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I posted a couple months ago, that I had stripped and polished my grab bar. Nothing new there on this board.
However, I repainted it a royal blue, because I was unhappy with the lack of luster in the polish. Well, I stumbled upon something yesterday, so I stripped the blue paint off with Laquer thinner and a sponge, and proceeded to repolish it. Anyone looking to do this might have already seen the many (and highly exceptional) posts detailing how to do it. I wanted to add one thing to the list of "how to's" in this instructional period. Harbor Freight Tools has a kittle kit on sale for about 5 bucks, comes with three sequentially sized buffing wheels, and two little blocks of "rouge." I HIGHLY suggest using this kit. DO NOT use the red rouge! Use the white block. I rubbed the white block directly onto the surface of the aluminum. I saw immediate results. It left a lot of "swirl" marks, but you can see the effect instantly, beneath the block residue. I used one buffing wheel (on my cordless drill) to remove some of the swirl, then went over it all again, in the same block to aluminum fashion. Used the second wheel just like the first. Finally, I applied Turtle Wax aluminum polish with a micro fiber towel, and rubbed two coats if it into the bar. Then I used the last buffing wheel to remove the turtle wax compund, and it took off ALL the swirl marks from both compound, and white rouge block. Awesome results! I will be doing this a few more times to the bar, over the winter. But even after one cycle, I can hold my hand over the bar, and see details of my fingers in it's surface.
Good luck with your mod!!
However, I repainted it a royal blue, because I was unhappy with the lack of luster in the polish. Well, I stumbled upon something yesterday, so I stripped the blue paint off with Laquer thinner and a sponge, and proceeded to repolish it. Anyone looking to do this might have already seen the many (and highly exceptional) posts detailing how to do it. I wanted to add one thing to the list of "how to's" in this instructional period. Harbor Freight Tools has a kittle kit on sale for about 5 bucks, comes with three sequentially sized buffing wheels, and two little blocks of "rouge." I HIGHLY suggest using this kit. DO NOT use the red rouge! Use the white block. I rubbed the white block directly onto the surface of the aluminum. I saw immediate results. It left a lot of "swirl" marks, but you can see the effect instantly, beneath the block residue. I used one buffing wheel (on my cordless drill) to remove some of the swirl, then went over it all again, in the same block to aluminum fashion. Used the second wheel just like the first. Finally, I applied Turtle Wax aluminum polish with a micro fiber towel, and rubbed two coats if it into the bar. Then I used the last buffing wheel to remove the turtle wax compund, and it took off ALL the swirl marks from both compound, and white rouge block. Awesome results! I will be doing this a few more times to the bar, over the winter. But even after one cycle, I can hold my hand over the bar, and see details of my fingers in it's surface.
Good luck with your mod!!
but thanks for the tool heads up
so many roads so little time 
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