polish your king....
Hi Monark 52,
okay send your hexbar to me....i will polish it for you...just kidding...men a hexbar i want it to for my collection okay,okay , i'll stop dreaming, i have search a lot of day to do a perfect job on the aluminium, so what was my goal? do i polish it to death?do i want it in concours condition?
I wanted to be nice but not concourse condition, i mean i also want to ride it with sunny days, so what was nice enough? if you have some old deep scratches...leave them and accept them the bike is from the '30...and is in a used condition...so my frame have heavy corrosion on it and "new"scratches from someone who started the job but didn't finished it..so you have to start to wetsand it...scary? a little bit,because you make new scratches agiain, first
you decrease the frame ...then in my case
start with ;#80,#120,#220,#320,#400,#600,#800,#1000,#1200,#2000..take your time and do it in a sort of session otherwise you going get made, have a coffee with it and some good music that keep you going and use a little bit of soap in your water when sanding it and be sure to sand it one direction so only one way and back , make no crossing movements! and don't press to hard on the sand paper, let the sandpaper do the work!
when you start you have 'new' scratches and the aluminium looks a bit brighter then it was also because you sand out the first amount of weather out of it then go further with the rest of the sanding tabel but be sure to send it al the same direction wich you did before!so afhter a good 4/5 days of sanding or if you have the time 3 days , then the last proces with the 2000 grid it wil be very smooth aluminium and you have a mat shiny aluminium,buy some micro cloths or an old clean t-shirt to wipe the frame clean and decrease it again! so this is the point it will going to be shiny!you can polish it, what whe have here in holland is polish soap, if you have it there use the blue one take a electric-bore ( i don't know the good word for it ) with a wheel-polisher-pad and start to polish be be very carefull to hold the electric-bore very tight otherwise it will smash against you frame and you have a new deeper scratch and that ain't funny....but you live in the states and if you have some more money go to this site (
http://www.perfectpolish.com ) and send a mail to
[email protected] and send your picture of the frame and he again explane how to polish your frame with there products, and there very good and i think it is worth it, i also send him pictures of my bike and he like the polishing job very much...
so if you want more information you can send me an email (
[email protected] )..here is an picture of a wingbar in the same state wich mine where and nice to know this frame was sold on graiglist for $100....