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[Z06] how do you polish your stock exhaust tips?

Old 01-23-2006, 08:51 PM
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Ive seen some that were like mirrors, how do you do it?
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I like Never-Dull magic wading,easy and quick. Red jewlers rough if your a fanatic.
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I used my dremel tool... I installed a polish wheel and used some standard metal polish... I applied the polish with my hands and worked it in with the polish wheel... got it quite wet and full of the polish... I then took an old tee shirt cut it into small strips and rapped it around the polish wheel to buff it out after doing that multiple times over an hour later I had shiny tips.... Hope that helped...
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I spend all my time on the rest of the car. Being a Marine for 12 years kinda kills the use of never-dull for home use. If you been there you know what I mean.
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I spend all my time on the rest of the car. Being a Marine for 12 years kinda kills the use of never-dull for home use. If you been there you know what I mean.
I only have vague memory before this morning, so I don't know what you mean So what do you use on exaust tips? C4 won't leave much will it?Thanks for searveing by the way.

Ric
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Originally Posted by Power Shifter
I like Never-Dull magic wading,easy and quick. Red jewlers rough if your a fanatic.
Ric

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I use Semi-chrome to bring out the initial shine, then go with Mothers Wheel polish to brighten it up.
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Motorcycle shops have a product that is used to clean and polish spokes. It's a polish impregnated cloth.
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Mother's Chrome Polish followed by whatever Zaino I have available. In the words of Billy Crystal "They looook marvelous"

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If mine are real dirty i use bug and tar remover then just take my time polishing them by hand with wax.

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Just uncovered my car and looked at ex. tips=shinny just like it came from factory--My garage queen is always spotless!! I use ziano with great results--
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I went with the never-dull (I found an old can compliments of the USN many years ago) works like a champ and that unique arouma brought back some wierd memories of me polishing brass in boot camp.
(us squids never had a lot of use for really shiney stuff after boot camp)

thanks for the TIPS...... T I P S, get it

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I used Mother's on my Ti because I already had some and it worked well after I got the gunk off from the first owner not cleaning them in 3 years. They still turn colors (blue and bronze) really fast but it's a snap to get them back to shiney with that stuff. The hardest part is trying not to get any on your rear facia.
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NeverDull wadding followed by Rejex.
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Never-dull

e-hodges: I was not a latrine queen in basic training, so I can't relate
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SOS pad if they're really dirty, followed by Mothers metal polish. Makes 'em like new.

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my polish of choice is mothers creme polish or simichrome.

i use a soft 100% cotton undershirt, apply a glob of the goop, then wrap the t-shirt around the pipe and go back and forth really fast just like a shoeshine on a nice leather shoe. works like a charm (my tips could not possibly get any shinier), and is very easy.

the tips get this royal treatment every few months. in the interim, i spray zaino gloss enhancer on there after washing. keeps 'em lookin' really good.
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Originally Posted by Monnie
Never-dull

e-hodges: I was not a latrine queen in basic training, so I can't relate
Damn, what branch were you in that had brass in the head, we a had dummy topedo in front of the barracks that had a fake brass nose on it that our CC had a strange fetish about it shinning in the northern Ill sun.
Weird

BTW, My Son called me last night from Australia, he is on a FFG heading to the persian gulf, say a prayer
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Originally Posted by e-hodges

BTW, My Son called me last night from Australia, he is on a FFG heading to the persian gulf, say a prayer
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