polishing an aluminum grill?

PanGasket said
I really wanna polsih up my truck's grill, but I am unsure on what would get the best results. I was thinking of using Brass-O, but doesn't anyone know of something that'll work awesome? I'd love to get it to its former glory. :cheers:

that is a good looking grill, but it's gonna take a bunch of work to polish it up. and yep the anodizing has to come off to shine it up nice.
1. you could take if to an anodized and have them remove it.
2. do it yourself spray it with "original yellow top" easy off oven cleaner
and repeat till the anodizing is gone can take a few times to clean off the anodizing
3. do it yourself using drain cleaner. (much faster. but CAN eat the aluminum)

then comes the sanding (choose your grits, finer= less work later ) if you have minimal scratches then go finer grits to start with. dent's and heavy gouges take more work.

then a good buffer helps but I have seen a drill do just as good of work as a buffer (take much longer but works)

knowing which number or type of polish helps too. consult a chart online to help you pick the correct level of polishing compound to use with each type of metal.

mine looked bad but ended up nice. it did take a lot of work though.
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