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Mr. Chevy 09-17-2016 04:12 PM

POLISHING SCRATCHES OUT OF STAINLESS TRIM
 
Anyone have any tricks to getting scratches out of stainless trim????

Thanks Rich

68l30 09-17-2016 04:34 PM

Re: POLISHING SCRATCHES OUT OF STAINLESS TRIM
 
Needs to come off and put on a series of buffing wheels... What ya working on?

BIG

Mr. Chevy 09-17-2016 04:48 PM

Re: POLISHING SCRATCHES OUT OF STAINLESS TRIM
 
Got a little scratch on my Impala body side molding...

YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY 09-19-2016 05:21 PM

Re: POLISHING SCRATCHES OUT OF STAINLESS TRIM
 
I like to wet sand with 2500, then 3000, then to buffing - it's therapeutic...

earntaz 09-19-2016 05:40 PM

Re: POLISHING SCRATCHES OUT OF STAINLESS TRIM
 
That's a heck of a way of putting it ... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img]

68l30 09-19-2016 06:10 PM

Re: POLISHING SCRATCHES OUT OF STAINLESS TRIM
 
I have a hard scotch-brite wheel that works wonders before buffing...some tig gloves to hold the trim and buff away...send me a pic Rich.


BIG

cook_dw 09-19-2016 08:13 PM

Re: POLISHING SCRATCHES OUT OF STAINLESS TRIM
 
Just make sure it is bare stainless.. On some stainless trim on Camaros it is hard chrome over stainless. You can end up buffing past the hard chrome and into the stainless. It will have a yellowish tint to the stainless where its more of a blue chrome finish.. If that makes sense. Ill post pics later on if you want to see how mine turned out after I worked dents out and polished them out.

cook_dw 09-21-2016 01:14 AM

Re: POLISHING SCRATCHES OUT OF STAINLESS TRIM
 
Before:

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...0-dsc03286.jpg


After:

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...1-dsc03287.jpg

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...3-dsc03502.jpg

ZLP955 09-21-2016 02:44 AM

Re: POLISHING SCRATCHES OUT OF STAINLESS TRIM
 
...and make sure you keep a real good hold of the trim while using the buffing wheel on it, can become deadly projectiles in a heartbeat.

Lynn 09-21-2016 03:34 AM

Re: POLISHING SCRATCHES OUT OF STAINLESS TRIM
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ZLP955</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...and make sure you keep a real good hold of the trim while using the buffing wheel on it, can become deadly projectiles in a heartbeat. </div></div>

Or suck your hand right under the wheel.


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