I am replacing my cracked up steering wheel soon. But wondered if any one had a trick for getting the original horn button I have polished back up with out causing damage. It has some dullish light pitting to the outer chrome surface area. Also I have some other original chrome items wanted to bring to life. I had tried some simple chrome metal polish but that did not seem to work. Thanks in advance for the help as usual .
I am not sure. I thought steel wool would scratch the surface. Trying to keep the original one it looks in Great shape other then dull.
When I was a kid, I had a 52 chevy 2door hardtop. I remember getting that dash chrome looking good as new with S.O.S. pads followed by chrome polish. There must be some kind of sumthinsumthin in that "soap" that they put in those pads that helps potect from the fine scratches steelwool can cause. Let the polish set for a day or so before wiping it off. (I did this about three times on the same area.) The pitted chrome areas, well- not much will help that, but the rest was blinding!
Steve, we used to buff chrome and stainless with a buffing wheel attached to the bench grinder. We used jeweler's rogue as a buffing agent. Once we get the desired shine, then we'd following with chrome polish by hand. One word of caution though, keep the part moving as you buff otherwise you'll burn the metal, esp. stainless.
Polish Kit Ken is right, too long and it will burn. You need to polish with a course substance to remove scratches and minor flaws, then follow up with a fine substance for that high shine. Then hand rub and it will look like a mirror. LMC for one sells a kit and it has worked wonders on my stainless and chrome. The number is 38-1230 for 29.95 on page 23 of catalogue #43 TB'sD
shaft Meant to mention... when and if you put a buffing pad on your bench grinder. wrap the ends of the shaft with lots of duck tape or something of the sort. This high speed shaft with exposed threads does wonders on chrome and stainless also, but you won't like the end result unless you like your chrome textured. I guess I should say this for all the new comers of which I am glad have come our way... TB'sD stands for The Boops Dad. The Boop is my 16 year old daughter. My actural name is Robin, yep, no funny stuff guys, my mom just liked the bird - Robin, guess I reminded her of one or something. I'm not ashamed of my name, but, I'm much prouder of being the BOOPS dad. TB'sD
Robin, Must have had it's moments growing up. Any way I will stick to the Boopster. Thanks for the information. Looked at Eastwoods catalog they have a few items for polishing. Any one had any luck with there stuff ? Look's pretty good and not a lot of $$ to boot.
Steve, we've used Eastwood for years and not had problems. They've got a pretty informative website www.eastwoodco.com with a forum that talks about a lot of different things including polishing metals.
Thanks Ken I just took a look at the site Has a lot of good information. You guy's are the best. I will just take my time and learn. Have a few practice pieces to play with first so nothing important get's hurt
