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Frame and Swing Arm Polishing

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Anyone polished their frame and or swing arms?

Please post some piccies and let me know what you used to polish it.

My frame has some water marks under the lacquer that I need to get rid off and my swing arm is scratched to buggery and needs a couple of deep scratches removing and a good buff up.

All responses welcome as I've never polished a frame before.

Thanks
 
POLISHED MY LADS FRAME AND SWINGARM
kits from heine gericke about £20
see if i can find some pics
 
The frame and swinging arm are anodized silver AMB. They are not bare metal with a clear laquer coating. The only way you are going to get rid of any marks is to polish the whole lot, firstly by removing all the anodized coating to reveal bare metal, a job and a half to start with
 
LEGS said:
The frame and swinging arm are anodized silver AMB. They are not bare metal with a clear laquer coating. The only way you are going to get rid of any marks is to polish the whole lot, firstly by removing all the anodized coating to reveal bare metal, a job and a half to start with
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legs is right you'd be a nutter to attempt this alot of hard work and it's never ending cleaning
 
I've just polished my frame - (well the visable parts only, if you remove the anodizing from the parts that are not visable you will not be able to wax it and it will quickly oxidize)
But beware it is hard work, the anodized coating is really tough, you'll need a frame polishing kit and make sure you have the polishing wheel for mild steel (anodizing is hard)
you start with the coarse grade doing a little bit at a time also remembering to keep the border with anodized parts of frame that your not removing neat and straight,
I would not bother with the swingarm unless your going to remove it and spend a lot of time on it! good luck :)
 
I polished my zx7r, its a nightmare to keep on top of.

Next time i'm powder coating far easier to keep on top of
 
OK guys I'm convinced that it's a bad idea.

Sounds like bloody hard work and I don't do hard work.

I think I may go with plan B and make up or buy some carbon covers.

Cheers for the responses though.
 
:biggrin Hello if you need some carbon bits.get a hold of boyler he is the man on carbon.have a merry christmas and a happy new year.. donnie :doug
 
Polishing frame and Swingarm :eek: huge job by crikey...i find just keeping my rim edges polished smick keeps me busy enough, let alone any larger surfaces. Carbon covers would look the duck nutz IMHO :thumbup Good luck with it all mate..remember the piccys :biggrin
 
Having 6 years of experience as a machinist and metal fabricator, I can tell you that you would be retarderd to consider trying to mess with this. Anodizing is not technically a "coating" so much as a treatment. Depending on the material anodized, it ranges from about 1/32" to 1/16" of an inch into the material so you would need to polish your balls off just to get to virgin material. The material was polished prior to being anodized though so you stand a decent chance of buffing off the staining w/o removing the anodized layer though. Just start w/ one of the finer abrasives that would normally be a 2nd or 3rd step abrasive in your polishing process and take it slowly. I know I personally stained my swingarm using an agressive cleaner and managed to buff it off using chrome polish on a rag by hand with alot of sweat and swearing. Good luck bro!
 
It's an idea but I can see a few issues with it:

I'd rather ride it than strip it

Cheaper to add some CF frame and swing arm covers

Lastly, my garage/shed is a fifth of the size of that one on the link.

I can see a PM heading towards Steve in the new year.
 
Is anyone any good with Photoshop?

Could they take an image of my RSV and put the swingarm and frame as black so I can see what they would look like?
 
PM me me a good side on Image and I will get my lad to do it now for ya ! :D
 
Eeza said:
PM me me a good side on Image and I will get my lad to do it now for ya ! :D
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Can you not nick the image from my garage? Click Me

I have a few images that you may be able to use for this.

PS. Thanks for doing this, always nice to know what it'll look like before spending hundreds of pounds and many hours stripping the bike.

PSS. Sorry if me spelling and grammrs going to ****, been on the beer and Brandy for a few hours. LOL
 
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