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06-26-2009, 04:16 PM | #1 |
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Help me with cleaning and polishing
Hey Guys,
I picked these aluminum valve covers and air cleaner cover up from a guy I know.....they obviously have been sitting around awhile.....I tryed to rub a little polish on them, but I think they'll need something more....Looks like he tryed to blast the air cleaner cover.....They are also missing a few of those allen heads on one cover.... I need ideas on how I should clean these up??...Do I bead blast them? how about sand blast?...once I do that, I want to polish these up and thinking about painting the finned area chevy orange to match the block.....what do you think??....I appreciate any input!!!
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06-26-2009, 05:02 PM | #2 |
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Re: Help me with cleaning and polishing
Geoff, picked up the same ones for my sons truck sans breather. bought a polishing kit from homedepot and chucked it in my 18 volt drill, and went to work, let me see if i have any pics.
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06-26-2009, 05:14 PM | #3 |
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Re: Help me with cleaning and polishing
Also the Eastwood Company has polishing kit for just what you are working on.
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06-26-2009, 06:17 PM | #4 |
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Re: Help me with cleaning and polishing
Okay...this is a good start....
Heath, would you mind posting up those pics if you got'em....also, what the kit was called at Home Depot, and any other info that would help me....Thanks!
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06-26-2009, 06:37 PM | #5 |
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Re: Help me with cleaning and polishing
if there aren't a lot of grease stains soaked into the pores of the metal try some elephant wool. it is super easy and inexpensive. then go over it with a liquid based polish to protect it. for the broken screws, find some screws with heads that are a close match, then drill and tap the place where the screw heads went. cut the screw to a length that would make it flush with the inside of the valve cover. seal it with high temp epoxy to lock the screw in place, and your done.
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06-26-2009, 09:30 PM | #6 |
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Re: Help me with cleaning and polishing
elephant wool, may have to check into that. Geoff, it's a Ryobi brand metal polishing kit, and it was in the tool corral. I had a bench grinder with buffing pads which is ideal, but have not found it since i moved 8 years ago
i have about 30 minutes of polishing into each one thus far, and they could use some more, but 100 % better than before. make sure to remove those plastic allen inserts or you will burn em while buffing... ask me how i know they are plastic now......
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06-26-2009, 09:17 PM | #7 |
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Re: Help me with cleaning and polishing
those are plastic inserts, not screw, mine are missing a few as well....
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06-26-2009, 09:25 PM | #8 |
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Re: Help me with cleaning and polishing
I'm not sure if they still do it but Edelbrock used to send out replacement rivits for free. I got a set of those valve covers on a car I bought and called them looking to buy replacements for lost ones. They sent them to me for free. It 's worth a shot.
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06-26-2009, 09:34 PM | #9 |
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Re: Help me with cleaning and polishing
Thanks ratrod, ill give em a buzz as well.
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06-26-2009, 10:57 PM | #10 |
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Re: Help me with cleaning and polishing
Heath,
thanks for the pics and info....I saw that setup online today.....So will that work on a cordless drill??....does it come with all the polishing compound as well??..... By the way, I see Summit has packages of 10 allen head plastic screws for $3.25....BUT heck if we can get them free, I'll go that route, but if not, maybe I'll have some left over if you need some....I guess this means I need to order more stuff from Summit to make the "shipping" worth my while!!! Oh, beautimus, I googled elephant wool too....where the heck can one find that stuff??....got any details on how to use it?? Thanks for all the input!!!
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06-27-2009, 11:47 PM | #11 |
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Re: Help me with cleaning and polishing
Geoff,
I comes with the compund , I used it with my 18volt milwaukee on speed 2, seems to work good....
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06-27-2009, 11:59 PM | #12 |
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Re: Help me with cleaning and polishing
Found some elephant brand bronze wool used for polishing boat/yacht brightwork. see page 12 on the below link.
http://www.yachtemporium.com/YachtEm...aintenance.pdf
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