Wednesday, May 03, 2006 - 11:01 am, by: Matthew Sharpe(Madmatt)
Looks like it might be stripping the laminate off? Honestly the best stuff for cleaning laminated mags is just plain old mild detergent and water. Never use a metal polish on laminate.
Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 09:01 am, by: Mike Triggs(Mikeandimah)
I think by laminated, we mean "painted" or " clear-coated". Polish for aluminium is meant to take off the layer of aluminium oxide which forms with time, and which takes the shine away.
Most highly polished alloy bits these days, like bullbars, have a layer of clear lacquer over the polished alloy- otherwise you'd always be polishing, just like the old days on motorcycle rims and motors. So they just need washing, like Matthew said.
Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 09:22 am, by: Mike Triggs(Mikeandimah)
I always preferred the "polished" look as opposed to painted, Matthew. I didn't mind a bit of polishing, we were always doing the big chrome mufflers anyway on bikes.
Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 10:46 am, by: Matthew Sharpe(Madmatt)
The problem with many wheel designs is its damn near impossible to get an even polish on them. One thing I found when aluminising telescope mirrors is that by dipping them in Goddards Silver Dip regularly (about every 6 months) they never seemed to oxidise. I wonder if it would work on alloy wheels?
Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 04:23 pm, by: Shane McInnes(Soarin_tt)
Matt, if you have a look on the Liquid Reflection Bottle, It tells you its not suitable to use on Laquered Metals. If your mags have some sort of Coating (Laquer) you shouldnt of used it. Bit late now though sorry.
The reason i ask where you got the Liquid Reflection from, is because my work is a small supplier of the liquid reflection.
Im in the Metal Plating industry so we get some costumers using the Liquid Reflection.
Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 06:22 pm, by: Kevin la Terra(Trdpsi)
when i used to pollish my bull bar on the hilux, i used the same stuff. It used to go a smudgy back color, but you really have to put some elbow-grease to get the most out of if, and the end results are like brand new. Now that you have started give it another go and really rub the sh!t out of it, even use a buff if you have to.
Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 06:54 pm, by: Avin Luther(Lex_luther)
metals that go black are suitable to be polished. Some surfaces taht dotn go black may be lacquered. i had set of wheels that had a lacquer that was scrathed and chipped. i first used oven cleaner and a scourer to get of the lacquer prior to polishing. I have since used paint stripper to remove it.
If its in good nick, dont remove and try to polish, you wont get any better result! and its very messy, hard work.