Re-polishing old alloy

Robert Norton said:

I'd like to polish up my oldish alloy cranks etc. Anyone know of a polish
for this? TIA
Rob N

Solvol Autosol.
If there is some sort of laquer on them, you'll have to remove that first.

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mb said:

Robert Norton said:

I'd like to polish up my oldish alloy cranks etc. Anyone know of a polish
for this? TIA
Rob N

Solvol Autosol.
If there is some sort of laquer on them, you'll have to remove that first.

as above, but use it with some '000' grade steel wool if it is
particulalry tarnished or scratched

mb said:

Robert Norton said:

I'd like to polish up my oldish alloy cranks etc. Anyone know of a
polish for this? TIA
Rob N

Solvol Autosol.

Or any metal poloish. Autosol is good though.

Quoted message said:

If there is some sort of laquer

or anodising

Quoted message said:

on them, you'll have to remove that first.

No black mark on cloth when attempting to polish = coated or anodised.

~PB

Pete Whelan said:

mb said:

Robert Norton said:

I'd like to polish up my oldish alloy cranks etc. Anyone know of a
polish for this? TIA
Rob N

Solvol Autosol.
If there is some sort of laquer on them, you'll have to remove that
first.

as above, but use it with some '000' grade steel wool if it is
particulalry tarnished or scratched

Not sure about using an abrasive, no matter how fine. When I used to
polish up crank cases on motorbikes I would use Solvol Autosol and rub
it with cardboard. Beautiful shine, lots of work.

Sniper8052

Sniper8052(L96A1) said:

Pete Whelan said:

mb wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Solvol Autosol.
If there is some sort of laquer on them, you'll have to remove that
first.

as above, but use it with some '000' grade steel wool if it is
particulalry tarnished or scratched

Not sure about using an abrasive, no matter how fine. When I used to
polish up crank cases on motorbikes I would use Solvol Autosol and rub
it with cardboard. Beautiful shine, lots of work.

Autosol is abrasive. Things are polished by replacing big scratches with
little scratches. They look shiny when the scratches are too fine to see by
eye.

When a part is badly scratched, you need quite coarse abrasives to start
with, then progressively finer.

~PB

Robert Norton said:

I'd like to polish up my oldish alloy cranks etc. Anyone know of a polish
for this? TIA
Rob N

I have used Brasso Duraglit metal polishing wadding. It is very finely
abrasive and brings up alloy really shiny.