wool for the scratches. I wonder how pretty I can make this thing?
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I use a product called “Flitz” a metal polish and fiberglass cleaner. Comes in a tube. A little bit goes a long way and leaves sort of a protective coat.
jim
I have always used with unerring success on both brass and aluminum (except the black anodized aluminum O’Riordans - afraid of harming the black surface even with ultra fine)0000 ultra fine steel wool and finished with a jeweler’s cloth.
Philo
On 2003-01-17 21:03, tyghress wrote:
toothpaste? shewt! I’m going to try it right now! we’ll see if it needs more after that…[ This Message was edited by: tyghress on 2003-01-17 21:09 ]
Yeah, should get it into ‘mint’ condition.
I’m sorry, it’s been one of those days. I should be working, you know…
Ghastly pun, there… Of course
flouride makes aluminum
radioactive. I second
very fine steel wool.