I am experimenting different ways to polish the tunnel. After some reading, I came up with a set of 8" pads and 3 different compounds(cant remember the name but rouges). I was using my 4 1/2" angle grinder, now I got out the big buffer. Its a Makita 9227c that I use for cars(not sleds). I bought some bench style polishing wheels so I could use the edge of pad and not the flat part. The problem is that to polish aluminum, you need 6000rpm. My buffer is variable speed but max rpm is 3000, it will work for what i'm doing but if I wanted to really get into this, I would get a 6000rpm one. All the materials were bought at menards so not the best variety of polishing stuff. I did not sand as most places on net said you have to do but I am doing the tunnel and too many rivets. I figured some pretty harsh compounds should do the trick. Its still a little smudgy but I'm getting there. One thing is with an 8 inch wheel, its very easy to make an oops. I would recommend taking the seat and plastic cover off rear bar, I caught the seat like 5 times trying to avoid the decals. These were not airway style wheels, just sewn cotton ones. I didn't do the foot boards, their good enough for now. Still needs touching up around rear mounts and seat oopses. Nothing like CB performance but for cheapo menards stuff, not bad.
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