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William Winesette (Bwinesette) (63.27.143.35)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 3:36 pm: | |
The previous owner of my 1984 Prevost tried to buff the stainless steel located at the bottom part of the bus body and has left swirl mark.
Is there a way to restore stainless to original finish?
Thank you,
Bill |
JayJay (207.30.180.33)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 17, 2001 - 1:36 am: | |
Swirl marks are the result of either too coarse of an abrasive, or running the pad "dry". Either way, you have your hands full. You need a very fine grit buffing and/or a smooth polishing compound. Check with your local auto parts house.Use high quality (read:expensive) lambs wool pads. Cloth or acrylic pads are too "hard", and may have contributed to the situation you have now.Keep your pads clean, and change them often, get some OLD clothes to buff in (no, not in the buff)since the black residue will be a mess, and may not come out in the wash. (I don't care what Tide says in their commercials!) Plan B is to pay someone else to do this nasty, messy, noisy project. HTH (a little bit?) and Cheers...JJ |
Jim Ashworth (Jimnh) (172.164.148.190)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 17, 2001 - 10:31 am: | |
Use a buffing wheel that is designed to polish using the outer edge, perpindicular to the stainless. Most truck chrome & accessory shops have lots of them along with the polishing compounds. Guaranteed no swirls because the wheel is going in a straight line. Don't polish in a dirt yard or driveway since the dust is gritty and will embed itself in the wheel and scratch. Keep the wheel moving to avoid hot spots and warping which is easier to do than you might think. And be patient, it takes a long time to get it polished.
Jim |
William Winesette (Bwinesette) (67.211.69.78)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 17, 2001 - 7:16 pm: | |
Thanks for the advise. I think I will go to plan "B".
Bill |
DrivingMissLazy (65.207.109.55)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 17, 2001 - 10:43 pm: | |
Fred Hoake has a good article on polishing stainless on his home page and has someone that will do the complete job for $300. He is in northwest Florida, but unfortunately I have lost his email address. Perhaps someone on the board will be helpful and post it for you. |
Nick Russell (152.163.206.181)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 1:22 am: | |
Fred Hobe's e-mail at North Florida Bus Conversiosn is chobe@digitalexp.com. We stopped in for a visit last winter, he's a great guy! |
John Biundo (Jbiundo) (64.175.38.170)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 2:08 am: | |
Here's a link to the article on polishing stainless:
http://users.cwnet.com/~thall/fredhobe.htm |
DrivingMissLazy (65.207.109.115)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 8:18 am: | |
Thanks guys for the help. Guess the reason I could not find it is that it is a part of Tom Halls Coach Central Online page at:
http://users.cwnet.com/~thall/
Lots of good info there.
Richard |
William Winesette (Bwinesette) (67.211.112.188)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 7:46 pm: | |
Thanks guys. Great webb site hope to meet Fred Hobe this winter. I am going for the $300 buff job.
Bill |
Lee Dove (148.78.255.43)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2001 - 12:24 am: | |
Fred is a great guy, Had him upgrade the steering on my MC7 ....Good work! I don't think he is polishing buses anymore, as the guy he had doing it quit... |
William Winesette (Bwinesette) (67.211.69.194)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2001 - 5:37 pm: | |
Have heard lots of good comments about Fred and I am looking forward to meeting him. Bad new about the bus polishing guy. Hard to make much money charging $300 for what I have heard cost as much as $2000 to have done. I have a nice warm building to work on the bus some cold winter week. |
Jayjay (207.30.180.40)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 22, 2001 - 12:50 am: | |
I think two grand is about right for a polish job, since you will have about $300.00 just in materials to do it yourself. It takes a temendous amount of labourn and skill to do a really first class job. I polished a two seat Globe Swift airplane once, and like many things in life---ONCE was enough!!! Good luck, wear a good particle mask,(MANDATORY!),have fun,and a great Holiday Season, and Cheers...JJ |
William Winesette (Bwinesette) (67.211.96.36)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 22, 2001 - 5:22 pm: | |
Jayjay,
Thanks for the feed back. I am not looking forward to this job but the guy before me did a bad job and it is starting to bother me.
Bill |
Steve Fessenden (63.27.89.103)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 23, 2001 - 9:59 am: | |
Be sure you call Fred and verify that there is no one there doing polishing. His helper offered to do mine last year. May be a new man. |