polishing..look at this

MY new to me 82 kz1000 ltd had a lot of stains ect on the aluminum all over the bike, Before i got out the rouge and the dremmel i decided to try a product named Gords aluminum polish...i am pretty happy with the results, took out stuff other polishes i tried couldnt even touch.

here is the before

after

barly any work, took less than 2 hours

Looks darn good. Anytime we can get good results with little work, we will listen. Can you get an identical pic like the first one so we can get a better comparison? Thanks

i am out of town on buisness, but i will as soon as i get back on saturday. I wish i would have taken pics of the fork tubes, it really cleaned those babies up good. I did three coats, first two with super fine steel wool, and last one with just a red shop rag.


here is the other side after 1 coat(forgot to take a before)

other side after 3 coats(45 mins work allowing for drying time)

Looks pretty good! Where do you get Gord's aluminum polish?

looks good man, did you ever try blue magic? that stuff is unreal.

ive allways had great luck with mothers aluminum polish any kind of polish is going to take a lot of rubbing ive got piles of old t-shirts i use just keep using a clean spot on the rag your using as long as youre getting black stuff on your rag keep on rubbing.be very carefull using a dremel to polish aluminum parts ,i spent a few hours the other day filing and block sanding a lower fork leg to get the waves out that someone put in there polishing them with a dremel.:whistle:

Post edited by: wireman, at: 2006/03/04 19:54

i tried mothers and it did not get as much out as gords did, and the work with gords was easier. i have never tried to use the blue magic. gordsaluminumpolish.com/index.html is the website for gords. Unfortunatly, i decided i was going to drive her up to arkansas, and about 200 miles into the trip i am pretty sure i blew a piston ring. Back into the shop she goes.

I just spent several hours doing the same thing basically, looks like on the same engine. My sides were tarnished badly, and there was a layer of laquer covering a big part of each side cover. I used paint stripper to remove the laquer and then 3m rubbing compound and then mothers billet polish with a buffing attachment on my drill. Still a ways to go, but a major improvement.

Before...