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Welcome to FordPinto.com, The home of the PCCA => General Help- Ask the Experts... => Topic started by: Henrius on October 13, 2016, 08:40:06 PM
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I am putting together my 1973 Runabout and my 1965 Plymouth Fury after painting. The trim is in good shape but a little dull.
I thought it was stainless but a body guy said most was aluminum by this date. My question is how to polish it to a high shine before putting it back on. A parts place sold me a cream called Formula 7 compound to hand buff the metal, but the result is less than spectacular.
Do any of you use a buffing wheel to shine trim? If so what polishing compound do you use, and applied with what sort of wheel?
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I'd like to know too. My dad told me that even brand new the aluminum was never super shiny. He was a ford dealer mechanic.
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That is correct, they never had a chrome finish, it was always a stin finish.
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I'd like to know too. My dad told me that even brand new the aluminum was never super shiny. He was a ford dealer mechanic.
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I don't know. The OEM Pinto door edge guards I just bought on E-Bay were extremely shiny.