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opie22
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Posted: Sun Sep 2nd, 2007 02:41 pm |
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| Hello I am New here and just got a 12' v hull alumicraft and would like to polish the aluminum any suggestions?
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HosstheHermit
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Posted: Sun Sep 2nd, 2007 11:03 pm |
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| Don't
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opie22
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Posted: Tue Sep 4th, 2007 12:56 am |
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| Why not?
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puma732
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Posted: Tue Sep 4th, 2007 02:00 am |
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| perhaps not polishing to a shine but i was thinking that too... however, after removing my rotted transom, back of the boat had dried adhesive or caulking or something. is it safe to gently use steel wool to even out the surface? any suggestions?
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opie22
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Posted: Wed Sep 5th, 2007 12:57 am |
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| i had the same thing dry phenoseal i used a scraper and it came right off
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PAR
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Posted: Thu Sep 13th, 2007 08:09 am |
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Aluminum oxides when left exposed, which is what I suspect you're looking to remove. There are a number of polishes that will do the trick. If the area has heavy surface imperfections then they will have to be smoothed (sanded) to a fine enough grit to switch to a polish (which is micro sanding). If you want to keep it nice and shinny, after all the elbow grease, then you'll need to coat the aluminum with something. Wax is the easiest, though not long lived.
Fine steel wool or a ScotchBrite pad will knock down imperfections, but leave the surface marred (badly so). Basically, you'll need a buffer and some pads (probably lots of pads - wool and micro fiber), some cleaner and some polish. Use the buffer first to see what you've got to work with (it will be a dramatic change in the look), of course after you clean the surface well.Last edited on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 08:09 am by PAR |
Jim Cancil
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Posted: Wed Feb 6th, 2008 02:36 pm |
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It's an old post, but polishing a 'luminum boat is a fool's errand. Even if you hire illegals to do this, the time and materials may exceed the cost of the hull. Then, the time to keep it up may test your patience.
I've spend a lot of my life around airplanes and the guys with polished spinners are always carping about trying to keep them up - and that's a small item. Maybe if you had a crew to care for your racing P-51, worth a couple of $Mil, ..then polished would make - some - sense. From the looks at my local Gander Mtn.; all the new 'luminum boats are painted.
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