HOW TO POLISH STAINLESS STEEL | Renegade Products

stainless steel polishing is different than aluminum in that stainless steel when you polish this you're actually making a molecular change in the metal aluminum polishing you're cleaning the metal so that way you can bring out the shine with stainless stainless is made up of certain components of metal iron chromium and nickel being the three main ones with some carbon in there so as you're polishing stainless contrary to popular belief you do need some heat for stainless steel i get questions all the time from guys all over the country all over the world asking me about stainless because of what we do in the entertainer bus industry back home in nashville uh we do a lot of stainless so stainless being it's that it's a molecular change you have to heat it up to stretch the molecules as the stainless cools down your heavier molecules are going to rest on the bottom your lighter ones are going to come to the top of the surface to bring you that shine so that's the biggest difference in stainless you do actually need heat no to answer another question that i get all the time if you're doing the right process on stainless steel you cannot turn this air breather blue you cannot warp it even if you're going to run 6000 rpm if you do the right process there's no chance of you damaging this this part on this truck even if you're doing a thinner stainless visor do the right process you're going to come out just fine on your stainless steel polishing so but along with that there's a different pattern that we use for stainless polishing with aluminum aluminum will push over and then we'll move our buff up and pull back over okay we'll lay down that compound line which is the black line that's another question that we get a lot is what is the black line the black line is actually you want the black line that's a compound line so with aluminum you'll make a compound line here you'll move up an eighth of an inch make another compound line and so on and so forth you're pushing that compound up stainless on the other hand requires a little bit different technique so with stainless we're gonna push over then we're gonna and run our black compound line underneath that black compound line will be a grease line so we're going to come underneath our compound line and we're going to buff off that grease line then we're going to move up a little bit further above our compound line lay another compound line come below and do and buff off our grease line it's a rectangular pattern so that's going to allow the proper amount of heat transfer heat rises that's physics so that's going to allow proper heat transfer as you're moving upwards in the part so now with a breather i'm probably i'm not going to go upwards as much as i'm going to go i'm not going to go vertical i'm going to go horizontal around the breather so when judging your stainless steel parts you got to kind of look like which way are your lines going to go which way do you want your lines to go this part wraps around like this so you really want a horizontal style line you don't want a vertical line that's that's just not going to look good so we're going to get going on this stainless part we're going to use the red buff and we're going to use the yellow deluxe compound to clean up some of this wind burn and blend it in to the nicer areas of this breather this is a good trick to use a good compound and a good buff setup to use for the everyday guy the everyday truck driver that just wants to throw a little bit of shine on his on his stainless breather and he doesn't want to sand it yes it's wind burnt but it's not horrible i believe the yellow deluxe is going to cut that out without a problem so we're going to do that right now [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] one thing that's important to know about polishing stainless even polishing your aluminum is the art of the back cut now you guys just saw me do this one whole section of this breather you saw how i started out i loaded up my buff and i pulled down and back cut so what back cutting is going to do back cutting's got there's two main functions of back cutting number one it spreads your compound down so that way you're going to get a nice even coating of compound on this part so that way you don't have to load up as much when you go to do your next cut going upwards two the back cut allows that metal to go ahead and heat up allows the metal to stretch the pores to stretch so it's going to take the compound your next pass a lot easier and a lot quicker so back cutting is is more of an advanced technique but it's actually something that can be you know done very easily you can actually back cut and you don't have to back cut real fine when you're back cutting just back cut this way and then drop down back cut some more you're just trying to spread your compound around so that way you don't have to reload your bar onto your buff near as much so t keep that in mind when you're doing your stainless or even doing your aluminum uh we'll show you when we get on to the aluminum tank on this truck back cutting the tank but on stainless back cutting is actually pretty important because up here is cold down here that's nice and warm so this is going to polish out a lot easier now that i've back cut so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] you

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Length: 9min 9sec (549 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 10 2021