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Wow! What a difference! What did you use? I would love to get my back fatboy wheel that shiny!
I followed advice on a thread somewhere here within the forum. Decreasing grit sandpaper 320, 400, 600, 1000 followed with a final polish with Mother's metal polish. If I wanted to REALLY do it up right, I could have used lower grit sandpaper on some heavier scratches where some knucklehead scraped off the inspection sticker. There are also some areas with casting imperfections that could be gone after with some carbide bits, but that would be a winter time project.
This didn't take a lot of time, a few hours, but I wouldn't want to tackle a solid disc having to work around all those rivet thingys and such.
I polished the lower legs on a 99 Fatboy like you I didnt go for perfection.
I started with 220, then 320, then finished it with a buffing wheel and jewelers rouge. I used the same process on the axels, rear master cylinder, swing arm pivot bolts (why would you put a cover over such a cool hex head) and a bunch of other fastener heads and nuts. Brake rotors too, they dont shine up like the aluminum, more of shiny champagne color.
I polished mine up a few years ago and then I had a friend spray them with clear Cerakote. Started at high grit sandpaper, always wet sanding, finished at 600 grit, then hit them with my polishing wheel. They are holding up okay thus far, though I am thinking of wrapping them over the winter.
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Polished the Fork Sliders. Finally!
