...anyone have or know where to find a how to?

go to the nearest truck stop they sell bars of compund and wheels for a bench grinder thats the way i used to polish my stainless 3 inch exhaust tips

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Have a look at this forum http://forum.eastwoodco.com/ it has a section on polishing and buffing. The parent company can set you up with the stuff to get you started. After you get it figured, and if you want to continue, there are many places to get the products cheaper.

There is a buffer where I work, it has 2 wheels about 15" wide, on each side and has a 5HP motor, basically looks like a giant bench grinder. Then there is the polish you put on the buffing wheels, it is hard, and different colors, there is black, green, and white. Basically different grits, I think the black is the coarsest, then green, then white, depending on how bad it is, you gradually work up to the white.

seems to me last time i saw this done they used a powder at the end too...cant remember wtf it was though...no wait they used corn starch ...tim

edited cuz i was close but misinformed....

[This message has been edited by thismanyfieros (edited 04-09-2007).]

fwiw, you will only need the black rouge for stainless. it will come up like a mirror. you can get possible shinier going thru the various other ones, but for trim work and most applications, just the black will suffice.

...ok, I probably should have meantioned it in my original post - the item can not be used with a bench grinder. Do they make a buffing wheel that will work on a angle grinder (or perhapes an air drill or similar)?

...and thanks to all for the info so far...

sure. you can get buffing wheels for anything. drills, dremel's etc. it is just a linen cloth wheel, you can buy them at most home tool centers. I think an angle grinder may be too fast, while a drill is a little slow, especially on the smaller drill sized wheels, but better too slow as the wheel won;t fly apart.
A little expensive, but you do get all the rouges and an assortment of buffing wheels for drills and angle grinders...
http://www.harborfreight.co...taf?Itemnumber=94965

I have used one with my air grinder, just turn the air pressure down so it slows down some.

I think the powder your referring to is ' Corn Starch'. I used to use it on custom paint jobs after rubbing them out to eliminate the swirl marks. You just sprinkled it all over and used a clean wool pad. Modern finish polishes and swirl removers have done away with the need.

You can also use corn starch to keep the black crap off of your gloves from transferring to you buffed product.

How you go about the job depends on what it is where it is and how poor the original surface is. If you have a poor surface, you may want to start with "Norton beartex" type wheels. After that you could switch to a cotton buff and some tripoli compound followed by a color buff and some green color compound. I could go on, but with out knowing what you are attempting I'm wasting my limited typing skills ;^) There are so many methods to do what you require. The reason I suggested the buffing forum is so you could research and find out the method that best suits you, your tooling and the job you have to do.

On this page http://www.eastwoodco.com/j...nCat=433&iSubCat=436 you will find some kits. I'm not saying they are good ones. They are just a few of many available.

...ok thanks for the info, just tossed out a bag of pluses as well

quote Originally posted by Mickey_Moose: ...ok, I probably should have meantioned it in my original post - the item can not be used with a bench grinder. Do they make a buffing wheel that will work on a angle grinder (or perhapes an air drill or similar)?

Check Princess Auto. http://princessauto.com I've seen a large section in the store with buffing wheels and compounds of all kinds.

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