Forumite who polishes cranksets and parts

[Joachim]

I'm looking for the Forumite who polishes cranksets (and other parts). I have a 7800 crankset that's in need of a buff and polish. Please PM me. Thanks.

[Ozrider]

It is really easy, use wet and dry sandpaper and gently remove clear coat. I used metal polish and polished mine by hand. Did it in about 2 hours.
Here's a picture with Stronglight chain rings

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[Joachim]

I don't need the mirror polish, mainly buffing to remove scratches and I've seen the work of the forumite. We spoke via pm before but I deleted that PM. Please contact me if you read this.

[buldogge]

I'm guessing you're referring to Casey/thirdgenbird.

-Mark in St. Louis

[Louis]

Unless you plan on continuously re-polishing, is it correct that you can't just polish / buff out the rough stuff and leave it at that?

Won't AL quickly corrode to a dull finish, so you have to reapply a clear coat (or prepare for a lifetime of maintenance)?

[Joachim]

If it does require life long maintenance, then I might be better off getting a new(ish) left 7800 crank arm :). Please pm if someone has one in 172.5mm.

[Louis]

I may be wrong. You'll need to check that with someone who has first-hand experience.

[kramnnim]

I don't think it requires a whole lot of attention, especially if you apply some sort of protective coating. A lot of the polished alloy parts from the 80s-90s were not anodized...

[thirdgenbird]

I forgot to answer this in my reply to you. Polished aluminum typically doesn't take much maintenance. The maintenance is easy too. I wouldn't worry about it in the slightest.

[R3awak3n]

What I do is, I hit it with Simichrome once in a while and its back to new.

Polishing is fun and pretty easy but time consuming.

My latest is a pair of cannondale hollowgram cranks

http://www.pedalroom.com/p/spooky-havocstaff-13331_9.jpg

I have done a bunch of campy chrome hubs and seatposts, always turn out well.

[54ny77]

clear coat/anodization comes off lickety split if you spray easy-off oven cleaner all over the place and let it sit for 15-20 min. it almost wipes right off (a scrub brush or wire brush will work just fine). i just did it to a crank set the other weekend. next step is wet sand, then polish.

r3 that looks awesome.

[one60]

these instructions from Fyxo are similar to how I've done it. Jestco's a source of de-anodizing agent (likely caustic soda) as well as detailed info on polishing.

As others have stated, there's no need to anodize or clear coat it. If you scratch it again, you can simply polish the damaged area (w/o the need to remove whatever protective coating you used)

Polished aluminum doesn't loose its shine too quickly & can be brought back to brilliant with out much effort. I like to use Mother's billet polish for the final buffing.

http://fyxo.co/reports/diy-strip-polish-alloy-components/#1

[54ny77]

http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=172853

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