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@Crewella who is my biggest loyal van (i must add she has yet to make a larger purchase) said she would be most interested if i polished my squid up
so tonight ladies gents and for you @Crewella the oh god polished squid double barrel thread
DVD?
but of course
Castaway
"Chuck Noland: Now I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"
we need a squid my squid
looks nasty, easy to pull apart 3 screws ease off the top (see the springs of doom ?)
and here is the champagne version of the squid notice the real crappy spray on finish
now this mod is odd its stainless but looks low grade it may not be of course but I can't tell till I polish it
to polish is to remove the product you are taking a layer of material off I don't care how many youtube videos tell you otherwise but in fact, you are, imagine looking across a valley see the peaks and the valley floor well polishing takes off those peaks and makes it flatter the flatter it is the more it reflects light back (in laymans terms)
I have polished lots of things from gold to platinum from steel to alloy all react differently some keep there polish for a couple of hours some for a long time
here is inside your squid note the black sealing gunk and note no machine marks
so I'm going to knock it back with a stitch mop at say 3000 rpm in effect I'm just going to grease it up to see how the tube reacts
see where the tube is, it's in a certain area on the mop if I polish it wrong or hold it badly it will kick back its not so bad on a grease but when I finish mop or cross-hatch (more about that in a min) it can get dangerous at 5000rpm etc
now I have greased the tube with various mope some stitch some loose, metal has grain so I need to go with the grain to start plus this has a reverse curve in the middle, also there are small knicks in the steel I could buff these out by satineening first but this will cause either a dragline or a flat spot so I will risk it but all that crappy finish is gone
I'm starting on the finish mop I am not going to use rouge as it cant handle stainless I will also go cross hatch that is 90 degrees to the grain of the tube I will alternate this as i go checking the mod, Im at full speed here no gloves as the mod isnt getting hot but I need to be aware one slip and this mod will quite literally embed itself in the bench
I happy its a tube if it was flat I would have to go down the lines of felt mops and lapping which is another story
a quick dip in the ultrasonic to clean
I've quickly mopped the base over I'm not too concerned here as this is my mod so some paint can remain
screw it back together and we have
one polished squid
its softer and oddly warmer in the hand
love my mods really love them?, then like them,,,buy one 9 weeks till xmas....
so tonight ladies gents and for you @Crewella the oh god polished squid double barrel thread
DVD?
but of course
Castaway
"Chuck Noland: Now I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"
we need a squid my squid
looks nasty, easy to pull apart 3 screws ease off the top (see the springs of doom ?)
and here is the champagne version of the squid notice the real crappy spray on finish
now this mod is odd its stainless but looks low grade it may not be of course but I can't tell till I polish it
to polish is to remove the product you are taking a layer of material off I don't care how many youtube videos tell you otherwise but in fact, you are, imagine looking across a valley see the peaks and the valley floor well polishing takes off those peaks and makes it flatter the flatter it is the more it reflects light back (in laymans terms)
I have polished lots of things from gold to platinum from steel to alloy all react differently some keep there polish for a couple of hours some for a long time
here is inside your squid note the black sealing gunk and note no machine marks
so I'm going to knock it back with a stitch mop at say 3000 rpm in effect I'm just going to grease it up to see how the tube reacts
see where the tube is, it's in a certain area on the mop if I polish it wrong or hold it badly it will kick back its not so bad on a grease but when I finish mop or cross-hatch (more about that in a min) it can get dangerous at 5000rpm etc
now I have greased the tube with various mope some stitch some loose, metal has grain so I need to go with the grain to start plus this has a reverse curve in the middle, also there are small knicks in the steel I could buff these out by satineening first but this will cause either a dragline or a flat spot so I will risk it but all that crappy finish is gone
I'm starting on the finish mop I am not going to use rouge as it cant handle stainless I will also go cross hatch that is 90 degrees to the grain of the tube I will alternate this as i go checking the mod, Im at full speed here no gloves as the mod isnt getting hot but I need to be aware one slip and this mod will quite literally embed itself in the bench
I happy its a tube if it was flat I would have to go down the lines of felt mops and lapping which is another story
a quick dip in the ultrasonic to clean
I've quickly mopped the base over I'm not too concerned here as this is my mod so some paint can remain
screw it back together and we have
one polished squid
its softer and oddly warmer in the hand
love my mods really love them?, then like them,,,buy one 9 weeks till xmas....
