Aluminum polishing? What are your best tips?

Thanks all for the help, looking forward to a Harbor Freight run this weekend lol

 

Well they’re not perfect but I’m pretty happy with how they turned out! A bit bummed the variable speed switch on my $30 special polisher was bad out of the box though lol

 

Looks good from my house!

Didn’t see the before wheel but if you keep up on them they stay petty nice and easy to polish. Let them get crusty for a few years and they get harder to keep shiny.

 

Looks good man! As long as they shine in the sun at 65... looks good from this side of the freeway

 

Where did you get the foam pad for the harbor freight buffer? Do they sell them at Harbor Freight also ?

 

Yes the do, I bought a foam pad for mine when I bought it. They had a pretty good selection of different foam pads for 6” and 7” polishers

 

Well Mr do it yourself, pay someone who does it for a living the first time. (First is worst) puck thier brain and if you like thier work. But thier polish or the brand they use. Then do your own upkeep. What I did on my last truck was. I let them cut and polish the first time. Then let blue beacon do the rest, and every now and then. Pay the truck stop guy $5 a wheel to do a upkeep polish. If they wanted more than $5 I would just say NOPE I do it myself (although I dont)

 

Flash polish or Renegade Red for the initial "cut" .. they are amazingly fast and get you 85-90% of the finished product.

Flash polish green works good to get the final mirror.

An angle grinder with yellow wheel and a drill with a mother's ball(small and large) will both help you polish in record time with ease!

 

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