Polished lower sliders
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RE: Polished lower sliders
ORIGINAL: TOMMAY
Fender reinstalled with chrome allen bolts and plasti-lock chrome nuts.
Total cost about fourty bucks including supplies,beer and chrome bolts/nuts and about fours hours total including breaks for lunch and beer.
Good Luck
Tom
Fender reinstalled with chrome allen bolts and plasti-lock chrome nuts.
Total cost about fourty bucks including supplies,beer and chrome bolts/nuts and about fours hours total including breaks for lunch and beer.
Good Luck
Tom
Been 6-8 months, what's the satisfaction level now??
mud
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RE: Polished lower sliders
Mud,they actually look better now than when I first did the job.After a few months of upkeep the finish is even smoother. In fact some times I just spray a little windex on them just to get the dirt off and they shine like chrome.
Went on a little run over to Pensacola today with a group of about fourty to have lunch at Mcguires,first rest stop somebody mentioned that I had polished the sliders myself and one guy said I'd just saved myself about five hundred. That seems a little high to me but for twenty bucks and a little labor you sure can't beat it.
Good Luck
Tom
Went on a little run over to Pensacola today with a group of about fourty to have lunch at Mcguires,first rest stop somebody mentioned that I had polished the sliders myself and one guy said I'd just saved myself about five hundred. That seems a little high to me but for twenty bucks and a little labor you sure can't beat it.
Good Luck
Tom
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RE: Polished lower sliders
ORIGINAL: TOMMAY
Mud,they actually look better now than when I first did the job.After a few months of upkeep the finish is even smoother.
In fact some times I just spray a little windex on them just to get the dirt off and they shine like chrome.
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Good Luck
Tom
Mud,they actually look better now than when I first did the job.After a few months of upkeep the finish is even smoother.
In fact some times I just spray a little windex on them just to get the dirt off and they shine like chrome.
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Good Luck
Tom
Too many irons in the fire.
mud
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RE: Polished lower sliders
ORIGINAL: ktm_scott
Awesome! I'm going to try that. How long does the finish last? Do you have tore-polish often?
Awesome! I'm going to try that. How long does the finish last? Do you have tore-polish often?
Good Luck
Tom
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RE: Polished lower sliders
It looks awesome. I saw Jesse Rooke say that he just used some scotch-brite pads to polish the rocker covers on one of his last builds. They looked good.
TOMMAY, while I'm currently impressed with your forks, do you think it's possible to polish them to any more of a shine with some power tools and serious compound. I bet if the sun was shining in your photo they'd look 5 times brighter. Lousy, sun. If I do this to mine, I'm just wondering how good I can get it looking by going overboard with the fine polishing.
Beats spending the $500 for chrome ones from HD
TOMMAY, while I'm currently impressed with your forks, do you think it's possible to polish them to any more of a shine with some power tools and serious compound. I bet if the sun was shining in your photo they'd look 5 times brighter. Lousy, sun. If I do this to mine, I'm just wondering how good I can get it looking by going overboard with the fine polishing.
Beats spending the $500 for chrome ones from HD
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RE: Polished lower sliders
ORIGINAL: but Ill try 2 try
It looks awesome. I saw Jesse Rooke say that he just used some scotch-brite pads to polish the rocker covers on one of his last builds. They looked good.
TOMMAY, while I'm currently impressed with your forks, do you think it's possible to polish them to any more of a shine with some power tools and serious compound. I bet if the sun was shining in your photo they'd look 5 times brighter. Lousy, sun. If I do this to mine, I'm just wondering how good I can get it looking by going overboard with the fine polishing.
Beats spending the $500 for chrome ones from HD
It looks awesome. I saw Jesse Rooke say that he just used some scotch-brite pads to polish the rocker covers on one of his last builds. They looked good.
TOMMAY, while I'm currently impressed with your forks, do you think it's possible to polish them to any more of a shine with some power tools and serious compound. I bet if the sun was shining in your photo they'd look 5 times brighter. Lousy, sun. If I do this to mine, I'm just wondering how good I can get it looking by going overboard with the fine polishing.
Beats spending the $500 for chrome ones from HD
Good Luck
Tom
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From: The real UPstate. ‘daks!
RE: Polished lower sliders
Bumping Tommay's post to the top. I figured with the weather finally starting to get warm here, I'm going to take on this project. Thanks Tommay! Tim
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From: The Frozen Tundra
RE: Polished lower sliders
Tommay gives a good impression about how this is done but I went a little different way. I blasted off the clear paint then I took the parts to the bench and used power tools to get the job done. I have about 1 hour into the trees and lowers:
Of course, they are black now...
Of course, they are black now...
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From: Winston Salem, NC
RE: Polished lower sliders
Thanks to this thread, my tree looks a lot better. I'd been wondering why nothing seemed to work, but once I dabbed some Mothers on there, the shine returned.
I'll be taking a crack at polishing my sliders before long.
Thanks all.
I'll be taking a crack at polishing my sliders before long.
Thanks all.