Welding Tips and Tricks

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

Hollywood1 wrote: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

Thanks Rick great idea.

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

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.

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

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.

Scotchbrite pads.

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

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.

Great! Thank you.

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

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

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

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

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

another picture

Looks good that way too.