Polishing brass and other stuff.

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TJ Smith

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I am having a terrible time getting a deep polish on my guards. Brass, Nickle,or stainless. What do you folks use? please don't tell me the green bar and then the white bar I have 3 different white bars and they all scratch the surface a little different.
I had no problem with silver but it don't work with these.
Thanks ahead of time. Happy Thanksgiving EVERYONE
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TJ:confused:
 
Steel needs different polishing compounds than brass, bronze, silver, etc. For brass- I would hand-sand to 600 grit, then use tripoli, then jeweler's rouge.:)
 
Richard, I guess you mean the red sticky jeweler's rouge? I think you're right, I need to try that.

Probably not a factor here, but I cover my wheels in plastic bags religiously to ensure as best I can they don't become contaminated by coarser particles. I don't clean them as often as I should, but when I start to sense they're not polishing right I run a file or hacksaw blade against the surface to get all the old crud off.

I have pretty good luck for a final polish on soft metals with the pink compound, but maybe I'm just not picky enough. :)

Dave
 
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I like to hand sand to 1500 and then buff it with scatchless pink. If there are any sanding marks left they will show up and will need to touched up by hand again. Dont try to buff out sanding lines.
 
I hand sand to 600 then use white compound only.I may need to try and go to the pink and see what I get out of that.
I always thought that it was white then green and maybe that was what I was doing wrong when trying the green.:)
Bruce
 
I used a hand hack saw blade to "clean" my buffers. Then went to a piece of power hack saw blade, and finely to the power hack saw blade with half the teeth ground off. The courser rake renews the life of the buffing wheel. Once I saw how much it helped the buffing I use it often.
Lynn
 
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