Painting Triumph Logo

[dazco]

Looks great ! Now if u really want a mirror look like that pic i posted, get out the dremel and get a cloth wheel along with metal polish. That simichrome polish RHB posted is really great stuff if u want the best, but it's crazy expensive. I used to use that stuff for years till it got to where i needed to rob a bank to be able to afford it.

 

[dazco]

By the way, what is that? A Tbird LT?

 

[Judagar]

By the way, what is that? A Tbird LT?

2014 LT - yep!

 

[Judagar]

Looks great ! Now if u really want a mirror look like that pic i posted, get out the dremel and get a cloth wheel along with metal polish. That simichrome polish RHB posted is really great stuff if u want the best, but it's crazy expensive. I used to use that stuff for years till it got to where i needed to rob a bank to be able to afford it.

I was going to polish more, but if sun is behind you it reflects right in your eyes.

 

[Judagar]

Thanks for all the help guys!!! Next project is to put TORS on it.

 

[Greyfell]

Great job getting past the hurdles! Looks good!

 

[Rocky]

Glad it turned out so well

 

[Slingshot]

Now I need to do mine, but wasn't quite sure what to use for the inlay paint....now I know. Buffed my clamp on a drill press already w/AL rouge. Simichrome is great stuff $9.00/1.76 oz tube, indeed not inexpensive, but that will last the rest of my life. Excellent job Judagar!

 

[dazco]

Now I need to do mine, but wasn't quite sure what to use for the inlay paint....now I know. Buffed my clamp on a drill press already w/AL rouge. Simichrome is great stuff $9.00/1.76 oz tube, indeed not inexpensive, but that will last the rest of my life. Excellent job Judagar!

Not me. Thats why i stopped using it. I do a lot of polishing, at least relative to you from what you say. And I was spending a fortune on it because i'd go thru it quick when doing a lot of polishing. Plus it seems like at some point they changed the formula and it didn't work as good. Not sure about that but it sure seemed so. They do that with care/bike care products all the time. Just had TWO of my fav detailing products change thier formulas so radically they went from all time favs to something i wouldn't take free.

 

[Judagar]

Flitz -

 

[Slingshot]

Not me. Thats why i stopped using it. I do a lot of polishing, at least relative to you from what you say. And I was spending a fortune on it because i'd go thru it quick when doing a lot of polishing. Plus it seems like at some point they changed the formula and it didn't work as good. Not sure about that but it sure seemed so. They do that with care/bike care products all the time. Just had TWO of my fav detailing products change thier formulas so radically they went from all time favs to something i wouldn't take free.

No...I don't do a lot of polishing....what I used it for was fine for small pieces of chrome not AL. Not surprised at all if "they" like others changed formula's to comply with VOC compliant materials and EPA. The EPA in USA ruined most if not all products "that used to work" into some variable of VOC compliancy....now 3-4 times the cost. Try to purchase a spray booth in the USA to apply allegedly VOC Compliant "Waterborne Coatings" .....you can't afford the permits to do so. Cabot's made a great oil based deck stain 15 years ago that you paid $10.00 for.....now the "VOC" compliant crap which doesn't work costs $45.00/gallon. Yes the EPA did a phenomenal job "one they had no business sticking face into" of driving solvent prices through the roof. Used to sell Denatured Alcohol at the hardware store for .79 cents, now it's $9.00 a quart. Sorry for the rant....There is a good read which I believe made the Best Seller List some years ago written by an attorney of all Phillip K Howard....entitled "The Death of Common Sense...how Law is Suffocating America". It deals in part with the very subject above....the EPA and your exact concerns. Got off the beaten track here.

 

[Qship]

Looks great. Dammit, now I'll have to do mine as well. makes the clamp look a lot better.

 

[Slingshot]

Think I'll order the 80.00 spray can of Lava Red and do that instead of the 6.00 can of Satin Black. I already have the base coat and clear coat... LOL

 

[DaveM]

It sure does look nice once done but the work involved is huge and once you start you need to finish it up.

 

[Judagar]

I'm putting the TORS on it tomorrow and then i'm done. already put the OPT7 lights on it.

 

[Slingshot]

Did Vance and Hines....lights next year.

 

[triumph david]

Slingshot, you are spot on concerning the EPA, they have just about put the chrome people out of business, but its ok to buy stuff from other countries, i could go on and on but i will bet a 6 pack of premium beer its really has something to with a dollar bill !!!!!!

 

[Slingshot]

triumph David Ya Think!?
...Save some money Good old Yuengling Lager made here in Pennsylvania is perfect and cost effective as well....bottles preferred. LOL Yuengling Lager - at Drizly.com
Story of the DER (another fine gov't agency) cost a huge foundry (now out of business) millions to "properly" remove hazardous waste foundry sand from casting molds as it contained 2ppm of Arsenic. It was proved after the fact that Arsenic is present in the ground we stand on at 3ppm. Don't get me started on OSHA. They wonder why manufacturing is slim to none in the US.

 

[Slingshot]

Correction:
They wonder why the waning heavy manufacturing has occurred over the years in the US. OSHA, EPA and DER have played a major role.

 

[triumph david]

You got that right,also Yuengling is my beer too!