Ultradog MN
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Jun 14, 2020
I'm working on cleaning up and painting an older machine.
It has a couple of cast aluminum belt guards on it - or some admixture of aluminum.
They were painted at the factory.
I was thinking about chemically removing the paint off of them and then polishing them.
It doesn't look like they were sand cast..
Too smooth a surface for that.
After stripping them, I could spend some time with a wire wheel in the pedistal grinder and then using a cloth buffing wheel to give them a shine.
Guess I should use some buffing compound too?
What kind of coumpound would I want and where to buy it. Also, what grit or grits would I want?
Lastly, is there a clear lacquer I could spray them with to keep the shine?
Now because you're all Practical Machinists, you're probably thinking what the hell do you want to do all that useless work for anyway.
Well, because it might be fun to add some bling to the new paint I'm putting on the rest of the machine and because, I'm fat, dumb and happy and can.
It has a couple of cast aluminum belt guards on it - or some admixture of aluminum.
They were painted at the factory.
I was thinking about chemically removing the paint off of them and then polishing them.
It doesn't look like they were sand cast..
Too smooth a surface for that.
After stripping them, I could spend some time with a wire wheel in the pedistal grinder and then using a cloth buffing wheel to give them a shine.
Guess I should use some buffing compound too?
What kind of coumpound would I want and where to buy it. Also, what grit or grits would I want?
Lastly, is there a clear lacquer I could spray them with to keep the shine?
Now because you're all Practical Machinists, you're probably thinking what the hell do you want to do all that useless work for anyway.
Well, because it might be fun to add some bling to the new paint I'm putting on the rest of the machine and because, I'm fat, dumb and happy and can.
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