polishing thread?

[Laverdaroo]

Pint 3..............?

[Sesman]

Ahem..

[Oddjob]

I've been using light blue then for the last half an hour white.

The brake steady arm bolt is well stuck - tried to press it out in the vice jaws by using a socket that just goes over the threads (9mm) and a large one on the other side that clears where it should emerge - no joy.

Currently giving it some releasing fluid again. Not tried heat yet.

First off Ted, light blue is too fine. You can spend all day using it and it won't make much difference TBH. What did you use to get it to that state?

Try heat Ted, it's your best friend.

[Nurse Julie]

I cant believe with the current price of electricity, that so much time is being spent on polishing. I am a novice polisher, I've done a few big bits over the years for Graham, under his guidance and I'm sure it never took so many hours. At that rate, it would cost £500 to get a professional polisher to do a brake plate at that hourly rate 😂😂😂😂I've just done half of this end cap, it took me less than 2 minutes and it hasn't had a final polish yet. This was just using a satin mop and a stage 2 soft mop, with no cutting back.

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Okay Julie what is a Satin Mop?

What is a Stage 2 mop?

No idea Ted. Its what's written on the big boxes of polishing supplies I buy from The Polishing Shop.

[Laverdaroo]

Ahem..

BAZINGA

[Oddjob]

I cant believe with the current price of electricity, that so much time is being spent on polishing.

A Dremel, even the most powerful Dremel is less than 200W, that means you can use it for 5 hours and you'll use 1 unit of electricity, that's around 16p approx. Hardly going to break the bank.

If you polish just using polishing compound and a polishing machine you'll just end up with a nice shiny piece that will look awful very very quickly as you've just sealed in all the contaminants hiding under the surface, these rise to the surface within weeks and the piece looks like it has leprosy. You can actually see them in your pic, those lighter grey areas. You also won't get rid of the gouges or scratches.

[Nurse Julie]

I cant believe with the current price of electricity, that so much time is being spent on polishing.

A Dremel, even the most powerful Dremel is less than 200W, that means you can use it for 5 hours and you'll use 1 unit of electricity, that's around 16p approx. Hardly going to break the bank.

If you polish just using polishing compound and a polishing machine you'll just end up with a nice shiny piece that will look awful very very quickly as you've just sealed in all the contaminants hiding under the surface, these rise to the surface within weeks and the piece looks like it has leprosy. You can actually see them in your pic, those lighter grey areas. You also won't get rid of the gouges or scratches.

Yes Ken, I did say I didn't flatten it off. I was waiting to give Graham a hand with something in the workshop and just started faffing on the wheel. I was just hoping to show to others what a professional polishing kit can achieve in less than a minute.

[Sesman]

😳🫣🤔

[Oddjob]

Phil, you are a master of the unintelligible. 

[Sesman]

I know. Think double entendres….

[Oddjob]

Are you 100% sure you're not Leslie Phillips 

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

A bit of heat from an old hair dryer, back in the vice jaws with suitable sockets on each side, big thump with my biggest rubber mallet and out the drum brake  steady stud  came - undamaged but we'll rusted on the shaft.

Currently soaking in Evaporust.

[Sesman]

Nice one Ted. Press on…👍

[Laverdaroo]

Success

Nice one Ted, keep on, keeping on

[mickwinf]

I am loosing the will to live, after about 6 goes at my sprocket cover it looks much better but not up to oddjobs standards. It will do for now as other things to do but may come back to it later.