Metal Polishing......

[imported_Jokeman]

The front of my snowmobile trailer is diamond plate. I have tried buffing it using Britemax Easy Cut metal polish on the rotary with a wool pad. The results I got were pretty decent and the metal is now reflective and not dull. The only issue I see if that there is still a lot of grime on it. Should I spray it down with some wheel acid to eat off the grime and repolish it? Either that or I was thinking about hitting it with some Meg's super degreaser. Any ideas from guys that have done some serious metal polishing?

 

[imported_Stokdgs]

Jokeman - congrats on a beautiful job you did recently - it came out great !

I used to polish metals using appropriate buff pads or cones from the Eastwood company and an air powered grinder - the same one you would use to polish or port cylinder heads, intakes, etc..
The media Eastwood sells comes in dry sticks that you put on the pad and then take that material to the metal - results are always outstanding, but you need to use a respirator to be safe..
I dont know what you mean by grime, but if its just grease, then I guess anything from purple power to 409, etc., would remove the grease and leave you the plate to polish up
Believe that Blackfire also makes metal polish producs designed to use like
you are wanting to do..
Good luck with this, let us know how it turns out.
DanF