Zs-ondabrain Posted December 24, 2003 Share #13 Posted December 24, 2003 and one more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Laury Posted December 24, 2003 Share #14 Posted December 24, 2003 Good job on that intake manifold. Since that's a normaly rough casting, it took quite a bit of flatening work to bring that up to par!Short cut - you can "get a away" without sanding on well finished pieces, by using a sisal buff (very rough) with emery compound (very aggressive), first, before moving to the tripoli.1st step - emery compound on sisal - hard pressure, move piece against buff rotation (cutting motion)2nd step - Clean all the emery compound off!3rd step - Tripoli compound on spiral buff - hard pressure, cutting motion. The work will get very hot during this step!4th step - Clean again! It's very important not to contaminate your next step, the coloring.5th step - white rouge on loose flannel or single stitch pillow buffmedium pressure, moving piece with buff rotation (color motion)This short cut works pretty well on clean work. It will not take out pits, or deep imperfections. Nothing beats staged sanding. On semi finished cast pieces (like Dave's intake manifold) there's no short cuts (right Dave?).If you want to polish your carb domes, BE VERY CAREFULL! you must cut back on the pressure and buff time, as the heat will pull them out-of-round (not good).Always be very carefull around the edges of the piece and the buff. At 3,000 RPM, if you catch an edge on the buff, it WILL tear the work out of your hands and likely take a piece of you with it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveK Posted December 24, 2003 Share #15 Posted December 24, 2003 Hey I now need sunglasses every time I read this thread :cross-eye Its a good job you guys aren’t firemen -- all that polishing and all those helmets LOL LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bambikiller240 Posted December 25, 2003 Share #16 Posted December 25, 2003 I think the best thing is for one of the Super Moderators to just move the entire thread into the Technical Articles Forum. I moderate the Tech Articles forum, but I can only move threads out, not into that forum. I tried to copy a printable version of it, but it's too large, plus we loose the pictures. I'll PM Keith and Victor & see it they'll do it for you "polishers". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ManyZs Posted December 25, 2003 Share #17 Posted December 25, 2003 Done......:classic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bambikiller240 Posted December 25, 2003 Share #18 Posted December 25, 2003 Originally posted by 2ManyZs Done......:classic: Ignore the PM then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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