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Little tech note. Chrome should never be polished unless it's scruffy. It should be rinsed, washed with the cheapest soap available, toweled dry...
Tell me about it !! I just spent two days cleaning old nickel anodes that two years ago I would have got rid of. My costs for my polishes have...
I tell all my customers, More expensive than new over the counter products. Check out ebay and swap meets. When they are all exhausted, come to...
Vinegar, if it fizzez at all, magnesium.
Copper or fine Brass is much better on REALLY bad aluminum. Basically it should come off easily enough by hand. Copper can contact plate though...
Well, I try not to blatantly promote my own products, and there are a couple of equivalents out there, but if you go to my website you'll see a...
Should NEVER use steel wool on chrome. Stay away from anything that contains ammonia, acids or anhydrous, which doesn't leave much. If rusting...
Using baking soda to neutralize muriatic acid is dangerous!!! The fume is Chlorine!! Lye is much better. cheaper too, and doesn't need to be...
Nope, never read the mags. I just like a guitar that'll do it all. Couldn't buy what I wanted. For years I've wanted an AC30 with reverb. They...
I've found one of the best ways to find wild old guitarts is to look at the uncollected repairs shelf. Hofner thinlines, the occasional yamaha,...
Oh yeah, it's a long long way from a rock and roll guitar, but you can play it clean and clear as a bell, But krank it up and it's the kind of...
Gotta have hotrod guitars on the hotrod board. So far I haven't seen one. I'm gonna have to get a picture of my '82 hamer prototype. She's out...
Muriatic acid, vinegar, sodium hydroxide, sulphuric acid, nitric acid. ammonia. Almost any acid or alkali will remove zinc. Always releases a...
By the way, I make a polish that removes the gold from stainless, mucho rapido. But to be honest, I think the gold color looks cool. I'd polish...
Lotus super seven, Dutton B type, Cosworth, Still a couple of classy sports cars do it today, mainley 7 look alikes. With big trucks there's...
Hydrogen embrittlement only occurs in hardened steel. Hardened steels should be baked for 24 hours at 400 degrees f, within 1 hour of leaving the...
I've sent fabrications back because they've used hot rolled. Cold rolled is more expensive, but easy to work with. Hot rolled is normally full...
I need a bike picked up and stored in E. StLouis, Belleville area. I intend to ship it (from St Louis airport) in early january, but right now...
The reason why grinding wheels can and do explode is many of them use aluminum oxide as the core abrasive. Silicon carbide is probably the most...
I first posted a warning about mixing metals in a polishing / grinding shop a long time ago. There is no safe formula. Piles of mixed filngs,...
I'm not saying that everything they sell is useless. They are like the Harborfreight of the polishing/plating world. Some of it is cheap...
Stay away from them Deuce, unless you really know what your buying. They sell nickel anodes that have chrome in them, (Chrome is the worst...
You have a lot to learn if you think Caswells are the experts. Mike Caswell is a salesman. The best ibformation you will get from them is in...
Nope. Only time I've seen it look really consistant was on a top fuel dragster. Then everything was a nice even gold all over. I thought it...
Puzzling. The only logical explanation I can think is that it bakes onto the steel and makes a continuous carbon seal.
It will be aluminum if it is anodized. don't use pool acid. 1) it gives off chlorine gas 2) washing residue to ground with out neutralizing it...
I'd like to know more about the teory behind that. Bluing is caused by hydrocarbons and iron leaching though the chrome from excessive heat....
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