'69 Coronet grille polish?

[oldbee]

Thanks for the 'Props' You Guys!!

In this realm he is "The Man", awesome knowledge.

 

[themechanic]

Guess the best option is to bring it to someone who can anodize it.
I am quite sure this process will cost a lot of patience and effort for a medium result.
Will have to look around for some shop in my area who does this.

Thx for the reactions folks!

Not many shops do Brite-Dipping. That's what the factory used on the grill and tail panel.

I had the anodizing shop strip my tail panel and took it to a guy in the next town for polishing since anodizing will fade over time. Polishing will fade, too. But it can be re-polished.

 

[Wietse]

Ok, so the current layer needs to be stripped.
After you polish the aluminium itself right?

Guess that why the PO blacked out the complete tail panel on my car as it will be harder to get that back to original state.

 

[texas69bee]

If you take it somewhere to have anodizing removed, all paint has to be removed first. Paint can be removed with a can of lacquer thinner and a roll of towels. After anodizing is removed, then you can polish the aluminum. Your tailpanel should look like this for a Bee.

 

[BeeKool]

View attachment 513920 If you take it somewhere to have anodizing removed, all paint has to be removed first. Paint can be removed with a can of lacquer thinner and a roll of towels. After anodizing is removed, then you can polish the aluminum. Your tailpanel should look like this for a Bee.

Thanks for the info.
In the maybe distant future I know who to get should of.
The Panel for my 70 is in great shape but needs freshener up.
I guess I neglected to notice how different 69 & 70 were

 

[Bladecutter]

View attachment 513920 If you take it somewhere to have anodizing removed, all paint has to be removed first. Paint can be removed with a can of lacquer thinner and a roll of towels. After anodizing is removed, then you can polish the aluminum. Your tailpanel should look like this for a Bee.

Toluene is good for stripping paint also, the solvents are hot, penetrate like lacquer thinner, acetone, mek but does not evaporate as quick.

 

[Bladecutter]

Ok, so the current layer needs to be stripped.
After you polish the aluminium itself right?

Guess that why the PO blacked out the complete tail panel on my car as it will be harder to get that back to original state.

The anodize has to be stripped 1st.

 

[Bladecutter]

Not many shops do Brite-Dipping. That's what the factory used on the grill and tail panel.

I had the anodizing shop strip my tail panel and took it to a guy in the next town for polishing since anodizing will fade over time. Polishing will fade, too. But it can be re-polished.

View attachment 513912

The Nu-Vite cleaner i mentioned previously will maintain a polished finish....wipe on, let dry to haze, wipe off. It was developed for 'de-bugging' the bright work on aircraft without clouding the finish,,,,leading edges, inlet rings etc & for full natural polish birds.

 

[Bladecutter]

In this realm he is "The Man", awesome knowledge.

Thank You very much for the kind endorsement oldbee!!

 

[themechanic]

FYI, my tail panel is from a 69 R/T not Super Bee.

I used gel paint stripper on my tail panel. I had to remove some bondo from a deep dent before they could strip it. Then took it to the anodize shop to be stripped.

 

[5.7 hemi]

When I do grilles, I have to strip the anodizing off, Easy Off heavy duty oven cleaner in the yellow can. Wear gloves when using it. Then it's time to fix the boo boo's. After that, its sanding time to 3k. Polishing is next followed by masking and painting. It's very time consuming, the effort is well worth the reward. Done many grilles for guys on FBBO, ask around.

 

[MarPar]

When I do grilles, I have to strip the anodizing off, Easy Off heavy duty oven cleaner in the yellow can. Wear gloves when using it. Then it's time to fix the boo boo's. After that, its sanding time to 3k. Polishing is next followed by masking and painting. It's very time consuming, the effort is well worth the reward. Done many grilles for guys on FBBO, ask around.

Zack is THE man!!