What I did Saturday

nitroairplane wrote:Cool but I think those are OK cub heads.

What heads?

Lol. Indra, those are drive plates. They do look like Cub heads though.

The hexagonal things in the middle of the picture.

Godsey3.0 wrote:Lol. Indra, those are drive plates. They do look like Cub heads though.

lol my bad.

Those are beauties. When my best friend died in January, he left me(if his brother doesn't toss it all) his Golden Bee and a Cox P40. I might just make my first showpiece. I'm going to fly both of them at least once though.

nitroairplane wrote:

Godsey3.0 wrote:Lol. Indra, those are drive plates. They do look like Cub heads though.

lol my bad.

DOH!!

I am ashamed to know you!!,,lol.


Very nice work Puffie, very nice indeed.

So what's your system for polishing?

jsesere wrote:So what's your system for polishing?

I know that question wasn't directed at me but, for me it depends on the severity of the corrosion.

For dull finishes I will just use elbow grease and polishing compound. For scratches or swirl marks I will use sandpaper from somewhat course to really fine 1000 grit or higher as a final sanding followed by the above.

Sometimes I will use a buffing wheel with rouge type compounds except not often as the parts are so darn small and the wheel likes to take them out of your hand and give it back to you at high speed.

Regarding "the parts are so darn small and the wheel likes to take them out of your hand and give it back to you at high speed"

I have fabricated holders screwed into the Cox bottom end so I do not wear a small part imprint on my chin or thigh any more. I have a full face shield for buffing but it got left out once too many times and too scratched up to see through for the smallish parts. (I still us it on bigger less intricate buffing)

I love my Baldor extended shaft motor and 8" wheels but if you do not pay close attention the light weight part can smack you with what seems like tones of force...

Dremel buffing wiht rouge can still fling the part a goodly distance and break things making wife go stop that in the kitchen!

My polishing method is a Dremel tool with rouge and some cheap felt bobs. The cylindrical bobs do a nice job of getting into the corners of the crankcase.

The backplate does not polish well (As I found out with the PeeWee - now what should I do? also, Should I get the anodizing on the tank redone?) so I just used a rotary wire brush.

Puffie40 wrote:My polishing method is a Dremel tool with rouge and some cheap felt bobs. The cylindrical bobs do a nice job of getting into the corners of the crankcase.

The backplate does not polish well (As I found out with the PeeWee - now what should I do? also, Should I get the anodizing on the tank redone?) so I just used a rotary wire brush.

Same here, dremel tool and cotton wheels, cylinders, ect. Heavy metal poslishing compound in heavy and then medium coarse.


A before and after of a couple Remington magazines, using the above polishing compound and dremel cotton's. The top one is right out of the package. The inside of the polished one looks the same as the outside.

What polishing compound?

microflitedude wrote:What polishing compound?

This stuff here Matt:
http://www.originalheavymetalpolish.com/metal%20polish.htm

The red and the green liquid form is what I use. I have some of the ultra fine blue, but it seems to have no effect. A fab shop guy who does alot of polishing turned me on to it. He used to use jeweler's rouge until he found the red stuff. I have used it on gun parts, commercial truck fuel tanks, hard or soft metals. I have several 1" cotton dremel wheels that are commited to one color or the other. I dribble some on the the wheel, and then pat it on the part I am polishing, carefully spin up the dremel while holding it down in a garbage can, because some of it will fling off, and then begin.