Has anybody polished their aluminum cans? I was working with mine lastnight and the saw blade got gummed up with aluminum and even though I had them wrapped in bubble wrap, the pounding of them up and down scratched the bottom. So I need to buff them and wondering if anybody has done this and what they used. Thanks

Home Depot sells a kit.. you need a polishing wheel and some polishing rouge. It is easier to do when it is warm outside as heat plays a big part in the polishing of the part. Be forewarned, it does take time. Also make sure you don't have a clear coat on it, it may not match the other can(s) if you take the clear coat off of only only one of the cans.

i usually recycle aluminum cans...<img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/clipart/proud.gif" border=0>

sounds familiar... <BR> <BR>I bought a cotton wheel and put it on one side of my old grinder. I have been using it to polish some brackets I made out of aluminum angle. You probably need to first sand out the rough spots if there are any, use a fine emery cloth. Next use a stiff wheel and a heavy rouge to do the rough polishing. Finally you can hand polish out the machine marks using a cloth diaper with Mothers or Hapich Semi-Chrome coupound. If you take your time and work the process through the cans will look better then new, waaay better.

get ready to get dirty... really dirty

At one point I polished a ski pylon that was in my boat. I wet sanded it with 1500 then used mothers aluminum polish. It worked pretty good. I guess it depends on how deep the scratches that you have are. The mothers aluminum polish works pretty well, I would try that first. I also used it on my board racks to get rid of some of the water stains. Here are a couple of pics of the pylon I did. <BR><img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/messages/65921/220211.jpg" alt=""> <BR><img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/messages/65921/220212.jpg" alt="">

thanks for all the help, I'll try just polish first since they scratchs aren't deep.<img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/clipart/happy.gif" border=0> <BR> <BR>(Message edited by skibum69 on March 31, 2005)