Can I use my PC to polish aluminum?

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abbeysdad

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Anybody done metal polishing with a PC? (Or is it more rotary territory?)

I have a 17' Grumman aluminum canoe. It has an anodized finish and sat in the water in a boathouse for many years before I got it. I was able to clean it up some 'back in the day', but I'm thinking I'd really like to polish it.



Thoughts or advice?
 
I have used my PC to polish up chrome exhaust before. Came out good but the exhaust was not that bad to start with. I would think that the rotary or Cyclo would be the better tool though.
 
Yeah, you can use it for that, but I dunno how well you'll be able to spruce up the anodizing. Anodizing is hard stuff but once it starts to fail your often SOL.



One of my builder's guys used a PC to polish some stainless steel panels when they were building my shop..it was the product (and to a lesser extent the pad) that did the work, he wasn't putting pressure on the PC when he did it. I gotta admit I was pretty :eek: that he was able to do the job with a PC. It *did* take him a long, long time though. If you can polish steel with the right stuff you can do other, similar jobs.



Just goes to show what the PC and do if the job's approached in the right way but that "right way" means using the proper products. And note that I'm the guy who says he can't correct badly marred Audis with a PC ;)
 
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