how polished should the stainless trim be?

[sean68charger]

I have just got a profesional metal polishing kit and i am restoring the stainless/aluminium brightwork/trim on my charger, anyway with playing and patience i can get a mirror finish to the parts, but i am not sure what the finish on the trim should be- highly polished-mirror like or just shiny and bright, i am not after a show winning car, just original spec. hwat do you all think?

[haueter66]

where did you get your kit?  just curious

[nh_mopar_fan]

I'd like to know as well....

[sean68charger]

from a place called perfect polishing  over here in the u.k. the kit is designed for motorbike restoration, 6 mops and 6 different grades of polish for alu, brass, stainless, chrome etc
if you want to import a kit let me know and i will get the phone no for you.

[ChargerBill]

I've never seen a judge take off points for "stainless too shiney"...LOL

Mirror like...as shiney as it will get.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Make sure to heed the warnings on the bench grinder & use leather gloves.

A piece of SS trim shooting out of your hands at 300mph can be lethal.   Oh yeah, it gets hot as well

[cudaken]

 Try to make it look like chrome.

Hum, can kill some one if it flys out of my hand? Hee Sue, come hear I need some help


                                 Cuda Ken

[4402tuff4u]

Becareful with the stainless steel trim. Dont get too hot. If you see it getting a blueish tint, it's all over and it's ruined.  Let the buffer do the work. No need for hard pressure.

[moparguy01]

remember that when you use a buffer wheel, there are 2 processes. the cutting and the coloring process. cutting you pull the trim away from the direction the wheel is spinning and coloring you go the direction the wheel is going.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

www.caswellplating.com has a great tutorial

[bull]

Might as well make it as bright as it will get. It will get dull soon enough.

[Mfr426]

Hey CudaKen, my wife is Sue too...she laughed at your post (yet only briefly)...

Mike

[cudaken]

 Mfr426, been with my Sue sense I was 17, so that is 32 years now, same time I have owned my 68 Road Runner. After 32 year's, well I still love my Road Runner. It only takes my money when I want it to have it.

                       Cuda Ken

[Charger4404spd]

Make sure to heed the warnings on the bench grinder & use leather gloves.

A piece of SS trim shooting out of your hands at 300mph can be lethal.   Oh yeah, it gets hot as well

  Lets see, I believe when I was polishing my trim, the trim went flying through the air oh.....a couple hundred times. Every tool I had on the pegboard was scattered all over the garage

[Mfr426]

CudaKen, I've been with mine for 10. Oddly that's the same amount of time I've had the 69. I still love them both believe it or not, the Charger costs far more than Sue too!

Mike

[bull]

I believe they reporoduce the stuff too. At least they do for '68s: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/68-DODGE-CHARGER-GRILL-MOLDING-TRIM-1968-R-T_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ34204QQitemZ4595251933QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW