Bicycle part polishing?
I have a crankset that I'd like to have polished. Does anyone know of a local business that will take on a project like that? I've been searching around, but I'm only finding businesses that take on wholesale projects, not one-offs.
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Permalink Reply by Michael B on -
It's pretty easy to do yourself. I use Mother's Mag & Aluminium Polish on my restorations. Stuff works wonderfully with a terry cloth rag a bit of elbow grease. It's available at most chain auto parts stores.
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Permalink Reply by Cameron 7.5 mi on -
I'll second Mother's. The only part that I haven't had it work on is some deeply pitted chrome handlebars on my Schwinn Twin.
Michael B said:It's pretty easy to do yourself. I use Mother's Mag & Aluminium Polish on my restorations. Stuff works wonderfully with a terry cloth rag a bit of elbow grease. It's available at most chain auto parts stores.
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Permalink Reply by Will on -
Well, these cranks need pretty serious buffing and polishing, but I might try wet sanding with progressively finer grits, and then using something like Mother's. Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Kelvin Mulcky on -
you'll probably need to remove the anodizing first if it's an aluminum crank by using extra strength easy off or aircraft paint remover.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Courtright on
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Silicon carbide sand paper is better (than ordinary sand paper) for use on metal if you intend to wet sand. I use SiC paper to flatten hand plane beds, for example. It also comes in fine enough grades that I think you should be happy with the result. You might want to try it on something other than your cranks to see if it will polish up to a sufficient shine.
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Permalink Reply by mark stetson on -
I did these Coda arms last winter. I sanded the anodizing off, but some folks use oven cleaner. I just used several grits of sandpaper followed by Turtle wax rubbing compound, but Simichrome is the best stuff I've used on aluminum.
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Permalink Reply by Will on
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Nice job! It looks great, I think you've convinced me to try it myself.
mark stetson said:I did these Coda arms last winter. I sanded the anodizing off, but some folks use oven cleaner. I just used several grits of sandpaper followed by Turtle wax rubbing compound, but Simichrome is the best stuff I've used on aluminum.
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Permalink Reply by mark stetson on
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These were the easiest crankarms I've done because they have no deep grooves or valleys, and the spider is seperate from the drive side arm. It's tedious work, but I did both of these in one night. The worst thing to deal with is salt corrosion. Even relatively minor looking pits take
a lot of sanding to get out. This Record crank looks OK in the picture, but after sanding it several times with little progress I gave up on making it really nice.
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Permalink Reply by kiltedcelt on
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I've had good luck with polishing aluminum bits using DuPont No. 7 Rubbing Compound, followed up by DuPont Polishing Compound. It takes a long time put can produce a very good shine.
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