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  1. #21
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    Swear by Autosol for the rough work, then finesse and mirror finish it down with Brasso.
    Works for me.
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    I polished the black chrome off the silencer on my FZR250 with autosol.
    Unintentional but results looked good and it was 'different' maybe even better.

    But I used Brasso to polish the platter of my 1980 Luxman TT.
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  3. #23
    Join Date: Apr 2014

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    can the tube be removed ? I turn wood and go from 400 grit to 12000 grit .
    If tube can be removed I would do it for you on my lathe I polish wood up then seal with ca glue.

  4. #24
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    I'm Dennis.

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    Yes probably all metal polishes have avrasives in, the question is how course they are, and my Solvol seemed in the 70s to have a course grit that one could hear abrasing.

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    Join Date: Dec 2014

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    Many years ago I worked for a (small scale) jewellery manufacturer.

    Polishing was done in a large motor-driven drum filled with 4mm wooden cubes impregnated with a mixture of beeswax and ground cuttle fish powder (as abrasive). The result was phenomenal but the process took hours ....

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