The Old "Metal Polish" Scam

Lokix · Jan 4, 2012

"The Tucson Polisher" sounds like a bad western novel villain!

Skillet_okie · Jan 4, 2012

The best polish i ever used my dad showed me how to make fortunately, i also got the ingredients. NO BAKING SODA, NO WATER, NO ROUGE BARS.. i played with it and tuned it, and now i make the best polish i have ever used... as far as store bought your going to have a hard time beating zeypher...

77bronco · Apr 19, 2014

Passin Thru said: ↑

My nephew in Meadville PA polishes truck wheels on a machine. Come out better than new.
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I realize this is an old thread, but does your nephew still polish in meadville. I'm restoring an old bronco, and may need wheels polished. I have heard that he does a fantastic job, but can't seem to find any contact info. I wanted to private message his uncle (passin thru) but new members to this forum are not permitted to PM others. Thanks for any help.

h11way · Apr 20, 2014

Duc tape replaced bondo a long time ago.Best scam is 3 card montee.Have never seen the medal polish scam. At one time the union driver's referred to owner-op's as shiney wheels.

Fullforce · Jun 2, 2014

I just bought some baking soda and mixed it with water. DOESNT WORK!!! at all, I tried making it thick and pasty, still DOESNT WORK!!
whats the trick? it wont even mix with water it just completely separates itself after about a minute.
Ive got some mothers polish (exspensive) and it worked like a charm on a small spot (turned black wiped it off and shining like new)
The baking soda/water just slings right off the pad and doesnt polish ANYTHING. lol

maybe i got the wrong kind of baking soda?

Starboyjim · Jun 5, 2014

So you buy a green bar, and a white bar, makes about 8 bottles? Not bad for price. This will produce nice, chrome-shiny wheels?

Daniels shine & drive · Dec 3, 2015

I'm a truck detailer in south ga. And North fla. Area and I use the mineral spirits and rouge mixture any thing else is a waste of time when polishing.

TruckerTO · May 25, 2016

Daniels shine & drive said: ↑

I'm a truck detailer in south ga. And North fla. Area and I use the mineral spirits and rouge mixture any thing else is a waste of time when polishing.
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What is this mixture?

stacks · May 29, 2016

Puyallup Washington state it's a loves truckstop if I'm not mistaken there used to always be an East Indian guy there doing the same scam .

EverLuc · Jul 17, 2016

gearslammer said: ↑

Im not saying that their aren't some polish scammers out here because I am sure their are...But I wouldnt advise taking a sip of this metal polish lol... Most polish men that have the polish that is in a 20 oz drink bottle have diferent things mixed in that bottle.

But I will tell you what most polish guys use to make thier own polish and that is Zephyr brown tripoli heavy to medium cutting rouge bar or Zephyr green medium to light cutting rouge bar mixed with paint thinner most of them use mineral spirits oderless paint thinner made by Kwik Strip. Some guys take the green bar and mix it with a 1/4 of the white zephyr final finish rouge bar in the mineral spirits oderless paint thinner in which I recommend... Some guys add rain-X to repel the water which to me is kinda over kill concidering that the Zephyr Bars is a compound which is like wax so natural the Zephyr bar that is mix in the polish mix will act like a wax that repels water.

And I know some of you drivers will say,,, ahhh that stuff dont last long enough well I know from personal experience that it will last for a long time unless of course you run in the rain alot because think about it rain is acid rain because of polution in the air, polution from the chemicals on the road like gas, oil, and diesel. And what does gas do to a paint job or grease gas will strip paint and cut grease and well the polish compound is a wax compound so if there is gas on the roads from leaky cars, trucks etc etc and it rains and that rain gets on your aluminum then naturally the gas or desiel that is coming up off the road during the rain is going to cut all the polish off your aluminum in time.

Snow in the brine mix they put on roads or you do alot of traveling along the coast naturally mud, brine, and salt water is going to make your aluminum look like crap and salt will defenantly break down the polish and start making your aluminum dull and pitted.

You can find the Zephyr brown, green, and white rouge bars in most Petro's and T/A truckstops the brown bar is around 12 dollars the green and white are around 10 dollars. Now you can buy magic mix for like 12 to 14 dollars in comes in like a 8 0z bottle, White Diamond for like 14 to 19 dollars in a 12 oz bottle. Zephyr pro 40 metal polish from I think 18 dollars to 39.99. And all them polishes are good polishes I prefer Zephyr pro 40 but I dont see paying 18 to 39 dollars for a bottle.

So this what I do I buy the Zephyr Green rouge bar for 10.99 and I goto wal-mart and I buy a gallon of Kwik Strip meneral spirits oderless paint thinner and I take my electric outside stove and I get a old pot and I will put 1 pound Zephyr Green bar and a 1/4 of the white bar in the pot and i will pour about a 1/4 of the mineral spirit in the pot. Now their is two ways you can do this you can shred the bar and let it set in the thinner over night and it should desolve over night into the mineral spirit. Or I myself melt the bar in the pot, now you dont want to breath the fumes and dont be stupid and put it on high and not watch what your doing now if your careful and use your brain you can melt the bar into the meneral spirit.

1 one pound bar of Zephyr green rouge and 1/4 of the white rouge bar and 1 gallon of mineral spirits normally makes me about 8 20oz bottles of polish when you pour the mix from the pot into the bottles fill the bottle half way and let the polish settle drop a washer or a old nut into the bottle so when you do use the polish you will have something in the bottle that will break up the green settlement on the bottom, just like the little BB you hear inside of a paint can does.

When you see that a 1/4 of the bottle is solid green polish then take the mineral spirits paint thinner and fill the bottle the rest of the way. Dont pour the whole mix in the pot into a bottle because then you have too much polish in one bottle.

If you do that trust me you will be 100% satisfied with the polish take a old tarnish penny or anything copper,silver,aluminum,gold or chrome that is just black with tarnish and test the polish out trust me you will be happy.

I drive a truck myself but I also run a small polishing business on the side I refurbish wheels,tanks,steps,grills,cat walks,bumpers, pondtoons, motorcycle parts and wheels etc etc I do it by hand and by sanding, high speed cutter/buffing machines.

But getting back to the polish that you have seen someone selling in a 20oz bottle if it was made with actual rouge bars then I think you got a pretty good deal to get a 20oz bottle for 20 dollars concidering a 16oz bottle of just about any type of liquid polish normally goes for 15 to 20 dollars. 16oz vs 20oz hmmm do the math. granted the polish man might not have but maybe 5 dollars per bottle in making the polish from buying a rouge bar and a gallon of mineral spirits that most likely cost him around 22 dollars in total to get both the bar and paint thinner and he made about 8 bottles from it. But you cant look at it like that because trust me the name brand companies are making money off their polish too and it isnt going to do no more or protect any better than making a polish from the rouge bar and mineral spirit paint thinner...

Keep it between ditches catch ya on the flip side
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Ihave done this with a blue bar. It does not seem to cut those deep white deposits in the aluminum. Then, say when it does get deep into the aluminum and u go to buff it, good grief is it about a pain to finally get all of the residue off. What gives?

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