Description
Extreme Metal Polish by Great-Lion – is a liquid aluminum polishing paste designed for final polishing or maintaining the shine of metals (not “durabright” coated aluminum discs) or non-ferrous metals. With extreme shine in a short time. Attention bikers, take a good look at the parts you want to refinish, because some parts are already factory painted on your machines. So that you don’t damage the lacquer. Renovation has its own beauty in the simplicity which this liquid polishing paste for aluminum and other non-ferrous metals has.
In conjunction with a soft polishing disc or flannel cloth (microfibre cloth), it works best. Polishing paste for aluminum is applied to a cloth or 100% cotton cloth (flannel, 100% cotton) or an applicator. Can be used for both machine and manual polishing. It gives the product a mirror effect again in a very short time interval and is quickly applicable. Great-Lion’s Extreme is the most effective liquid polishing paste I’ve gotten to my hands on while renovating. The result you can achieve in polishing is different depending on the condition of the material and also the aluminum alloy. When polishing new tanks on trucks, you can achieve a beautiful mirror gloss. Already during prime polishing and even without grinding. The opposite is the case with polishing already one-year or half-year-old tanks, which were often washed in dishwashers using shampoos containing acids or alkalis, when the tank is etched more than washed. It is white and without shine. But even these older tanks can be polished with Great-Lion’s Extreme, they will achieve a shine if you grind the surface and then polish it.
WHEN I WAS DRIVING A TRUCK AND EXPERIMENTING WITH POLISHING, I WAS BUYING METAL POLISHING PASTES THAT WERE AVAILABLE BOTH THROUGH E-SHOPS AND AT GAS STATIONS AND NEIGHBORHOOD STORES. I WAS LOOKING FOR A FUNCTIONAL ALUMINUM POLISHING PASTE. MY DISAPPOINTMENT WAS THAT THOUGH THE PASTES WERE POLISHING, THE RESULT WAS A MATT MIRROR OR JUST A SHINE OR TOOK A LONG TIME TO ACHIEVE A SHINE. MANY WERE RECOMMENDED BY THE MANUFACTURER NOT ONLY FOR METAL BUT ALSO FOR PLASTIC ETC. ONLY UNIVERSAL PASTE DOESN’T WORK VERY MUCH. THE SAME APPLIES TO CHEAP PASTAS. AND SO PRACTICE AND SEARCH SHOWED THAT THIS POLISHING PASTE HAS NO COMPETITION. SOME POLISHING PASTES DID NOT WORK, OTHERS WERE GOOD FOR PRE-POLISHING (ONE OF THE PROCEDURE TO ACHIEVE A MIRROR SHINE). OTHERS WERE BADLY POLISHED BY HANDS. UNTIL A FRIEND BROUGHT ME THIS LIQUID POLISHING PASTE THAT I TRIED TO POLISH WITH. SUDDENLY THE OTHER LIQUID PASTE WENT ASIDE.
The renovation of the aluminum disc gave a completely different meaning at the time and the result was truly stunning. With the new tanks, I achieved a beautiful mirror shine, without the use of a sander. And that opened up a new direction of polishing. Yes, it can be polished in one phase. But it’s really about the surface, the alloy and the type of metal material. New tanks on trucks have the advantage of being pre-ground with a fine sandpaper, making single-phase polishing a step easier. Even though Extreme works well on its own, I recommend grinding the surface of the material first and then pre-polishing it with a green hard polishing paste for aluminum with a hard polishing disc for a drill or an orange polishing wheel and then polish with Extreme metal polish and in conjunction with a soft polishing wheel or a white polishing wheel or flannel cloth.
Why, use Hard paste and a disc and a drill or an orange polishing disc and green paste? The green solid paste has incorporated abrasive particles that are coarser than those in Extreme and you pre-polish the polished workpiece using a drill or polisher that is still at the same speed. And the renovation of the aluminum disc will bring an increase in mirror shine.
At the beginning of aluminum polishing, we must grind the surface thoroughly. I have tried sanding aluminum tanks using an eccentric sander or a sander with selectable revolutions up to 3500 revolutions with an extra fine backing plate (driver), from roughness P180, P320, P400, P600, (we choose P800 for manual final polishing). After sanding, apply Extreme Metal Polish to a soft cloth (flannel or 100% cotton). The applied amount differs from the area we want to polish. Polish the Extreme applied to the cloth in a circular motion until the entire surface is covered (it turns black due to the substances in the product). After polishing and covering the surface, let Extreme from Great-Lion dry for a while (the surface will change color from black to gray) and polish the surface to a mirror shine with a clean cloth or a clean microfiber towel.
