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Polishing Sabers

Started by Bob Kielar, October 20, 2018, 10:23:25 AM

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Bob Kielar

Bought some Sabers any tips on polishing them such as brand of polish and technique would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bob Kielar
Keep Cruzin
1955 Cadillac Fleetwood

D.Yaros

I bought one of those foam cones that mounts in a drill bit to remove applied polish.  I see no reason why a separate foam cone bit could not be used to apply the wax?
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Mike Josephic CLC #3877

With Sabers, your dealing with chrome plating over
aluminum.  You don't state what condition they are
in, but if they have started to pit and the chrome
has pealed off in spots, there is really no amount
of polishing that you can do that will help.

Polishing them with an abrasive chrome cleaner
(like Mothers or similar) will not help but only
make matters worse.

Sabers in good condition need only to be washed
and waxed.  This you can do by hand and using
a good detail brush to help between the spokes.

Mike
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Bob Kielar

Here are the tools I used to polish the Sabers. The power cone from Mothers was a big help also the dremel tool with a brass wire brush for all the crevices. It took a couple of hours per wheel hopefully you can see the difference between two.

Regards,

Bob Kielar
Keep Cruzin
1955 Cadillac Fleetwood

papas52cad

Good for you Bob... nice work and worth effort when you can see the difference !!
1952 Fleetwood