HOW TO POLISH A YETI CUP - MAKE ANY STAINLESS STEEL LOOK LIKE CHROME!

man you could shave in this thing compared to that what's going on guys and welcome back to the channel where today I am going to show you how to take an ordinary stainless steel yeti cup and make it look like this one that I've already done roll the intro [Music] [Music] so first things first before we get started there's a few things that we need to address when you're polishing anything that is metal it's very bad if you get it in your lungs or you get it in your eyes it's very hard to get out very unpleasant so when you're polishing anything first thing that you need is a respirator we're going to be sanding these Yeti cups down with a high speed sander so we really don't want that stuff getting in our lungs we also have a pair of safety glasses the other great option that's out there is a full face respirator I don't currently have one I need to go get one but it has the respirator portion built into a full face shield which is really nice if you've watched some other videos out on YouTube you're going to see a lot of professional polishers using this but for today these will work keep us nice and safe keep the stainless out of our lungs and we'll go from there so the second aspect of safety anytime you're polishing we're going to be using airway buffs today made by Zephyr and there's two sets of safety flanges I have here this one is your more common when you're first getting started chop one of these down on here and then your wheel take one of these out of the box so your airway buff there go on there just like that and second safety flange goes on top and then you put your nut on there like so now in my case because I've been doing this for a little while now I decided to upgrade to centering flanges which are these now in these you'll put your bottom flange down now these pads are directional so if you're using the one that has a sticker like that with the other style flanges you're going to leave that that Center plate in there and the sticker side is going to be facing up when you put it on the mandrel with these they're going to drop down like so and then you're going to spin that on and tighten it up now that we've got safety out of the way so what we're going to need to get started is we have our Yeti now what I like to do is take a sharpie and we're actually going to put random marks all over it and the reason that we're going to do that is as we're sanding when those marks start disappearing we've got all those brush lines out I'm not sure how well you guys can see those but if you picked up a Yeti before you probably know what I'm talking about so we want to get all those out and from experience and doing this in the past the way that I've done it and what I feel works best for me I start out with 320 grit sandpaper we're going to jump up to 400 grit now I'm going to do this using an 8,500 rpm four and a half inch grinder as you can see I've taken the safety stuff off for using the carbide blades or carbon blades this particular model is a twenty-seven 80-20 so we'll use that we are going to use this head on our polisher and spin that down get it down nice now over here these are called interface pads so they're nice and soft so drop one down like that that one there I believe is supposed to be 10 millimeters thick and this guy here is actually a little bit thicker it's about 20 and the reason that we're going to use these is when we set our sandpaper down on it kinda hard to do this one-handed by the way once we get our sandpaper down on there and we start to apply you're going to use very light pressure but you're gonna want that to give a little bit so that way it doesn't cut into your yeti cup if it does it's going to do one of two things it will either burn the yeti where it'll actually turn it yellow because it's so high speed so much friction or it will actually cut little grooves into it which you know you don't want that as the light reflects from different angles you'll actually see it start to look like you have flat spots so we want to try to avoid those so we're going to use our 8500 rpm high speed sander for the 320 the 400 and then the 600 now once we get up to 600 grit we're going to da or orbital sand at 600 again once again using an interface pad as well and then we're going to sand with the da at 800 grit so once we get our sanding out of the way we're going to move into our polishing and for our first cut that's going to be your heaviest wheel over here Zephyr calls this the quick cut if you look it's a orange and yellow air way buff and we're going to move into our secondary cut this is going to kind of smooth out with the first cut left over and they call this one the Joker pad it's a green and purple combination and then the final cut we are going to use a dome at flannel and by the way my favorite thing about Zephyr is it's made in the USA I think that is just awesome because there is not too many companies out there that keep all their stuff in-house over here in America so another thing I just wanted to throw out there when I first got started with polishing there was a lot of different things that I was looking into trying to figure out how to do different things and the Zephyr team gold standard finishing as well as Texas premier polishing we're courteous enough to answer some of the questions that I have and you know I'm a very brand loyal person if you go out of your way to help me out I'm gonna stick with you for life and I just thought that that was awesome of them to take time out of their day and teach me a few things or answer some of the questions that I had when I first got started with this so moving on we got two different polishers here this is a Matco tools seven zero zero two SP this guy here is about 20 years old it's an oldie but a goodie it's got two speeds the first speed your high speed is 3,500 rpms I believe that the lower speed on that guy is about I don't know 1800 or so and this one here is fairly new to me but I have got to give it credit this guy here is a cordless Milwaukee its model number seven two three eight twenty and that thing is awesome I take that polisher once a week once every couple of weeks and go out and clean up my wheels on my truck and it is so nice to not have to run an extension cord all the way out to it and surprisingly it's got a fair amount of torque now the only downfall to it as far as metal polishing goes is your low speed is 1800 and on the high end we're only going to get about 21 22 hundred out of it so it's not good for your heavy cutting it's going to be great when you get into your finish cut that's when we're going to be using the dome at flannel here so awesome for that kind of stuff it's also great for sanding sometimes instead of using the high speed sander I will actually use this guy for my sanding now once we start polishing the way that these work you get them spinning on your grinder and you're going to touch them to these Rouge bars now I've got three bars set out this is your 87 stainless that's gonna be your heavy cut I don't know if we're gonna need to use this I actually we're gonna do a little bit of trial and error today guys what we are going to use is this black magic bar I've already broke it into three pieces and the first time I did this guy here we used the Mac's red bar which is just awesome I love this bar on anything aluminum so we're going to sand out to 800 grit we're going to take our our heavy cut wheel we might even start with the medium cut wheel it's always nice to start at a lighter cut because you can always go deeper but once you go deeper then you have to work more to get what you need out of it so start with that guy we might jump up to that if we need to but my suspicion is is we're going to stay somewhere between here and here now that we've gotten everything kind of covered as far as what we're going to be doing what we're using let's go ahead and get started we've got our yeti randomly marked up with sharpie so that way we can tell once we get those brush lights out now I don't have a job horse those are a really nice tool you can take those things and grab ahold of these fairly well so what I'm using here is a bench vise with a clamp in it and what I'm going to do is take some microfibers take the dirty one and keep it on the outside of the cup because it really don't want to drink any of that stuff and we'll take the one that's a little cleaner than that and stuff it in here lock it down you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] alright guys so we just got our Yeti Cup fully sanded she's looking good the main thing that you want to look for once you start sanding these you want to be able to see some good reflection so you can see my knuckles just like that so don't worry about that the one thing I forgot to mention is that when you are sanding you want to be real careful around the letters as well as at the bevel so really really light pressure especially when we're using that rotary sander so that way we don't take those out you can see right there see if I can get this to focus for you it will round out the corners a little bit you know that's just part of it but we'll go ahead and get this polish going so the first step we're going to get our centering flanges if you don't have nice centering clean just like that these will work fine you're just going to use this center piece right here instead of knocking it out like I did so that way we can use these [Applause] we got our grinder set up have the heavy cut wheel on there other thing we're gonna need is a rake now with your heavy cut it's not as important to rake when we get into the finer finishes we're going to have to rake the wheel out meaning that we we take the rake we apply it to the wheel like so and we're gonna knock some of the stuff out I'll show you that later and one thing when we start working on this stainless is it takes a little bit of heat to build up so when I start working on this I'm gonna be basically making rectangles like this so we'll kind of go back a little bit go forward more come back through the area that we just did as opposed to just passing left to right and moving up our piece also really important when you're doing these Yeti cups you always want when you're at your edges see this wheel turns that way so when you get to an edge it's okay to come on to the edge onto your workpiece but if you go this way and you go off it's going to catch that edge and take the grinder and go that way or it might try to take your piece that you're working on and rip it out of your hands so when we do this I'm gonna start this way and as I get close to the opposite side I want it like that so that way I'm bringing my wheel back onto my piece so from there come across to there that way we don't catch this edge and go fling that way [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] well guys I hope you learned something new today very happy with the results on this thing I think that it actually came out better than our original 1 gallon jug just so you can get a nice comparison that's a polished Yeti next to an unpolished Yeti and it is just amazing what Zephyr products can do to brighten these things up and take the original and customize it so I hope you liked the video guys go check out those F repolish as I'll put links in the description to what I used to make this Yeti shine the way I did if you enjoy the video and you want to see more how-to videos and things of that nature in the future please hit the like button subscribe let me know what your all stocks are if there's something else you'd like me to polish so that way you could see how to do it different tips and tricks things like that and I'll see you guys on the next upload

Channel: Brackish Industries

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Length: 21min 40sec (1300 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 19 2020