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[spydglide]

never dull is used to shine brass, used it all the time in the military to shine brass work.

BrassO in the old days.    har!  spyder

[Fired00d]

BrassO in the old days.    har!  spyder

Oh yea, I remember that. Cotton balls and Brasso sitting around on foot locker shining and talking chit.

 
Ride Safe
Fired00d
 

[REGGAB]

Oh yea, I remember that. Cotton balls and Brasso sitting around on foot locker shining and talking chit.

 
Ride Safe
Fired00d
 

Yup.........We used Brasso and Dura-Glit.  Had to get the lacquer off the brass to make it shine good tho'.  That took some serious elbow grease until we figured out it was much easier to boil it off in a pot of boiling water.  When I was in Warrant Officer Candidate School in 1996, we had to use this stuff call Maas, which is a creme like Simichrome.  We used it on anything that would shine.........the Black Hats would even make us shine the inside of the Kiwi lid until it was like a mirror.  We had several methods to do that:  bypass the lid switch on a washer, wrap a rag around the top of the agitator, slather it with Maas, put it on spin, hold the Kiwi lid on the agitator and let her rip.

[reo]

Who do you recommend for chrome plating?

I would recommend Browns

http://www.brownsplating.com/index.php

Here's another link with a list of chrome platers all over the country, haven't tried any of these altho.

http://www.chromeclassics.com/services_plating_polishing.html



Roy......

[skreminegul07]

They claim it is safe for chrome. Some places on the web it says the product has no abrasives in it and in another place it will say it has mild abrasives.

Needless to say i would not have use it if I had known it had abrasives in it. I'm posting this to let anybody know that does a search that this product scratches chrome.

you might be able to buff the scratches out of the chrome, it's worth a try.

[Grizzly]

Sorry to hear about your chrome problems.

I use to use the same product until I noticed what it was doing... Very fine, but nontheless still scratches.

Now I use a creme product from AUTOSOL called "Metal Polish".  It claims to "clean, polish & protect" and I have to tell you that I am thrilled with the product!

Another tip is about the inner fairing on the EG's.  I have never used anything but warm water on the inner fairing (naturally I'm talking about the unpainted inner fairings).  The inner fairing on my wife's '07 EGUC looks great!  Her '97 EGUC looked as good as new when we traded it in on the '07.  Some of my buddies have used different products, one that comes to mind is Amoral, and they have virtually destroyed their inner fairings finish when they originally planned to make it shine... NOT a good idea at all to use anything but warm water on unpainted inner fairings.

Good luck!
Mike 

[oldharleyguy]

used this stuff to get crud off of my vance and hines pipes on my deuce.  no problems with scratches.   My two cents

[ccr]

Sorry to hear about your chrome problems.

I use to use the same product until I noticed what it was doing... Very fine, but nontheless still scratches.

Now I use a creme product from AUTOSOL called "Metal Polish".  It claims to "clean, polish & protect" and I have to tell you that I am thrilled with the product!

Another tip is about the inner fairing on the EG's.  I have never used anything but warm water on the inner fairing (naturally I'm talking about the unpainted inner fairings).  The inner fairing on my wife's '07 EGUC looks great!  Her '97 EGUC looked as good as new when we traded it in on the '07.  Some of my buddies have used different products, one that comes to mind is Amoral, and they have virtually destroyed their inner fairings finish when they originally planned to make it shine... NOT a good idea at all to use anything but warm water on unpainted inner fairings.

Good luck!
Mike 

Saw a good friend walking out of the Harley store a couple weeks ago and in his hand was this neverdull product.  I rememered this thread and I know my eyes opened real wide, and I asked if he knew that it can scratch.  I know we have some in the cleaning supply cabinet.  I need to move it on.  Thanks for the heads up.

[miker]

Wenol blue for polish after a wd40 cleanin.