Polishing a stainless steel exhaust

[Danny-B-]

Reet ... i bought this exhaust on ebay the other week for next to nowt

http://i.ebayimg.com/06/%21B6+6Ym%21EWk~$%28KGrHqZ,%21l0Ey+jCzNOkBMy-+%29FKgw~~_12.JPG

as you can see, is a bit scruffy, How do i go about polishing this up ?

Any easy and quick way?

Guides ive googled look pretty long winded and in the "ohh i cant be arsed doing that" side of things.

[Martyc]

Polishing wheel on a drill?

[Guest]

Silvo (like brasso but for silver stuff lol) and elbow grease.

And what martyc said too

[Hoody]

First thing I would do is give it a dose of Wonder Wheels.

I use it on mine and it works well.

[Guest]

I use this on my exhaust and down pipes - cleans them up a treat

[Jixerman]

I use Brasso and that grease stuff

Be careful if you decide use wonder wheels

Its a mild acid and if you leave it on too long it will stain the chrome

[Timmy Tiger]

Autosol is the only thing worth using in my opinion, I've tried Silvo and AutoGlym and if you like using lots of elbow grease for very little payoff then try them first, but once you've tried Autosol you'll never go back. Also theres a rip off make called Auto "something" (probably from Halfords) but thats rubbish too.

[Hoody]

I use Brasso and that grease stuff

Be careful if you decide use wonder wheels

Its a mild acid and if you leave it on too long it will stain the chrome

 

And had 'chrome cleaning' been asked I wouldn't have recommended it.

The question was about stainless.

[Jixerman]

I use Brasso and that grease stuff

Be careful if you decide use wonder wheels

Its a mild acid and if you leave it on too long it will stain the chrome

 

And had 'chrome cleaning' been asked I wouldn't have recommended it.

The question was about stainless.

 

Oh sorry

That is of course what I meant as it did this to my stainless can and was a bugger to get rid of the staining

If it ends up staining the steel then its an endless polishing task

[Stu]

give it a little clean up first and see if the can is pitted if it is and you want to do a good job of it get some wet and dry sand paper

start with something like P360 to remove the heavy marks on there then go for a P600 and finish with a really fine one P1200/P1500 thats the easy bit out the way!!

then get yourself some autosol and polish the hell out of it!!

it takes a lot of elbo grease but the finish will be as good as new