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Letter 6027
Renewing aluminum look
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I am a member of a small fire dept in northern NH. We built a
3000gal tanker with a 15 year old aluminum tank. we would like to put
thetank back to newer looking. It has small pit marks but they are
notdeep.
Mother's Aluminum Polish [link is to product info at Amazon] and
other polishing products are not working. we alsohave aluminum
diamond plate that needs polishing.
Thanks for any help.
Kev Staines
Jefferson Fire Dept - Jefferson, NH
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Aluminum is one of the more difficult metal to get a good
mirrorfinish on and it is easily messed up.It sounds like it is a
prettygood sized job. I assume you are using power buffing tools. If
youare not, you should. The marks you mentioned, while not looking
likea problem may well be. It probably means that you need to
removeand/or blend surface finish with a mild cutting/polishing
rough. Isuggest you use alum oxide, which can be in bar or liquid
form andlooks white. Try that before we try anything else.
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