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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 06:05 PM
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This past weekend my dad and I went to a truck(semi) truck. We were walking through all the vendors when i stumbled across a different metal cleaner/polish. I have a diomond plate tool box that is extremly acid stained. ive tried all the products i can get localy (mothers mag and aluminuim, mothers power aluminum w/ power ball, turtle wax metal polish, and many more.) Well heres the result with the new polish.






the area marked in red is a small sample area where i tried the new polish/cleaner .......the rest of the around the red is extremely acid stained and white, been impolisible to get out.






the area marked in red is a small sample area where i tried the new polish/cleaner .......the rest of the around the red is extremely acid stained and white, been impolisible to get out.







im not done yet but this is what the results are looking like and how much its cleaning up
 
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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 06:10 PM
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So what is this magic polish?
 
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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 06:11 PM
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have you tried never dull? Navy uses it on their ships. On my old oil burner my rear bumper by the tail pipe was always black, no matter what I did to clean nothing worked, just swiping the nuver dull across broke it right up.
 
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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 07:24 PM
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excuse my stupidity its been along day:

its called California Customs (http://www.californiacustom.com/ourproducts.html)
its a 2 step product ( deoxidizer and polish)
while @ the show i spent bout an hour talking to the owner of the company , he gave me some great tips) such as using a small square of carpet to apply polish on diomond plate to get into all the little nooks and crannies , and to use an x pattern to work the polish in.


and RamItOne i tried never dull ( use it weekly on my ss tips) but it did absotely nothing on this tool box it was truly awefull

i also bout some of their waxes and other cleaners and ill let u know how good they wrk

 
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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 08:07 PM
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Well the turtle wax stuff that I got at autozone works great for the surface rust I had on my bumper. I didn't believe what they said about just rubbing out rust, but no ****.. it just comes off with no work at all! Crazy.. I totally believe in turtle wax now, even though I had no problem with them before!
 
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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 08:25 PM
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I had the same results with regular rubbing compound and a buffing wheel in an electric drill on my tool box.
 
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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 08:53 PM
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citygasdude- i was just impresses with this product because thouse results were by hand and not much effort
 
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Old Apr 2, 2008 | 08:59 PM
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I hear you,, guess I should have said even though the compound and buffer were cheap I did spend several hours at it and not to mention all the crap the buffer slung on the rest of the truck, LOL.
 
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