Chrome bumper clean up

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RANDAL

IOWA BOY
My dad is rebuilding a basket case and i need to do the bumpers. We cant get the bumpers rechromed for 4-5 months and new or good used bumpers for it are either high priced or none existant. It is a 1961 Ford Sunliner (GALAXIE CONVERTIBLE). Looking for product that will take some light rust and the gray, brown areas on the chrome surface. Have a rotary to use and some products from Steve ar POORBOYS, andother stuff from MALCO. Ideas please. Thank You. RANDAL
 
RANDAL said:
My dad is rebuilding a basket case and i need to do the bumpers. We cant get the bumpers rechromed for 4-5 months and new or good used bumpers for it are either high priced or none existant. It is a 1961 Ford Sunliner (GALAXIE CONVERTIBLE). Looking for product that will take some light rust and the gray, brown areas on the chrome surface. Have a rotary to use and some products from Steve ar POORBOYS, andother stuff from MALCO. Ideas please. Thank You. RANDAL
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Steel wool is something that I always turn to with something like this...start with the 0000 and see how that lifts, get more aggressive if needed...then I would use some polish....you could use your rotary with some PB pro-polish, I would stick with something chemical based rather than a aggressive type of compound
 
RANDAL said:
Thanks BEEMERBOY, would have thought some others would have put some comments on here also. RANDAL
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The reason I didn't post was because my suggestion would have been 0000 steel wool and some chrome polish.
It looked like Beemerboy had pretty well said that and I'm not much for the "yeah that" or "+1" posts.

FWIW, I took a $300 motorcycle that had been pushed into a shed and ignored for 6 years and with $150 worth of tires and battery, some 0000 steel wool and Mother's Chrome Polish, a PC and some effort and changed it into a $1200 motorcycle. The 0000 steel wool and the chrome polish worked wonders on the chrome. You cant "fix" pitted chrome, but the surface rust can be removed and the overall appearance is very presentable.
I have also heard of using aluminum foil in some way, but I have no idea what to do with it. I think you can rub the foil on the damaged chrome and some of the metal from the foil is supposed to transfer to the chrome surface.:dunno:

Charles
 
CharlesW said:
I have also heard of using aluminum foil in some way, but I have no idea what to do with it. I think you can rub the foil on the damaged chrome and some of the metal from the foil is supposed to transfer to the chrome surface.:dunno:

Charles
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They tried that on the show "Myth Busters" and it DID work. It's aluminum foil and Coke. They just poured the Coke into some balled up aluminum foil and went over a chrome bumper and it actually worked better than a chrome polish. I think it has something to do with the acids in the Coke. (I don't know if Pepsi will work too :lol: ) I've never tried it, but what can it hurt.

I've pretty much used 0000 steel wool and chrome polish.

Good luck
"J"
 
Beemerboy said:
Steel wool is something that I always turn to with something like this...start with the 0000 and see how that lifts, get more aggressive if needed...then I would use some polish....you could use your rotary with some PB pro-polish, I would stick with something chemical based rather than a aggressive type of compound
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I think this combo would do well ...what products do you have?
 
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