Can anyone recomend a GOOD chrome polish and maybe technique I've got bumpers with good chrome but need to polish out 35 years worth of superfine (not deep) scratches Brasso's fine but I need better.

I use Autosol

Yeah go for Autosol. Plus it's made in Germany!

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Have you considered buying a drill mounted polishing wheel and some polishing compound? It will cost more than a tube of Autosol, but it will be alot quicker and give better results.

No I hadn't as the last time I tried that on some alloy parts the compound was like rock and wouldn't apply to the wheel proprerly and I couldn't get any kind of a result attall , cost me a few buck for nada . Hand polished in the end took ages but worked.
I know buffin works but I just couldn't get how-- and I'm pretty handy with most of that kind of save work shit--I might give it another go --not optiistic though , some other kind of compound or buffing wheel perhaps.
I currently live in Ipswich and it can --I have found--be quite dangerous to buy something when you're not 100% sure of what you're wanting , they'll sell you shit as soon as look at you.
Any advice on wheel types and compounds ?

I have a polishing wheel on a bench grinder. Works a treat. I've done alloy, stainless and chrome all with excellent results. Admittedly I have never tried a drill mounted one, I just figured trying to do a bumper with a bench polisher would be kind of awkward

There are a number of different grades of compounds and type of wheels. The compounds all require different amounts of heat to get them to soften and work properly. I would suggest a loose calico buff as they are the softest, along with a compound suitable for aluminium as they soften at the lowest temperatures, they also give the finest finish. I also find them the easiest to work with. You have to match the buff to the polishing compound to the material to be polished. Wrong combo and you will have the problems you have had previously. The brand I use is Josco. Their packaging gives a fairly good guide as to what combinations of buff/coumpound/material works best.

With reference to your earlier attempts. The harder polishing compounds don't work well on aluminium as they require alot of heat to melt. You will need to push the compound against the wheel hard enough to get it to melt. The compound for aluminium is relatively soft (the one I use is white in colour). It sounds like you may have bought a hard coupound, which I generally find a bit more difficult to use.

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Originally posted by BASHOdi ---now how many millenium did those take bizarre ??? he he he I'm gettin on in years and I like to think I have a reasonable chance of finishing what I start before I kark it.

i also hear Bowdens Own have a good metal polish. available from autobahn or the website http://www.bowdensown.com.au 

there is also a tin you can buy in Kmart with cotton soaked in somethign inside, yellow tin that looks 30 years old but is fairly cheap and works a treat.

Thanks guys,
I'm gonna stick with the solvol first and see how I go , if that don't work I'll look at the buffing--the front's ok it's the overiders and rails at the back that are needy the back blade just plain needs a replate so if I go there I'll boofem while they're off and the blade is being redone,
Thanks again,
Al .

i also :thumb autosol but another good one i've used which is similar is eagle one chrome polish
i had a set of hotwires on a bug i bought that probably hadnt been polished since they were put on in the 70s and both these products give thema mirror finish

-Joel

I use autosol, but will try bowdens soon.

have used mothers and other ones like that, and always seem to go back to autosol..... but would like teh bowdens to work properly so iam using a semi aust product.

That yellow tin that looks 30 years old is Brite Shine.. I bought a tin over two years ago and i'm still using it.. and i polish the chrome on my car every few weeks..