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Old Apr 5, 2007 | 12:02 AM
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What's good for polishing diamond plate? My bed rail caps are looking cloudy.
 
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Old Apr 5, 2007 | 12:07 AM
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i use mothers powerball with aluminum or chrome polish. Which ever u have. It works REALLY good. If you dont wana dish out th money for the power ball then you can jsut buy the Aluminum polish and apply it with a rag...then buff it off. works super good. good luck
 
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Old Apr 5, 2007 | 12:19 AM
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I use Never Dull, it comes in a can to buff on with swabs, let a film develop, and then buff off. Works wonders, just a lot of work
 
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Old Apr 5, 2007 | 01:22 PM
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Those were my suggestions as well. The powerball is really worth it for doing diamond plate! Just use it with your cordless drill and it's a wuper quick job.

I've always wondered about Flitz. Has anybody used it?
 
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Old Apr 5, 2007 | 05:20 PM
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I use the power ball with my dewalt drill that has a really high rpm. That combined with Eagle-one nano-polish brings some outstanding results.
 
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Old Apr 5, 2007 | 08:01 PM
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Never used Flitz, but do have the Powerball, works awesome on diamond plate, especially with Mother's Aluminum / Mag Polish
 
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Old Apr 29, 2007 | 10:37 PM
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Go to metalpolish.com and order some of there stuff. Its just a small small company and I have yet to run into anyone else that's even heard of it but it works. Its better than anything I have ever used or seen. Very powerful stuff and the best part is you can use it on any type of metal. Its a hell of a rust remover too. you can even use it on paint. I used it on my polished aluminum wheels that werent touched for 6 years. I'll tell ya I was sceptical. I had wasted sooo much money on crap and none of it worked well. This stuff ate the oxidation and all that crap right off and shined it up nice. Looks like glass.
 
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Old Apr 29, 2007 | 10:58 PM
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i too use mothers, but there is an older product that i hear is the best...now i cant remember which one of these products is, but it is definately one of the two, and yes both products do exist so youll have to look them up, swissol and wenol

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it is definately wenol, and it comes in a tube...swissol is a VERY VERY expensive wax
 
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Old Apr 30, 2007 | 12:23 AM
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Weenol
 
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Old Apr 30, 2007 | 04:00 AM
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Never Dull works best for me.
 
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