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Billp
| Posted on Friday, December 03, 2010 - 08:47 am: |
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I've bought a spare rear pulley to polish for my 03xb9s. I know how to take the wheel off and swap it out, but how do I polish it ? I don't have a compressor but I do have drills and a dremel so I guess I can do it by hand, but what do I use to strip the coating then polish it ? I have no idea. I know the hardware stores have wire wheels in various sizes and come in coarse,medium,and fine. Can I use those to strip the coating ? Is it worth the $ to bring it to a local shop to be blasted ? Then just polish it at home. And how/what do I use to polish it ? Thanks for the help. Bill, Charlotte nc |
Whitetrashxb
| Posted on Friday, December 03, 2010 - 08:54 am: |
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i had mine powdercoated silver. There is also the Buell diamond 'somethin or other' rear pulley upgrade, but it seems like polishing it might be a chore, but good luck |
Gunut75
| Posted on Friday, December 03, 2010 - 08:58 am: |
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I used some 400grit to get the powder coat off of parts of mine. The easy way would be to see if your local anodizer can dip it in the chemical etch tank for ya. You will have bare aluminum if ya do that. |
Toona
| Posted on Friday, December 03, 2010 - 10:23 am: |
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I used a 3" Roloc wheel on a die grinder, sanded from 180 to 220 to 400 then 600. The used my pedalstool buffer for actual polishing. While it can be done by Dremel, you won't get the results like using proper equipment. I could sand/buff it for you for $50 including return shipping. Check out the pulley in my profile picture. |
Xb984r
| Posted on Friday, December 03, 2010 - 04:49 pm: |
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Use aircraft stripper to get the powdercoat off and then sand from there. |
Ourdee
| Posted on Friday, December 03, 2010 - 05:20 pm: |
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Best way would be if you had access to an ice blast machine. We had some where I used to work. It is like a sand blaster, but instead of sand it would shave a 50 pound block of dry ice. It would blast the frozen CO2 into the surface and it would turn into a gas. It removed powder coating from aluminum just leaving clean aluminum. Main use was cleaning epoxy out of steel tooling but it was also good for cleaning charcoal grills. Not cheap to operate. |
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