Polishing Grp

[Guest Mike Hatton]

My series IIIa is now over 3 years old and the nose cone and wings are looking very dull.

What is the best way to bring back that just built shine?

 

Should I use T-cut?

What polish?

A dedicated polisher or drill attachment?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Mike.

[Guest JohnS]

T-Cut would be fine

Other polishing / cutting compounds such as G10 avalable from paint shops,

I find that Autosol chrome/stainless polish also works well on milky areas its course but not to hard on things,

Unless you have a lot to do I would not use a mechanical polisher as this can leave marks and or burn the surface if not kept wet enough,

2 or 3 hours on the drive sunny sunday morning hand polishing should see you done,

After that Autoglym (super resin polish) easy to apply and take off she will look like new, I also use the Autoglym on the stainless.

 

JohnS

[Longboarder]

If the colour is very faded you may need to cut back using wet & dry paper, used wet, starting with 400 grade which will take out any imperfections in the surface. Then progress through 800, 1000, 1500 to get a fine mat finish which will polish up beautifully with T-cut then wax. Use lots of water throughout. If you are patient you can end up with a finish like a top paint job.

 

Nigel

[Jon Bradbury]

In the build video for the DOHC kits, Richard uses a polishing mop on the end of a drill, after first rubbing down with varying grades of wet&dry. The effect looked quite good... given that to start with he puts a great big scratch in the grp with a stanley knife blade.

 

This is an old piece of footage by the way, so it is probably on ther build videos.

 

Regards

 

JonB

[Guest Mr Pid]

Follow what Nigel said and you should have a brilliant finish, but patience is a big factor tho, a little tip- dont fold the wet and dry back on itself and this has a slight tendancy to remove figerprints, alothough this might be handy depending on what side of the law you operate on!!

 

[Guest boggie]

I did this job last weekend. I used 1000 grade oxide paper with plenty of soapy water and followed this with T-cut. Next I applied plenty of Autoglym polish and sealed the finish with Gloss Guard (both available from Halfords). Now looks fantastic and even managed to impress the local insect colonies!

Boggie