How Do You Polish A Mag

[andymac]

ok i was wondering how you would polish a mag to a chrome finish without sending it to a pro shop

[ZCute]

yeah i would like to know this too.

[andymac]

yeah because i have heard of people doing it themselves... with like sandpaper or something but it takes a long time

[s.centralpirate]

Whoaaaa buddy sanding is anti-polish. go to your local auto parts store or hardware store and get some buffing pads and buffing compound in the car care section. strip your gun down into peices and rub away!

If you have a bench grinder you can get buffing wheels for them which would take alot of the hand work out of buffing your gun.

[andymac]

im talking about taking the regular mag and polishing it to a chrome

[NJPaint]

use the damn search function

we've covered this 100s of times

[NJPaint]

fine, I'll be nice:

http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43671&highlight=Polishing+body

http://www.docsmachine.com/galleries/polishsteps.jpg

[andymac]

thanks nj but what did you buff with

[spacedtedybear]

Damnit NJPaint, you beat me to it. :)

Personally, I went the extra step and went to 2000 grit. Don't know whether that helped but eh.

[NJPaint]

Originally posted by andymac
thanks nj but what did you buff with

I went rummaging through my mom's polishing cabinate, i'll try to find what it was.

Oh and spaceddedybear, I only went to 1000, but I used two differnt kinds of steel wool after that. Those really made a difference, probobly similar to your 2000 grit.

[andymac]

alright thanks... just lmk when you found out what all you used and the steps would be very helpful... thanks man i appreciate it alot

[Nomad]

Just wondering, could you use a dremel with the buffing head instead of the bench grinder with buffing wheel??

[Paintchucker]

dremel works fine for final steps, but takes forever and a day... Also, it is hard to get in around the powerfeed tube, even with the little cable extender for the dremel.

[andymac]

does anyone have all of the steps.... do you have to go fro mthe 320 grit all the way to the 1000 grit... i have access to a dremel with extender i jsut need to know... dont wanna screw up my mag thanks

[Demobilized]

Did you even read the thread he linked you too? That thread has everything that you need.

[andymac]

yesi followed the link but that site is pretty complicated i couldt find any information... i didnt know where to look for an article or anything... so if anyone else has any information