Re: Aluminum cleaning and shining.

Posted by Something Odiferous on Jan 11, 2009; 1:36am
URL: http://vintage-and-classic-hondas.81.s1.nabble.com/Aluminum-cleaning-and-shining-tp457077p457081.html

A little follow up again.  I have been doing this to my 750 and what I came up with is the 180 grit sandpaper, then a 400 grit (a pretty fair amount of elbow grease).  I painted the motor with some good high heat paint from a local paint store, but kept the stator cover and ignition cover, and the chain gear cover unpainted.  The sandpaper does a good job, but I finished it with Never Dull and it looks very good.  The motor itself looks new, except that it is painted.

As a side note, the pipes on this bike were very rusty.  I sanded them down and used what's called a Very High Heat paint on them I got from Auto Zone.  The color was too light so I bought some Woodstove paint from Tractor Supply that gives them the flat black I wanted.  A local cage racer here told me he used the stove paint on his headers all the time.  Worth a try.  We'll see how it looks after I have a few miles on the bike.  Right now I likey.