Polishing scratches out of brushed aluminum?
Is there any way to polish scratches out of brushed aluminum and restore the
brushed look?I have a Rockola 450 that has this around the keyboard area.It has several light but distracting scratches in this area,none that you can feel though.I tried in a hidden area under the plastic around the reject lever and coin entry with fine emery cloth smoothing out a scratch and I got the scratch but there is also no grain anymore in that area.Looks wierd compared to the surrounding area,real shiny.Maybe you just have to live with scratches on brushed aluminum unless someone knows a technique for restoring brushed aluminum. |
Jjmscf wrote:
Is there any way to polish scratches out of brushed aluminum and restore the brushed look?I have a Rockola 450 that has this around the keyboard area.It has several light but distracting scratches in this area,none that you can feel though.I tried in a hidden area under the plastic around the reject lever and coin entry with fine emery cloth smoothing out a scratch and I got the scratch but there is also no grain anymore in that area.Looks wierd compared to the surrounding area,real shiny.Maybe you just have to live with scratches on brushed aluminum unless someone knows a technique for restoring brushed aluminum. I've sanded out the scratches in brushed aluminum, also sanding the entire piece for a uniform look. Then used a combination of courser sandpaper very lightly, and a wire wheel on a grinder to give it the brushed look. It came out looking darn nice! Practice with some scrap aluminum. A brass wire wheel may work better than a steel one. Careful, some *brass looking* wire wheels are only brass plated! (bring a magnet if you go to buy one) When you have it looking good, spray it with a satin finish polyurethane. (or semi gloss, or gloss depending on what the rest of the pieces look like.) -- Tony |
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