1976 280Z Restoration Project

[gwri8]

Look's like your Christmas it coming early this year. 

[wheee!]

It's more like my period.... monthly doses of both pain (financial) and relief (parts!)

[wheee!]

Cunifer tubing shines up bright with a little steel wool. Not silver but but very bright in comparison to the stock finish.

[gwri8]

If you keep polishing that thing you"ll go blind!   At least that's what I heard 

[Mark Maras]

I just heard that E.D. pills will do the same thing. Hmmm. Maybe it's not the pills.

[wheee!]

My damn tube, I'll polish it if I want to !

[grannyknot]

Try 0000 fine steel wool, the cunifer tube will come up like a mirror.

[gwri8]

Something to think about, will polishing make your tubing too stiff?   You may not be able to bend it until later on,  just saying..........

Way too many bad joke possibilities here and since I don't need much of a lead I'll just be quiet now .

[siteunseen]

It's your "tube", polish it as much as you want. 8^)

[ksechler]

OK, I'm gonna try to be serious about your tube....  No puns... promise. 

Did you buy or make the tool for straightening the tubing?  This is the one with five wheels.  It works like a charm.  You might want to buy, borrow, or steal one.  

[wheee!]

I am going to make the same one Grannyknot made for his build. Super simple. He ended up using hand bends for most of it though. Just the bottom frame rail section is the most obvious.

[Captain Obvious]

3 hours ago, gwri8 said:

will polishing make your tubing too stiff?

That's known as "work hardening". Basically the mechanical stresses result in local hardening of the material being worked. And worked. And worked.

Honestly, I tried to keep quiet, but it's like Roger Rabbit...