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How about it any way to brush or rolac pad aluminum kind of cool without polishing? Thanks John
I use a Metabo burnishing tool, keeps everything inline with the grain, you can sand with various grits, smooth with scotchbrite rolls or polish.Hollywood1 wrote:How about it any way to brush or rolac pad aluminum kind of cool without polishing? Thanks John
http://www.metabo.us/Burnishing-Machine ... 369.0.html
I weld stainless, stainless and more stainless...Food Industry, sanitary process piping, vessels, whatever is needed, I like to make stuff.
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I was thinking about doing this on my overflow tank. I have a picture under new posts on forum for overflow tank. After you look at the picture can u tell me if the machine would work well for that application. Thanks John.
I use a roloc-scotchbrite-type pad on a die grinder for a smooth satin finnish. Both on the welds and material.
Can take some photos later if interesting
Can take some photos later if interesting
Pictures from my scrap collection:
http://forum.weldingtipsandtricks.com/v ... f=9&t=5677
http://forum.weldingtipsandtricks.com/v ... f=9&t=5677
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Use an orbital finishing sander ( the type that has spring clips to hold the paper ) with scotchbrite for a quick and easy finish.
Play around with grades to suit.
Play around with grades to suit.
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Yes you can hit the welds with no damage, it will clean the entire thing out. I use the flapper style scothbrite wheel then.
I use this at work for all my stainless work, it blends everything together and can duplicate the grain, its great on flat pieces and round vessels.
At home I use to just use scothbrite pads and elbow grease, green, red, grey and the white. I've also used Borax powder hand soap and a nail brush (for your dirty hands and nails), it pulls the dirt out of the metal and smooths it all out.
I use this at work for all my stainless work, it blends everything together and can duplicate the grain, its great on flat pieces and round vessels.
At home I use to just use scothbrite pads and elbow grease, green, red, grey and the white. I've also used Borax powder hand soap and a nail brush (for your dirty hands and nails), it pulls the dirt out of the metal and smooths it all out.
I weld stainless, stainless and more stainless...Food Industry, sanitary process piping, vessels, whatever is needed, I like to make stuff.
ASME IX, AWS 17.1, D1.1
Instagram #RNHFAB
ASME IX, AWS 17.1, D1.1
Instagram #RNHFAB
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If you were closer I'd say bring it over or a sample piece and I'll do it up.
I weld stainless, stainless and more stainless...Food Industry, sanitary process piping, vessels, whatever is needed, I like to make stuff.
ASME IX, AWS 17.1, D1.1
Instagram #RNHFAB
ASME IX, AWS 17.1, D1.1
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Well i'm pretty happy with how this turned out. Used a stainless brush and then a red scotchbrite all in one direction. What do you think? Thanks Rick and everyone else. John
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I like that look, I've done that to some cold side turbo piping and custom air intakes I've done over the years.
I still haven't decided if I'm going polish the sheet metal intake I'm going to fab for my car or not
I still haven't decided if I'm going polish the sheet metal intake I'm going to fab for my car or not
I weld stainless, stainless and more stainless...Food Industry, sanitary process piping, vessels, whatever is needed, I like to make stuff.
ASME IX, AWS 17.1, D1.1
Instagram #RNHFAB
ASME IX, AWS 17.1, D1.1
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Looks nice. That is what I did to the aluminum panels that I used under the hood of my Camaro.
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Well now I just polished so it has a mixture of shine and brush. I sure aappreciate all the helpful tips.
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