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68magOwner
07-06-2003, 09:44 PM
i Am poloshing my mags stock rail, and am currently on P400 grit paper (dont know if P means anything, but its on there) and its looking preety smooth and shiny, but i want to know if im up to par with smooth/shiny-ness with everyone else, so please let me know what grit sand paper you used

billybob_81067
07-06-2003, 11:13 PM
If you want super-uber shinyness like chrome then go on up to 600 grit paper, and then 00 steel wool, and then get some mother's aluminum polish at the local Wal-Mart and polish it with that goop on an old washcloth. It will be so bright it'll hurt your eyes! :p

:D:D:D

68magOwner
07-07-2003, 04:00 PM
hee hee, and i thought that i was ready for the polish, bah! here comes the 600 grit :D , heh, now ive decided (and started) not only my rai, but my foregrip as well :D

jman44
07-10-2003, 10:48 AM
i would go 600, then 1000, then 1500 if you can get it. the higher you go, the shinier it gets, its all up to you. i polished my classic's body w/ 300, 600, and 1500. 4 sheets of each kind of grit, adn it came out looking liek beautiful chrome after a lil stainless steel polish.

laxkid
07-11-2003, 08:56 PM
I went 400 600 1000 1500 and it is as shiny as the chrome bodys

goat
07-24-2003, 07:22 PM
I agree, go as high as you can with the sandpaper BUT...then go get some "jewlers Rouge" and a buffing wheel.
Yowza!!!

BajaBoy
07-24-2003, 11:07 PM
yea go up higher then 600.. i think 1000 is fine and then just buff/polish it out

ICOM
07-30-2003, 12:59 AM
Theres this special snad paper thats for cars... You wet it and then sand away... Its very fine.

personman
07-30-2003, 01:08 AM
Yea I have some 2000 grit I got at pep boys and that works pretty well.

ZSigErik
07-30-2003, 02:57 AM
Can we see pics of these polished guns fellas, cmon!

I used like 200 or so on mine, to give it a different feel so it blended well with the valve and had a, well, different look to it.