I made myself a stainless steel turbo heatshield, but what is the best way to get it shining like a mirror?? There are minor scratches from removing some welding stuff and so.

I hope somebody can give me a few good tips to get it right!

 

Very nice that m8

Sorry can't help you about the polishing

Could make some £££££££ makin and selling them m8

 

Looking really good m8, just for interest, how much would you ask for one, IF you would make more of them?

Maybe a bit of a stupid question, but how do you mount it?

 

It's not finished yet, mounting holes will be the same as for the saph 4x4.

Thanks for the nice replies, but for this moment I don't think I will make another one.

 

to polish it mate, get a polishing mop that attaches to a drill, i use a medium grade mop to startn with......smere autosol over the heatshield and start polishing, you will see the results almost immediately.......to finish off, i use a fine mop with Peek metal polish and polish with the drill again....................it just takes patience and it will look bling

 

Very tidy work mate

 

Well, what do you think after 8 hours of polishing ??? ()




I know it's not up to concours bling yet, but good enough for me!

Cheers,
YBJ

 

looks excellent for a DIY! you could make a killing!!

 

Nice

Get me one in the post!!!!!!

 

looks really good mate

 

Damn.. looking really good.

At the moment I'm trying to polish some parts (lifting eyes, pipes, brackets) to,
but it doesn't even look a little bit like your heatshield.

Do you have any hints/tips?

What I do now is start with paper p150, then p400, then p600, then polishing paste.

 

Well, I did asked the same question and this is how it went:

DON'T SANDPAPER like some told me to, you hardly can get it out any more like I found out... !!

JUST POLISH, POLISH, POLISH !!!

Stainless steel is very hard and it takes hours.....with a machine! By hand I think by the time you'll finish it will be your 90-st anniversary!!

The advised 'Autosol' gives only deep brilliance, but doesn't polish any scratches away. Therefor I used 'Belgom Alu', this give a 90 % finishing result. The rest will come from long-term polishing by hand with 'Autosol'.

Good luck m8!

 

That's quite a hint

So what you're saying is throw away all paper.
And only polish till your hand falls off with paste and a machine?

That's quite some work, but hopefully the machine will help me

 

that is very

 

you want to use micromesh, i have grades from 2500 to 8000



Top job too

 

So can old alloy tanks be re-polished doing this?

 

yes they can, come up like new

 

i wont be around for the next 3 weeks then the state mine are in