How To Polish An Alu Chassis To Get Pretty Swirl Marks?

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Re: How To Polish An Alu Chassis To Get Pretty Swirl Marks?

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Andy Le Blanc wrote:all sorts of ways to do it... but what you really have to do is clean it when your done, and seal it.
Acetone cleaned it up. Sotch Brite and alu dust makes a very fine messy dirt. What do you seal it with?
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Re: How To Polish An Alu Chassis To Get Pretty Swirl Marks?

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Clear acrylic lacquer is probably your best bet.

But don't spray it where your ground points are. :wink:
Tom

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