[Closed] Show me your polished cranks

Spittle and Jey cloth..10 mins 🙂

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Wow! What cranks are they?

Not mine I was kidding...

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looke like XT to me................... is there a prize 🙂

Deore with holes drilled through to look like XTR (ish), nice anyway and the exact cranks I have on my SS, hmmmmm I know a powdercoater as well

Just what i need on my Ti 'cross project.

Looks nice, I better took some do'ing 😥

Get your googling going for local metal finishers, a chroming place, powder coaters, they will all do ally polishing, or at least point you to somone local who will..

I did these old Saint cranks in a fit of boredom, haven't got quite the good finish like on the ones above but these are only hand polished, if I bought a buffer I am sure I could get them a lot better.

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I did it with Kleen-off oven cleaner, you are looking for it to contain Sodium Hydroxide.

Basically took a little while, stuck cranks in bucket, sprayed with oven cleaner and left for 15-20 mins and then scrubbed the loose anodising off with a green pan scrubber and repeated about 6-8 times until all the anodising was removed. Gave it a quick buff with Brasso. I think if you use Autosol and a buffer you could get it to a better finish. I did try it with fine wet and dry but found it too much like hard work and the oven cleaner worked better without scratching.

These looked old and tatty, so I set to work on them.

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Only sad to loose the logos in the process 😥

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Oh polished! I thought you meant scuffed ;0)

OxymOrOn are they RF evolve? Maybe I should do mine instead of forking out for some eno cranks? What method did you use?

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this linky explains it all (sort of). They are chatting about Motorcycle frames, but metal is metal.

No close up pics but I mirror polished these XTs, I've got all the gear from doing car split rims so didn't take too long.

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OxymOrOn are they RF evolve? Maybe I should do mine instead of forking out for some eno cranks? What method did you use?

No, old RF Turbines I bought off here.

I got a pack of different grades of wet and dry that I worked my way through, then used a metal polish from Halfrauds at the end

Keep 'em coming