Please forgive me for not asking a MINI question, but my MINI does tow this thing. I have an old Aluminum canoe I want to shine up. Can anyone offer any suggestions... I have PC RO, if that is aggressive enough. Looking for techniques, products, etc. I already know about the elbow grease part.

YD

 

I had had great success with Prima Swirl and a white pad on metal. Yes I know it's not paint or painted metal. I have successfully removed oxidation by hand rubbing Swirl and used a random orbital. Your pad will turn black however, so expect that you won't be using it for anything else.

You will do far more work with the PC than by hand. I've also tried a variety of metal polishes. But amazingly Swirl works great on a variety of materials including paint.

Richard

 

on my aluminum bits i use metal polish, but yah, any fine paint polish would probably work just well.

metal polish leaves behind a protective coating but i suppose you can wax it too.

 

You missed your opportunity!!! HYDRO!!!

 

Yes we have some suggestions If you go with these guys materials you get something like this



Anybody owns polished MINI?

 

something motorized eases the elbow greese.

 

Go see Caswell Polishing's web site. They have the best tutorial, IMHO.

 

Look on the Eastwood web site for polishing an buffing materials: <www.eastwood.com>. The Autosol product works great IMO.

 

Check out this thread. The shiniest boat I've seen.

http://meguiarsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7241

 

I've been wondering a same thing for polishing/removing scuffs from my beltline on my Clubman. From the factory the beltline has had a few little scuffs on it. Metal polish on that too? Or swirl?

 

IMHO there's a MAJOR apples and oranges thing going on here

polishing/buffing a small hand held piece versus a canoe?????

To get a quality shine on the door pulls, valve cover and other bits of my 79 I bought a buffer motor, several 6 inch buff wheels and compounds from Eastwood. 12 work hours later the parts SHINE and the first show I attended after, I won a first . . .

How does one apply this experience to a canoe? You can't hold the canoe up to the bench buffer now can you? I'd guess a hand held buffer and plenty of buffing compound . . . you gots to scale up the approach. I'd probably try Autosol on a foam pad after a 400 grit wet sand to get of any old crud.