Polishing out SS Vent window trim - oh yeah!!

[cmayna]

After a lot of fricken research, I decided to polish out the vertical SS trim that seperates the vent window from the roll up door glass.

Shag's pieces are/were pretty scratched up to the point that when installed with the newly chromed vent window frame, they would stand out like a sore thumb. So either I was going to take the pieces in to a local polisher to do his magical stuff to them and wait....or do them myself.

With a lot of various grades of wet or dry sand paper, different buffing compounds, etc, I chose to tackle one of them today. WTF? I'm in the wrong business!!!! Tomorrow I will do the other side. This will allow me to start loading up the door as soon as Monday. Otherwise if I had chosen to go with a local polisher, I would be waiting for a couple week.

Homey don't play that game!!!!

 

[RyanG85]

Re: Polishing out SS Vent window trim

Care to elaborate on your techniques and materials or is that top secret? I recently broke my stuff down for rechroming and will need to do the same with the stainless.

 

[garner67]

'bout time you got Shag's butt in gear.

nice work.

 

[Neglected68]

+1 on more details of your polishing methodology. Nice results!

 

[66gt350]

Looking good!!! When can I send you all my trim to get polished!

 

[cmayna]

Here, I have attached the SS trim to the chromed frame. Looks pretty good in my books.

Polishing out scratches in SS is simply done with a variety of different grades of wet or dry sand paper followed by buffing with a couple different rouges. It all depends on how severe the scratches are. This will dictate which grade of paper you start out with.

But assuming the scratches are sever, you might go for 220, 400, 600, 1000, 1500 grit paper. For an ultimate finish you might add 2000 grit at the end. This is all using water and wet/dry sand paper. Tons of elbow grease. Once you have gone through all the papers, you then polish with a couple different rouges and polishing wheels. If you plan to remove dents with a small chisel hammer from the backside, you will then need to file the outside surface afterwards. Once filed smooth you then start with the 220 paper and go on from there.

Lastnight, I carefully polished out one of the glass vent window frames by applying blue tape on the glass along the frame and carefully sanded and polished afterwards. Turned out pretty neat.

My arms are very sore from all the sanding done this weekend.

 

[KBMWRS]

My arms are very sore from all the sanding done this weekend.

Yeah ..sanding....right. :amaz :lol :vic