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Jerry Thomas

01-05-2007 11:14:36




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Hey what can I use to get my pipe to shine . it is several years old not rusted just has a yellow pattena and some dark stains from wet exaust dropplets . Thanks Jerry




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brad_bb

01-11-2007 13:39:21




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 Re: polishing stainless steel smoke stack in reply to Jerry Thomas, 01-05-2007 11:14:36  
Yes eastwood has the materials, but they don"t give you the knowledge. I spent a couple hours with a pro polisher to give me tips and techinques. Just a few of them are:
Don"t cross contaminate your wheels. Clean your part before going to the next wheel. I use wax and grease remover.
Heat is not good. Friction will cause heat. Too hot will melt the binder in the compound and most of it will fly off then. Keep the piece cool, alternate areas. I"m going to polish outside next week. You"ll get the majority of scratches out with our first wheel or second wheel with emory compound. It you didn"t get it out there and you see it in your next wheel, you"re going to need to go back. Emory compound does all the cutting, the next compounds do very little.
Be extremely careful how you hold your part. The first time you let the wheel catch the edge of your part and it rips it out of your hands across the room you are going to be cussing up a storm.
Wear eye, ear, and breathing protection, to if ands or buts. Holding your workpiece on a 15 or so degree angle to the wheel lets you leave polishing marks in one direction. Switch the part to 15 degrees on the other side of the wheel and work out all the original marks. This method helps you see when you have got all the scratches out from the previous buff. If there are any marks in that direction that won"t come out, you may need to clean and go back to the previous compound or emory.
A lot of damage can be repaired in stainless - dents, crushes, creases etc. Most of the time you don"t need a trim hammer. Pieces of hard oak and soft pine can be shaped to a variety of rubbing tools to rub and push dents out. Often the soft pin is used as a backer and the oak is used to rub back and forth on the dent or crease to rub it back into shape. On difficult areas grease is sometimes used with the pushing too to reduce friction. You can get to rubbing quite hard. The goal in a repair is to have to do as little sanding or filing as possible.
The exhaust pipe shouldn"t be bad to polish. You could also easily send it out to get done, depending on how frugal you are.

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michael price

01-05-2007 20:13:06




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 Re: polishing stainless steel smoke stack in reply to Jerry Thomas, 01-05-2007 11:14:36  
If you just want it to look nice then use the bbq cleaner. If your going to the pull and want to impress the ladies then get a buffing wheel for your bench gringer.



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Yugrotcart

01-05-2007 14:06:04




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 Re: polishing stainless steel smoke stack in reply to Jerry Thomas, 01-05-2007 11:14:36  
Jerry,
I bought some stainless cleaner for my BBQ, works great. Pick some up and give it a try. I do know one thing, do not use steel wool.

Paul



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B-maniac

01-06-2007 07:29:04




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 Re: polishing stainless steel smoke stack in reply to Yugrotcart, 01-05-2007 14:06:04  
If it is true stainless steel and not a plating of some kind , you can even sand out flaws and polish it back up like chrome. You can get everything you need at Eastwood Co. (WWW.eastwood.com) Try what the others said first , it's probably cheaper , but if'n that don't work try eastwood.



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