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AshimotoK0:

--- Quote from: Oddjob on December 01, 2022, 03:04:50 PM ---Approx £100 a wheel for those 3m wheels Ash. Bit expensive if I don't like them.

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I will try and make a video for you to assess Ken. I don't know why they are so expensive. I don't remember the machine with 2 wheels being mega dear.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Saw my BiL today when he cleans up alloy fork legs he use Wet & Dry starting with 500 grit working stepwise to 1500 grit - here is the difference he does not use water but 3in1 oil as the wetting agent - takes around 4 hours it in total to obtain the  mirror finish.
You know  when it's done as the oil residue ends up clear. Final wipe off reveals the mirror effect.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Tried the 3 in 1 oil it seemed to give a satin effect - this is the result so far on my 500 fork legs.

Total time is now around 5 hours to do both legs - not to Ken's standard but an improvement from when I started. Not finished yet but it's getting better.




..500 fork legs by Macabe Thiele, on Flickr

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
To hell with polishing stuff I've had enough - not doing any more this year it will have to wait.☹️☹️☹️

Laverdaroo:
leave it and fiddle with some other stuff mate, it gets you like that sometimes. Looking like its coming on though, all of a sudden it will start to come up nice really easy. Have a bash tomorrow ;) ;D

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