polishing tower

I have a brushed aluminum Pro-Flight on my 04 Cyclone. Can it be polished out with something that will make it look a little more chrome like and shine better.

Use NeverDull and or WD40. For an immediate shine, take some olive oil and douse it into a rag and wipe the aluminum down with it. I use olive oil on my stainless steel grill and tried it one day on my tower and was blown away.

Aluminum, exposed to air, reacts with the oxygen and creates aluminum oxide, which is very dull. The initial process is similar to steel rusting except the coating of aluminum oxide block the oxygen from getting any further down and thus the corriosion process stops with just the top layer.

You can polish aluminum by removing the layer of oxide. It will look good for a while but the corrosion will return.

The only way to stop the corrosion is to keep oxygen from getting to the aluminum. Coating it with some sort of oil may slow it down but unless you keep it oiled it will get dull.

There are clear coatings that you can apply to aluminum. One that I have seen used a fair amout is "Shark Hide":
http://www.sharkhide.com/

I see this stuff used on aluminum boats to make the hulls shiny.

What about racks? I have Boss racks, anything out there that cleans a polishes them real well?

Good explanation Rod. For what it's worth I used the olive oil over a week ago and the tower's still shining. We've had plenty of rain to wash it away too.