polished covers

[slaughter]

so i decided to polish the covers on my first gen 250R since the paint was pretty faded out they came out pretty good not perfect but its a trail bike so they are going to get dinged and dirty anyway but it wasnt to hard for my first time
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[mohadib]

Looks good. How much time you got into it?

[keggs17]

how did u do that? im trying to learn how to polish mine?

[JJMF1979]

sand, sand, sand, sand, sand, buff/polish takes hours and hours, I know I have done a few peices

[dirtjunkie85]

I've done that on my three 250r's they look awesome! Another thing I did was go in and paint the honda lettering blue. Looks great though!

[slaughter]

actually only like 2 hours on each piece and almost no sanding i used a chem stripper took about 20 min to get all the old paint of and left the metal pretty nice then hit it with some steel wool and thenm started buffing with a 8 dollar set that i got from harbor freight that i hooked up to an electric drill the total cost for everything was only about 25 bux like i said its not perfect but like a fat chick when your drunk its good enough

[falloutboy]

I wet sand with progressively finer sand paper using

-if I have a cast peice that needs some tough love, I first use the DA orbital air sander with 80 grit paper. this may be a little too aggresive but it wont clog the paper up either.

-220, if its really oxidized or if I have had to use the DA sander on it. Sometimes I'll use the electric sander if there is enough surface area to save some time. the rest is by hand...
-320 gets a nice smooth, even surface, usually twice
-400, usually twice
-600, usually twice
-800, usually twice
-1500,usually twice
-2000, usually twice
-mothers and a terry cloth rag, usually twice. Really put some muscle in the 'wax off' stage. :D

This usually gets things looking close to buffed and is about as good as I can get it since I don't really have access to a buffing wheel

I've tried using scotch brite pad to start off and it leaves deep scratches I just can't seem to get rid of.