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Car Forum / Australian Car Forums / General Car Topics (Australian group) / October 2006Yay! Brasso
OK, shameless product plug for Brasso polish, however I'm impressed. Can't remember using it before. Athol or someone suggested I try it to remove scratches from a CD-R, and that is when I think I bought it. Have a Sep 1983 chrome wheel rim on 'lux according to it's date stamp (I've put around 200,000 km on it and have had since early 1990s - god knows how many km it had on it before I got it) that had a coating of rust right around the inner rim. I thought, "well that looks well and truely unfixably fscked", however remembered I had a can of it, so deciced to try it. It now looks like new, with rust spots removed and you just about need to wear sunnies to look at it in the sun. I've tried other automotive chrome type polishes in the past, however this stuff is the ducks guts. > Can't remember using it before. Athol or someone suggested > I try it to remove scratches from a CD-R, and that is when I > think I bought it. Yep. A regular bottle of brasso costs less than a tiny quantity of the best other specific CD scratch buffing stuff. For about 100 times the quantity. IIRC, it scored equal first against the best other stuff. Used several times including on severely scratched data CDs. Has worked every time.  SignatureAthol <http://cust.idl.com.au/athol> Linux Registered User # 254000 I'm a Libran Engineer. I don't argue, I discuss. > Used several times including on severely scratched data CDs. Has > worked every time. Have since discovered both CD players concerned had issues, so luckily no disaster. Works real good on 1983 wheel rims though: http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8940/rimot1.jpg >> Used several times including on severely scratched data CDs. Has >> worked every time. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8940/rimot1.jpg That's very bling Pat. :) SignatureBen Lyric of the week: "So all you fly mothers, get on out there and dance. Dance I said!" > >> Used several times including on severely scratched data CDs. Has > >> worked every time. > > Have since discovered both CD players concerned had issues, so > > luckily no disaster. > > Works real good on 1983 wheel rims though: > > http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8940/rimot1.jpg > That's very bling Pat. :) That's what I thought too (I cleaned the front end of vehicle just for the photo to :-) ) - the usual state of affairs due to fecking water restrictions is: http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2135/backrimuw4.jpg {The diesel stains down side of vehicle are nice touch too} That rim is a Feb 1985 model, have not cleaned it in the last year, however even in that condition looks a feckload better than the condition of the one in previous photo before application of Brasso (which had a coating of fairly thick rust in the inner rim and really looked crap to the point it was bothering me). Those rims are not rice, I can assure you. I'm left scratching various body parts how they can scrub up that well, and especially how I've given them salt environments, lack of care, beat around off road. They are all over 20 years old. I don't even know what the previous owner(s) put them through for the first 8 to 10 years of life - they came from a wreckers yard in the early 1990s Fsck painted rims, or wheel covers. Chrome where the tyre pokes out so the rim will never really see any damage - even off road - is the only way to go! can look like rice when shiny, however really ain't and the steel under it is thick enough that you would have to be doing something really silly to damage it. Brasso + 6jx16 Landcruiser 60 series rims is the only way to go for a 'lux 4x4 :-) > > > Used several times including on severely scratched data CDs. Has > > > worked every time. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > That's very bling Pat. :) Huh. Wheel Silver is much more stylish and macho. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v105/EmuBobOz/Car06007.jpg Signatureant Don't try to email me; I'm borrowing the spammer du jour's addy > Huh. Wheel Silver is much more stylish and macho. > > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v105/EmuBobOz/Car06007.jpg Ooh, nah.... Wheel silver just *screams* K-Mart :) -- Regards, Noddy. > > Huh. Wheel Silver is much more stylish and macho. > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Wheel silver just *screams* K-Mart :) Well I didn't get it from K-Mart, so there. Signatureant Don't try to email me; I'm borrowing the spammer du jour's addy >> Huh. Wheel Silver is much more stylish and macho. >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Regards, > Noddy. If your to spray (with an areosol can) get Aluminium clour, its the same almost as the standard colour and doesnt shout out LOOK I'M A CHEAP ARSE THAT WONT GET MY RIMS POWDER COASTED like Silver does. > > > Huh. Wheel Silver is much more stylish and macho. > > > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > same almost as the standard colour and doesnt shout out LOOK I'M A > CHEAP ARSE THAT WONT GET MY RIMS POWDER COASTED like Silver does. But they were silver to start with! Then it all chipped off and was an ugly dirty black underneath. Making them all bright silver would just look silly, as they were never that colour anyway. Wheel Silver is great stuff. Signatureant Don't try to email me; I'm borrowing the spammer du jour's addy >> > > Huh. Wheel Silver is much more stylish and macho. >> > > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > ugly dirty black underneath. Making them all bright silver would just look > silly, as they were never that colour anyway. Wheel Silver is great stuff. Yeah, whell silver is okay, plain ole silver is to bright and looks sh.t. I used aluminium on cars that I were selling. Same colour as origional. I powder coat these days when wheels need to be redone. At about $70 per set of five its way cheaper than 2Pakking as well. > Yeah, whell silver is okay, plain ole silver is to bright and looks > sh.t. I used aluminium on cars that I were selling. Same colour as > origional. I powder coat these days when wheels need to be redone. > At about $70 per set of five its way cheaper than 2Pakking as well. that's not bad, for 5. But you'd need to take the tyres off first I imagine. Signatureant Don't try to email me; I'm borrowing the spammer du jour's addy >> Yeah, whell silver is okay, plain ole silver is to bright and looks >> sh.t. I used aluminium on cars that I were selling. Same colour as [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > that's not bad, for 5. But you'd need to take the tyres off first I > imagine. Oh yeah, tyres off , sand blast ($40 for 5) and then powder coat. So for $110 I got a full set done last time. Finish was excellent and better than 2Pak I though. My engineer had a set done with 2pak and all up cost him $250. I thought that was a bit steep so went the powdercoat way. Colours are limited but not by a lot, there was around 20 colours available at the time. BTW The cost was $70 for as much as I could fit in the over at one time, I think that I couldve got 8 wheels in there maybe. > Oh yeah, tyres off , sand blast ($40 for 5) and then powder coat. So > for $110 I got a full set done last time. Finish was excellent and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > much as I could fit in the over at one time, I think that I couldve > got 8 wheels in there maybe. Nice. What colour did you get? Signatureant Don't try to email me; I'm borrowing the spammer du jour's addy >> Oh yeah, tyres off , sand blast ($40 for 5) and then powder coat. So >> for $110 I got a full set done last time. Finish was excellent and [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Nice. What colour did you get? Boring White. Sorry nothing exciting. >> Can't remember using it before. Athol or someone suggested >> I try it to remove scratches from a CD-R, and that is when I [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Used several times including on severely scratched data CDs. Has > worked every time. For CD repairs, I have had good results with toothpaste. Mild: regular TP and heavy duty: denture TP. TP is also good for polishing windshield (wiper) scratch marks - with a small (high speed) hand pneumatic drill/buffing/grinding machine. "the_dawggie" <the_dawggie@hotmail.com> wrote in message > I've tried other automotive chrome type polishes in the past, > however this stuff is the ducks guts. Brasso is an outstanding product, and sometimes for reasons I'm sure the manufacturers never really thought of. For example, it's available in liquid or paste form, and the liquid is one of the *best* polishes you can get for hand cutting acrylic lacquer or 2 pack paint to an uber high lustre on anything detailed, and it leaves zero scratches behind. If I'm painting anything that has to be "show quality" and it can't be machine buffed (like an engine bay or door jambs for example), then hand rubbing with Brasso on a terry towel rag gives outstanding results. It's also good on chrome, as you say, but their other product "Silvo" is better for nickel & chrome jobs. Works very well on polished aluminium too. -- Regards, Noddy. > "the_dawggie" <the_dawggie@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > Regards, > Noddy. Ever tried Mothers Alloy polish. I found it waaaay too good for teh bull bar. Bloody thing shines like a bastard in the sun. Now gotta paint the back of it matt black. Great for older non laquered rims. > Ever tried Mothers Alloy polish. I found it waaaay too good for teh bull > bar. Bloody thing shines like a bastard in the sun. Now gotta paint the > back of it matt black. No, I haven't, but their car polishes are pretty good so I might give it a go sometime. I use AutoSol for hand alloy polishing, and it's excellent. For machine polishing I use proper metal polishing buffs & soaps. -- Regards, Noddy. >> Ever tried Mothers Alloy polish. I found it waaaay too good for teh bull >> bar. Bloody thing shines like a bastard in the sun. Now gotta paint the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I use AutoSol for hand alloy polishing, and it's excellent. For machine > polishing I use proper metal polishing buffs & soaps. When I bought a set of Cragar rims they gave me a tube of Blue Magic, it works really well too. Signaturea9x5l > Ever tried Mothers Alloy polish. I found it waaaay too good for teh bull > bar. Bloody thing shines like a bastard in the sun. Now gotta paint the back > of it matt black. What about people looking at your bullbar from the front, as they drive towards you? Better paint the whole thing matt black. SignatureBen Lyric of the week: "So all you fly mothers, get on out there and dance. Dance I said!" >> Ever tried Mothers Alloy polish. I found it waaaay too good for teh >> bull bar. Bloody thing shines like a bastard in the sun. Now gotta >> paint the back of it matt black. > > What about people looking at your bullbar from the front, as they drive > towards you? Better paint the whole thing matt black. Exactly what I told Patrick ages ago. Feck other drivers Ben. :-P SignatureTake Care. ~~ Feral ( @..@) (\-- Ü--/) ((.>______<.)) ^^^ ^^^ > >> Ever tried Mothers Alloy polish. I found it waaaay too good for teh > >> bull bar. Bloody thing shines like a bastard in the sun. Now gotta [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Feck other drivers Ben. :-P I'm unsure it's the problem folk make it out to be. What about other chrome vehicle parts? > I'm unsure it's the problem folk make it out to be. What about > other chrome vehicle parts? I'm prepared to say that everyone at some stage has been blinded/distracted by reflection off shiny surfaces on cars/bikes/trucks/implements/loads etc. Everything on my vehicles is matt, because I care. :-) I don't need to shine to attract attention. SignatureTake Care. ~~ Feral ( @..@) (\-- Ü--/) ((.>______<.)) ^^^ ^^^ >Everything on my vehicles is matt, because I care. :-) >I don't need to shine to attract attention. You're just too bloody lazy to polish... Oz1...of the 3 twins. I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you. >>>> Ever tried Mothers Alloy polish. I found it waaaay too good for teh >>>> bull bar. Bloody thing shines like a bastard in the sun. Now gotta [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I'm unsure it's the problem folk make it out to be. What about > other chrome vehicle parts? Chrome checkplated ute trays and sh.t on ute trays is a real bitch to be behind when my headlights are on. SignatureBen Lyric of the week: "So all you fly mothers, get on out there and dance. Dance I said!" > What about people looking at your bullbar from the front, as they drive > towards you? Better paint the whole thing matt black. Yeah, mine's powder coated matt black. The last thing I'd want is for someone to be temporarily blinded right before I stick it through their head. I want them to see it coming :) -- Regards, Noddy. > > Ever tried Mothers Alloy polish. I found it waaaay too good for teh bull > > bar. Bloody thing shines like a bastard in the sun. Now gotta paint the back > > of it matt black. > What about people looking at your bullbar from the front, as they drive > towards you? Better paint the whole thing matt black. That is a good Q. I'm not really sure, however notice really bright reflections on road signs from it from time to time from the sun, however appear to be quite high up (higher than cars). I kinda suspect the angle of the sun or whatever to not be quite right to get the reflection into oncoming car drivers, trucks meybe yes. Drivers with aftermarket (and illegal) HID inserts, and folk with badly adjusted headlights would prolly/do give me the shites more. For me, there is a slight reflection of light from the drivers side headlamp from the back of the bar, however does not really bother me. >> Ever tried Mothers Alloy polish. I found it waaaay too good for teh bull >> bar. Bloody thing shines like a bastard in the sun. Now gotta paint the >> back of it matt black. > > What about people looking at your bullbar from the front, as they drive > towards you? Better paint the whole thing matt black. Its not an issue during the day at all, the reflection is very small but at night the halogen headlights reflect off the bar and f.cks up your night vision a tad. Problem solved now anyway. > > Ever tried Mothers Alloy polish. I found it waaaay too good for teh > > bull bar. Bloody thing shines like a bastard in the sun. Now gotta > > paint the back of it matt black. > > What about people looking at your bullbar from the front, as they > drive towards you? Better paint the whole thing matt black. Yeah, I did that. Actually it was matt black to start with but it was getting chipped and a tad rusty. So I got some Matt Black in a tin and now it looks lovely. very black. And matt. Signatureant Don't try to email me; I'm borrowing the spammer du jour's addy >> > Ever tried Mothers Alloy polish. I found it waaaay too good for teh >> > bull bar. Bloody thing shines like a bastard in the sun. Now gotta [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > getting chipped and a tad rusty. So I got some Matt Black in a tin and now > it looks lovely. very black. And matt. Yeah, if its a steel bar then stripping back to bare metal and painting with Hammerite black looks a bloody treat. > > > > Ever tried Mothers Alloy polish. I found it waaaay too good for > > > > teh bull bar. Bloody thing shines like a bastard in the sun. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Yeah, if its a steel bar then stripping back to bare metal and > painting with Hammerite black looks a bloody treat. I thought about that, you can get that in a tin too. But I just put a tarp over the front, rubbed the bullbar with the steel brush, and put on the paint. Here's vitey with his new very black bullbar: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v105/EmuBobOz/Car06004.jpg decorated with something a pig left lying around. That black paint is quite durable, no chips or anything. Although you can see what the roo did to it on the right. Signatureant Don't try to email me; I'm borrowing the spammer du jour's addy > "the_dawggie" <the_dawggie@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > It's also good on chrome, as you say, but their other product "Silvo" is > better for nickel & chrome jobs. Works very well on polished aluminium too. I've heard coke on a bit of aluminium foil is meant to be the badgers nadgers for polishing chrome. Never tried it though. Have you Noddy? Fraser > I've heard coke on a bit of aluminium foil is meant to be the badgers > nadgers for polishing chrome. Never tried it though. Have you Noddy? No, I haven't, but I have heard of it (on steel wool anyway). -- Regards, Noddy. > I've heard coke on a bit of aluminium foil is meant to be the badgers nadgers > for polishing chrome. Never tried it though. Have you Noddy? I think they tried it out on mythbusters. Can't recall the result however. SignatureJohn McKenzie tosspam@aol.com abuse@aol.com abuse@yahoo.com abuse@hotmail.com abuse@msn.com abuse@sprint.com abuse@earthlink.com fraudinfo@psinet.com sweep.day@accc.gov.au uce@ftc.gov vive le resistance - 6ohms at least admin@loopback $LOGIN@localhost $LOGNAME@localhost $USER@localhost $USER@$HOST -h1024@localhost root@mailloop.com president@whitehouse.gov vice.president@whitehouse.gov abuse@iprimus.com.au abuse@cia.gov abuse@fbi.gov abuse@asio.gov.au abuse@federalpolice.gov.au >> "the_dawggie" <the_dawggie@hotmail.com> wrote in message >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Fraser Its a bit of a Myth that one. I tried that before I forked out $20 for some Mothers products. All you need is a huge supply of rags for alloy cleaning. > OK, shameless product plug for Brasso polish, however I'm > impressed. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > I've tried other automotive chrome type polishes in the past, > however this stuff is the ducks guts. FFS don't carry on about the stuff like that and draw the Crabs. This old and almost good product has sovents in it, and will likely be banned now:-( |
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