[Hollywood1]

How about it any way to brush or rolac pad aluminum kind of cool without polishing? Thanks John

[Rick_H]

How about it any way to brush or rolac pad aluminum kind of cool without polishing? Thanks John

I use a Metabo burnishing tool, keeps everything inline with the grain, you can sand with various grits, smooth with scotchbrite rolls or polish.

http://www.metabo.us/Burnishing-Machine ... 369.0.html

[Hollywood1]

Thanks Rick great idea.

[Hollywood1]

Can you go over the welds on aluminum and have them still look good?

[Hollywood1]

I was thinking about doing this on my overflow tank. I have a picture under new posts on forum for overflow tank. After you look at the picture can u tell me if the machine would work well for that application. Thanks John.

[AndersK]

I use a roloc-scotchbrite-type pad on a die grinder for a smooth satin finnish. Both on the welds and material.

Can take some photos later if interesting

[kiwi2wheels]

Use an orbital finishing sander ( the type that has spring clips to hold the paper ) with scotchbrite for a quick and easy finish.

Play around with grades to suit.

[big gear head]

Scotchbrite pads.

[Hollywood1]

Great. Thank you I sure appreciate all the ideas. John.

[Rick_H]

Yes you can hit the welds with no damage, it will clean the entire thing out. I use the flapper style scothbrite wheel then.

I use this at work for all my stainless work, it blends everything together and can duplicate the grain, its great on flat pieces and round vessels.

At home I use to just use scothbrite pads and elbow grease, green, red, grey and the white. I've also used Borax powder hand soap and a nail brush (for your dirty hands and nails), it pulls the dirt out of the metal and smooths it all out.

[Hollywood1]

Great! Thank you.

[Rick_H]

If you were closer I'd say bring it over or a sample piece and I'll do it up.

[Hollywood1]

Well i'm pretty happy with how this turned out. Used a stainless brush and then a red scotchbrite all in one direction. What do you think? Thanks Rick and everyone else. John

[Rick_H]

I like that look, I've done that to some cold side turbo piping and custom air intakes I've done over the years.

I still haven't decided if I'm going polish the sheet metal intake I'm going to fab for my car or not

[big gear head]

Looks nice. That is what I did to the aluminum panels that I used under the hood of my Camaro.

[Hollywood1]

Well now I just polished so it has a mixture of shine and brush. I sure aappreciate all the helpful tips.

[Hollywood1]

another picture

[big gear head]

Looks good that way too.