Buffing cloth disc / wheel cleaning?

I picked up a couple of 8" sewn cloth buffing disc/wheel and a floppy loose cloth wheel for final polishing and built a motor stand. Also have a few smaller drill arbor type. With rouge they work great on SS trim and chromed pot metal but the sewn discs get black with residue real fast and transfer the goo to clean finish.


Have less success with using the discs for aluminum trim as they get dirty immediately and leave a thick residue on the alum. (even with correct al. rouge/polish).

Any way or solution to clean the sewn discs and loose discs of the black residue ?.


Suggestions appreciated...


Thanks

 

You could get a rake, or just use a random piece of metal bar.

 

I am pretty sure that they make rakes or a tool for cleaning those and that reminds me that I need one along with moving the polisher over on the stand that the junk bench grinder is coming off.

 

I love looking like a coal miner at the end of a day
after polishing aluminum.

 

I've got a rake for mine, but I usually just pick up an old screwdriver that's laying by the buffer.
Larry T

 

A large old hole saw blade or a similiar saw blade will work but now I use a rake like the one in the picture. Be carefull, if the rake or tool you are using catches in the wheel, they really get away from you. Use the tool low on the front of the buffing wheel and use a light touch. Keep the teeth pointed slightly away from you and in the direction the wheel is turning.

If you wipe the extra compound off of the part you are buffing, while the piece is still warm from the buffing process, it comes off much easier.

John

 

I find the rake to be pretty agressive, very easy to hurt yourself if you lose focus. I use an old wide blade screwdriver that I cut a "V" notch in. Keep it at a downward angle and turn it over frequently. Works for me.

 

Church key. Can be used to open things when your done on the wheel. Keeps it shiny, too.

 

... Keeps it shiny, too.

An optimist!., , I think get the idea...

Thanks for the suggestions...
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