Polishing tank

How hard would it be to polish this tank and rails.Also will it come up eventually to a nice shine or won’t it be worth it. :slight_smile:

removalboy:
How hard would it be to polish this tank and rails.Also will it come up eventually to a nice shine or won’t it be worth it. :slight_smile:

Do a search there’s a few really good threads on tank polishing.
My personal tip would be brillo pads, but do the search :smiley:

Done the search,do you think it would come up o.k with some peek polish and a lot of hard work :question:

i do my tank with peek first then use autoglym metal polish then it will look like glass

removalboy:
Done the search,do you think it would come up o.k with some peek polish and a lot of hard work :question:

Depends on the finish you want?
I just use brillo pads and finish off with a bit of autosol, but I’m after tidy and easy, not truck show finish

Really shiny :exclamation: :exclamation: :sunglasses: :sunglasses: :wink: :smiley:

What are brillo pads?,never heard of them.

removalboy:
What are brillo pads?,never heard of them.

Brillo Pads & Cleaning Products | Brillo Google is your friend :smiley:

You can buy Brillo Pads in any supermarket and even small shops normally sell them.

removalboy:
What are brillo pads?,never heard of them.

ask yer mam removalboy

andy best:
i do my tank with peek first then use autoglym metal polish then it will look like glass

i do the same but other way around and get the same finish :smiley:

Hit it with some Alishine, then t-cut or g3 with brillo pads, then some autosol or autoglym metal polish, peek is only good on minted tanks imo and yours are definately not minted…yet :wink: ,

farmer:

removalboy:
What are brillo pads?,never heard of them.

ask yer mam removalboy

lol

if your after the shine stainless steel look then your not really gonna get it from the tank and rails.

TONY530I:
Hit it with some Alishine, then t-cut or g3 with brillo pads, then some autosol or autoglym metal polish, peek is only good on minted tanks imo and yours are definately not minted…yet :wink: ,

Spot on,

… plus a lot of hard work & elbow grease of course. Use as much mechanical help as possible. Polishing mops on electric drills will work but a ‘proper’ polisher will work much better. Take your time & dont expect that show finish overnight. Once it’s done you also have to keep it up, especially over the winter. :smiley: :sunglasses:

I wouldn’t recommend brillo pads, bits of the metal pad get stuck in the aluminium and go rusty.
I made that mistake many years ago,the result wasn’t pretty. :blush:

Why would you want to polish it? Just means you have to keep it polished, or is it your own truck?
If not, bollox to that.

att:
Why would you want to polish it? Just means you have to keep it polished, or is it your own truck?
If not, bollox to that.

Its my dads who owns it and Reddaways.I just thought it would look better polished.

peek is a bag of ■■■, first you need to see if it has a sort of protective film over it, then start “if you want mirror shine” with wet and dry sand paper from say 400 grit up 1500~2000 grit the idea with polishing is to make all your last scratch marks into smaller scratch marks,
wet and dry this is not a 5 min job either!! then solvol it and solvol it then prob when you have the shine use the crap peek polish to finish of,
mops and drills are very good and a lot easyier to work with but again it aint a 10 min job, good look easyiest way is to get the tank wrapped in stainlees sheet buy a good fabrication company its a lot easyier and better

So if i sand paper it :confused: then t-cut it,then autosole it,then peek it,that should do the trick :question: :smiley: