teamblue02SRx
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Just wondering how much work it takes to polish my tunnel and how do you do it? How for do you have to take the sled apart?
i pulled the seat and the rear bumber and put airplane stripper on it and scraped off the paint with a piece of plastic.... Them i got some mothers aluminum buffing compound and i took a buffer and buffed it... I did not wet sand or dry sand. But im sure if you wanted it to look amazing you would have to do that. Mine looks great!
Cam/ Viper adict
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I too took Mothers aluminum polish to mine just last weekend. Took the seat and tank off. Took me about 6hrs but it did turn out good. Not showroom mirror finish but I ride it and who's going to see it when I am flying by them...
if you can do it with out scratching it, so aircraft paint stripper is the best stuff, with a body work plastic thing, works great. Its easy, if you scartch it and have to sand it .... diffrent story... But looks awesome, i love my tunnel.
rx1jim
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I polished the tunnel on my 03 RX-1 to a mirror finish, looked terrific. Keyword "looked". The aluminum gets pretty dull after a few days of riding. Kepping the mirror finish is a fair amount of work. I was going to strip the paint and polish the tunnels on both of my 2000 SRX's but will repaint them instead.
I TOTALLY AGREE, GETTING THE MIRROR FINISH IS THE EASY PART,KEEPING IT IS THE BIOTCHrx1jim said:
You have to wipe all the polished aluminum down after ever ride. Or it will dull the finish. but yes every couple weeks just polish it up...
I just pulled my SSX out of the storage today and the tunnel still shine from the polish job that I did last year when I rebuilt the sled. Just needs a quick polish to remove some scuffing from riding it. I think that the better you do the job the first time, I polished it the first time by sanding it and then using rouge and a felt flapper wheel on a 4" grinder. JMO
Many are starting to apply a clear coat after a new polishing. Keeps the shine much longer.
Waters88
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When you polish aluminum, if you use paste/liquid polish a small amount of it gets stuck in the "pores" of the metal. You can wipe it over and over again, it looks great, and you cant see it. If you polish a tunnel, and rub up against it, it scuffs. This is mostly caused by the metal still having a bit of polish on it.
Best way to stop this is after you are done polishing the metal, rub the whole tunnel down with baking flour. Sounds odd, but the flour will take the last of the polish off, and leave it even shinier. This will also help reduce the chance of scuffing from rubbing up against the tunnel.
Best way to stop this is after you are done polishing the metal, rub the whole tunnel down with baking flour. Sounds odd, but the flour will take the last of the polish off, and leave it even shinier. This will also help reduce the chance of scuffing from rubbing up against the tunnel.
Zachalyse said:
I polished the HX and a few other exterior pieces last year and clear coated them. Still holding up nicely. In the past and for parts under the hood, I clean after polishing with acetone and then apply some paste wax.
when i polished mine, after the aircraft stripper, i wet sanded/scrubed with very fine steel wool, then with very very fine, then used mothers on a flits ball on a cordless drill, i thought it was pretty easy