Can anybody recommend a place to take Aluminum & Stainless trim pieces for polishing and small ding repair work. I have some windshield trim pieces and a set of valve covers that all need some TLC.
There is a place in St. Jacobs, Kel-care Metal Polishing 20 Albert Street 519-664-3490. I have had some engine and transmission cases ground and polished there. Not cheap but they turned out nice.
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I had found a couple of ads in Old Autos - one was Kal-Care Metal Polishing. I phoned there last week and the phone was no longer in service. I will try again this week. The other was DNR Industries in Waterloo. I went on their web site and their main business is making Funeral Coaches. At my age, I am not getting close to their shop, even if they do polishing.
Got any pics of the small dings in the stainless? I do my own polishing and for close friends, I have all the supplies here. My wife used to sell polishing supplies at bike shows. I'm no pro at it, but the pieces come out looking great. If it's not an emergency, I can give them a whirl. Is the aluminum anodized? The worst part is removing the anodizing without damaging the base mat'l.
Oh, and, the best part, no cemetery, funeral home or anything of the sort nearby.
-- Edited by Gazoo on Tuesday 23rd of October 2012 07:52:15 PM
I had found a couple of ads in Old Autos - one was Kal-Care Metal Polishing. I phoned there last week and the phone was no longer in service. I will try again this week. The other was DNR Industries in Waterloo. I went on their web site and their main business is making Funeral Coaches. At my age, I am not getting close to their shop, even if they do polishing.
Unfortunatly, Kal-Care Metal polishing's building in St. Jacobs burnt to the ground about a year ago or so. We have taken pieces there before with great results. I'll bet there was a lot of project pieces lost in that fire.
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Another look on Old Autos should reveal the lad in Pontypool who does this too, I've seen some that he did back some time ago and he did a good job.
-- Edited by Chris Stapley on Thursday 25th of October 2012 10:16:03 PM
Chris, I haven't seen any adds lately & wondering if he "packed it in" Can't think of his name But he did have a Chrysler AirFlow a few yrs. ago & haven't seen it at any local shows either!! He did nice work & wasn't Too Pricey!!!
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If you want a quick and easy spruce up, you can spray it with Alumabrite like they use on aluminum transport trailers and wheels. It's very potent stuff so precautions have to be taken. It's hydroflouric acid that you dilute. Then you just spray it on and hose it off.
If you want a quick and easy spruce up, you can spray it with Alumabrite like they use on aluminum transport trailers and wheels. It's very potent stuff so precautions have to be taken. It's hydroflouric acid that you dilute. Then you just spray it on and hose it off.
That stuff works really good!!
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Brightener will only remove the tarnish, turns all polished aluminum into a white ugly mess that in my opinion os no better than dirty aluminum. Autosol and a lambs wool buffing wheel applied with a low speed polisher is the very best. I had done hundreds of wheels and tanks on show trucks with gallons and gallons of Autosol over the coarse of my past life as a truck driver.. The brightener,if not applied correctly over an already wet surface will cause burning in the surface deep enough to ruin in a lot of cases, this if repairable is a pile of orbital sander work in various increments and trust me you don't want to be doing that!
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