How do carb restorers clean the outside of the carb?

if you check out my duster restoration thread ( link below in my signature ) , I had a pretty nasty looking (inside and out ) 600 cfm eddy carb that came off a mud truck and was badly tarnished and was oxidized and corroding and the inside was filled with a few OZ. of sand lol.

I went through the carb and rebuilt it and while I was at it I cleaned it up and it came out GREAT.

pretty much what I did was soaked it over night in a tub of laquer thinner.....the next day I got out my dremmel tool and put a few variations of small wire brush bit on it and wheeled all the crud off the carb.

then I would spray it down with carb cleaner and then wipe it clean with a rag.

after I did this a few times to where it was down to clean aluminum I took out another variation of dremmel bit (rubberized light grit sanding/polishing bits ) and I went around the hole carb a few times until it all had a fairly uniform dull sheen to it.

I think got out a variation of dremmel polishing buffing bits (buffing wheels and balls and so on) and I started with the polishing compund included in the dremmel polishing kit as it is a bit more abbrasive and I went over the hole carb....I would then spray it with carb cleaner and wipe it off.

then I would do the same step but instead of the included polishing compound I switched to 3M rubbing compound used for paint and headlight lens restoration......I then sprayed with carb cleaner and wiped off again.

then as a final step I hand rubbed the carb down with mothers aluminum polish and wiped it off and was done!

came out looking like new!

since I soaked it in the laquer bath it washed away the original edelbrock logo on the carb ....but I had an edelbrock catalog that included free eddy stickers so I trimmed a sticker up and put it on the carb and it looked factory lol.

I then took a gold paint marker and repainted the adjustment screws and and some other odds and ends.

if you have any questions just ask....its a few hour process and take a bit of patience and attention to detail but the end result is I had a brand new carb that I got for free for the price of a few dollars.

rebuild kit was $60.00, jets were $12.00, mothers polish was $3.00, rubbing compound was $4.00, polishing kit was $12.00 and laquer thinner and carb cleaner can be got cheap too.....if your just looking at cleaning it up and not talking about a rebuild than you can do it for pretty cheap!....check out my thread for pics