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Performance and CustomizingShare your tips and tricks on customizing your sportbike. From windscreens, footpegs, undertails, flushmounts, paint, exhausts, and tires.
im polishing my rims but the paint stripper im using is not strong enough i need way stronger i was told i need aircraft striper, where can i find it?
i did a small portion and it looks great already but i can see there are very fine lines.will sanding with very fine grit sandpaper or steel wool remove this?doesint have to be mirror shine, im happy with what i have now but if the lines were gone that would be great.or will mothers polish be enough to remove this or will just make it not visible.thanxs.
Last edited by R6Rupture : 11-19-2007 at 04:17 AM.
Any painters supply will have the aircraft stripper.
Let it sit on the paint until it starts to bubble up then use a scotchbrite pad to rub the stripper and paint off.
The fine lines will need to be sanded away. Any polishing done will just enhance the lines. I've used a buffing compound on a die grinder to polish an old bikes rims to near chrome. You definately don't want to do it by hand.
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They make both wire wheels and polishing pads that go on the end of a drill....
That's going to be your best bet. Any paint shop should be able to set you up with something that will work nicely.
Oh- and taking them off the bike and removing the rotors will make it go a LOT faster. I would say to even remove the tires, but that's probably not an option for you.
On a side note- yuck. Polished wheels? Really?
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Haha, if you don't clean the chrome religiously, you'll get the matte look very quickly...
Not really. I did the rims on my last bike. They were polished to a chrome like appearance and ridden for 5 years before I sold the bike. Only thing I ever did was wash with soap and water and they looked just as good as when I first did them.
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If you want an absolute mirror finish, after you've hit it with varying degrees of sandpaper, use diamond paste. You can order it online, an no it's not very cheap. It is, however, the best way to get a true mirror finish. Diamond paste is used on aluminum blocks to produce a perfect mirror finish for use in high powered lasers because a standard mirror would be destroyed.
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