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Well, after sanding, and polishing with mothers/eagle 1, I thought the Fuchs looked pretty good. Then I used a 4" buffing wheel with some Jewellers rouge. AMAZING. As a final step, this stuff is incredible. Takes out all of the fine remaining scratches and really brings out the "mirror".
Highly recommend it. I used the white block, which is the second highest, red being higher. Jim
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Yeah, I've been doing the same routine. Polished my fuchs up a month or so ago, with similar results -- "Wow." Just applied a polishing wheel to my fan. After hours of scrubbing and scraping, 30 seconds with a polishing wheel made my jaw drop. Awesome stuff.
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Now try some Rottenstone...
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What size wheel did you use to get into the blades? Or did you use felt bobs? Jim
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How do you apply the rottenstone? - Mix w/water?
Does anybody have any experience with a side by side comparison of some products say: 1, Tripoli followed by white compond with spiral sewn buffing wheel 2. Flitz 3. The newer micro-diminishing particle products like Poorboys SSR 2.5 4. Mothers 5. The method NASA uses with india ink particles Any measurements on size of particles/hardness? And then there is the protection after it is shiny. What works best? Wheel wax, Carauba, AIO, MopN Glo, ? Is Zoopseal worth the price of admission? |
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I'm a dentist and we use Tripoli on a rag wheel to polish gold restorations. Can't get a finer/highly polished finish on gold. Now gold is softer than forged alum. When I'm finished with Tripoli the crown looks like it will glow in the dark. Used it on a rag wheel. Makes a mess (black dust all over the place). Wear gloves or your hands will get realy dirty and eye protection. I have used it on my wheels and the results are just spectacular. The only drawback is my wife complaining about the mess. She wants to know when I'm going to "floss" the wheels...maybe it's worth a try? Alan
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I have used Flitz before and it is good for a quick job. I use regular old flour to get rid of all the 'black' stuff that comes off and it is good to go. Then you just vacuum up the flour.
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YOu could just follow the seuence and directions for a French Polish re the Rottenstone.
Be aware tho, that any abrasive polish - even a fine one - is removeing the anodized surface. |
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With 35 year old Fuchs, I pretty much had no choice but to remove the anodization due to scratches, gouges etc...
Plus, the difference in the final polished finish between anodized and not is huge. Jim
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Other than an air drill with a polishing wheel, what would you guys use? Will electric give me the rpm's needed to polish? I know cordless are too slow, but electric run a bit faster.
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I used my electric 3/8 drill with a mushroom buff to apply the Eagle 1 (same as Mothers). Then I used the drill and a 4" Buffing wheel to apply the rouge.
Full throttle on the electric wasn't even required and I found that if too much speed is used when applying the polish, it dries it too much and cakes it on. Jim
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I use the flour to wipe off all the black residue stuff. It works great and the stuff just wipes off with the flour leaving no trace. Then there is obviously a pile of flour by each wheel that you just vacuum up. Brian
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Have used Flitz for years on leading edges on airplane wings. Works great but can be messy... course other methods are as well!
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I have used Flitz on our Citation and the spinner on the king air I used to fly. The stuff can be messy, but that is what the flour does is just sprinkle it liberally on the residue and just wipe it off and then vacuum up the rest. Taping helps alot, but time consuming. With the wheels, I usually do it by hand to avoid the splatters of the stuff going everywhere.
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What typr of stores sells jewlers rouge?
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