Polishing...

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Okay I'm bored and looking for something to do and I really don't want to take the clutch cover off to polish it right..and before I do that I wanna see how it'll come out..so, if I polished the throttle body cover up on the handle bars after sanding it down would it stay "shiny" or would it dull out/rust? Something tells me it's not made out of aluminum..:(
 
it is aluminum, but it will still dull out after 2 days because its not a polished or brushed finnish its just raw aluminum thats bean painted, now sanded and back to raw aluminum, if you want them to shine you need to get a good buffer and "mothers aluminum polish" its made for the tanks on semi trucks and it will shine road tar, your sh*t will be blingin. just find some at your local wally world or auto store, and follow the instructions.
 
I went to home depot and purchased some 80 grit and 220 grit sandpaper to sand her down..and then I got this $10 Ryobi buffin kit, just attaches to your drill and comes with a couple sticks of polish for different types of metals and sh*t..would it still dull out?
 
okay, i read over most of that stuff and I don't think 220 is something I want to leave it at..

Will sanding the paint off with 80 grit, then moving up to 220 grit and then polishing it off with a lot of time going to get the job done? Or do I need a higher grit?
 
well... he is ending with a low grit because he is buffing on a wheel with good compounds and such great method but for several years i just went from about 120 - 280 mabey a couple inbetween up to 1400 if it was something that i really liked I'd taker up to 2000 and polish it out by hand, if you'v got a pretty smooth case mabey even take the paint of with a S.O.S pad and some elbow grease rather than ruffin it up so much with the sand paper.... any way pretty much you can just go higher grits till its smooth and polish it up if its not good enuf polish again or go with some finer stuff.. just keep the strait pattern "go with the grain if ya get me" and start with just the circle that sais yamaha, the case can be pretty tricky in the corners you may just like polishing that circle in the middle it gives a nice touch and is a bit easier for starting out.. if you feel you can do rest then mabey go for it... i just did one too where I polished that circle left the yamaha and the ring around the outside black and did the rest blue to match the bike i think it looks pretty good, have several cases myself so I'v just been trying stuff,,,, I did a full polish on one, but it was by no means time efficient and i did that closer to how he's talkin, I givem a polish but try not to spend to much time on the quad parts because if you ride much you spend half of yur time polishing stuff.. on the street its not so bad but atleast my quads get dirty and dinged as fast as i can spiff them up..
 
You don't want to stop at 220 grit. Wet hand sand it to at least 600 grit and as suggested only sand in one straight line. You can get satisfactory results without a buffer, just use a metal polish after you hand sand like Mothers.
If you want easy maintenance clear coat it...PB
 
If you don't want to spend the time and you've got the cash, theres a place called precise polishing that will do it for you. I had my entire engine head, cylinder, clutch cover and center cases done by them.
 
I dont touch the aluminum until i get down to 1000 grit paper, it just makes a much nicer finish and looks like glass.....shiny glass! use a good carnuba wax to help with the oxodising(dulling) it will help