Polishing the body

[Mr.Minus]

hmm, i decided wanted to do polish my body so i took it and some brown stuff, it says 150 grit, put a little piece around the body and turned it a little in all directions so its uniform, it took my about 1 minute, im not kidding!, and it already looks a little shiny...
then i read this thread and doc said its better not to use the brown stuff....so....whats wrong with it?
also i had a few pieces or sanding paper....does anyone know if the measurments of grit are reveresed in europe, i think the paper is from when i still lived in holland, and the corser it got the lower it went, the 80 was definatley coarser than the 150

so should i got through all the steps with the black sandpaper at different grits, or is it not that important?
can i use the brown stuff???
i have some really strong chroming polsih my dad uses for his harley, that he says is pretty expensive, and he just said use that directly on the body...so ? if he wrong? should i go through all those steps or is it not that important???

also...can i just grab a piece of sandpaper and twist and turn it around body? or should i really cut the little strips and sand it down stroek by stroke?

thanks anwyays

Daniel

[Mossman]

Dude, the harley polish wont do anything until you have it at like 800 grit minimum. I dont know if there's a real problem with the regular paper but wet dry works better, lasts longer, and if you wet it theres less gross dust.

No, the grit goes the same way. High grits are getting towards paper, you're not working down from paper to the real gritty stuff, then you'd just have a horribly scratched body.

You need a lower grit to get the original gray/black coat off and get the finish sorta shiny. Then you work up like doc said until it's smooth enough to use some hand polish or a buffing wheel and buffing compound.

The end

[IcantBelieveit]

yea use wet/dry and use it wet b/c the dust will will turn in to a paste like and actually polish the body while you sand. and also do't stop at 800 grit go all the way up to 2000 grit, the higher the grit the less swirls you will have and the higher luster you will have, and use each grade of paper about 5-10 minutes before switching. believe me you stuff will be looking tough if you do this. and when you are done get some good quality polish and a polish wheel and polish the crap out of it. and sit back and enjoy the ::bling::

[FutureMagOwner]

dayung this is a thread from the grave!!!

[Mr.Minus]

yea ?
thats what searches do...

[ScatterPlot]

Here I go, pulling it out of the hole again but I wanted some info on something. First off I went to Home Depot today (cause all I read the first time was polish with something low to 1000 grit) and got some of each that they had, like 60 100 150 220 or around there. Well I did a little polishing today, maybe 20-30 mins or so and I got it to look pretty good, still not near done yet though. What I was wondering was if you could use a dremel to buff it with instead of a wheel. I got some little buffing discs that said they were about 300 something, and I was wondering if I could do the rouge thing to with them, or if there was another dremel head I could get without having to use a bench grinder and all. Thanks!

[minnimag]

I dunno the answers to the last post but this is a great thread, figured i'de save it considering im about to pollish my body :) Thanks Doc!