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Review: Flitz Büff Ball & Flitz Metal Polish
Polishing metal...Who knows? Not me. I don’t know anything about it...I found some solid antique copper bowls with “patina” - & as a little project tried to make them shiny.
Flitz seems to be legit for polishing uncoated metal on cars. So I did a little research & it seems there products are generally considered legit for polishing any metal...
The Flitz Büff Ball & Metal Polish:
The Büff Ball basically attaches to a drill chuck & you go to town with the polish. I recommend using a corded drill here - cuz this takes some time & you want as much RPMs as possible...
Bowl #1 (initial):
I really had no idea what I was doing here. This bowl had severe oxidation. My initial approach was to attack it by hand with P21S Polishing Soap & a scouring pad.. This worked - but was sort of a mis-step.
The reason being was the scouring pad got most of the funk off - but left some fine scratches the Metal Polish & Büff Ball couldn’t remove. I could have hit it with some fine grit sand papers - but was fairly happy with the result...
After Büff Ball And Metal Polish (and about 2 hours of work):
Bowl #2 (initial):
So, this bowl was more tarnished - but had less oxidation. This bowl was also “hammered copper” which means it has dimples/valleys in the metal. So, Polishing was more work do to this...
Anyway, I decided to clean it initially with the P21S Polishing Soap & the Scrub Daddy pad that comes with it - to avoid scratches from the scouring pad. It worked. So, after about 2 hours of polishing - I was able to get somewhat close to a mirror finish:
So, what I learned from this little project is this combo on a drill is pretty legit. I’m sure a bench grinder with a cotton buff would be faster - but most people don’t have that & you can get this kit for like $30.
What I learned from this:
1. It takes a long time to do this. Prolly would go faster with initial fine sanding if the metal is in this poor shape.
2. Don’t even think of trying this by hand. Was enough work with a machine.
3. The Büff Ball gets “gummed up” with junk just like a wool pad & looses its effectiveness...So, I cleaned it with a pad brush just like you would with a MF pad. Also, changing the drills rotational direction seemed to help.
Polishing metal...Who knows? Not me. I don’t know anything about it...I found some solid antique copper bowls with “patina” - & as a little project tried to make them shiny.
Flitz seems to be legit for polishing uncoated metal on cars. So I did a little research & it seems there products are generally considered legit for polishing any metal...
The Flitz Büff Ball & Metal Polish:
The Büff Ball basically attaches to a drill chuck & you go to town with the polish. I recommend using a corded drill here - cuz this takes some time & you want as much RPMs as possible...
Bowl #1 (initial):
I really had no idea what I was doing here. This bowl had severe oxidation. My initial approach was to attack it by hand with P21S Polishing Soap & a scouring pad.. This worked - but was sort of a mis-step.
The reason being was the scouring pad got most of the funk off - but left some fine scratches the Metal Polish & Büff Ball couldn’t remove. I could have hit it with some fine grit sand papers - but was fairly happy with the result...
After Büff Ball And Metal Polish (and about 2 hours of work):
Bowl #2 (initial):
So, this bowl was more tarnished - but had less oxidation. This bowl was also “hammered copper” which means it has dimples/valleys in the metal. So, Polishing was more work do to this...
Anyway, I decided to clean it initially with the P21S Polishing Soap & the Scrub Daddy pad that comes with it - to avoid scratches from the scouring pad. It worked. So, after about 2 hours of polishing - I was able to get somewhat close to a mirror finish:
So, what I learned from this little project is this combo on a drill is pretty legit. I’m sure a bench grinder with a cotton buff would be faster - but most people don’t have that & you can get this kit for like $30.
What I learned from this:
1. It takes a long time to do this. Prolly would go faster with initial fine sanding if the metal is in this poor shape.
2. Don’t even think of trying this by hand. Was enough work with a machine.
3. The Büff Ball gets “gummed up” with junk just like a wool pad & looses its effectiveness...So, I cleaned it with a pad brush just like you would with a MF pad. Also, changing the drills rotational direction seemed to help.
