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Welcome to My Truck & Automotive Home Page Services With full service mobile custom polishing , we can work with clear coat, aluminum, stainless steel, etc. We handle everything from small cars trucks through to full custom show cars and trucks. We'll go to the location when it is not practical to come it to us. We polish engine casings, cam covers, valvecovers, alternators, tanks, wheels, custom fabrications and castings. If you have been using Mothers, Maguires, Autosol, Simichrome, Flitz, Wenol, Never Dull, Eagle One, etc. Whether you are polishing aluminum, stainless steel or chrome. You are polishing too hard, too often! We have the best metal polish range in the world, and we’re out to prove it! With Custom Polishing & Detailing polishing the Trucking Show and Custom Industries, we have both the products and services to fulfill your every requirement. Check out the photo page to see some of the work done by Custom Polishing & Detailing. When we are polishing any metals there are always things to be taken into consideration whether the metal is aluminum, stainless steel or chrome. Things that make life easier, healthier, safer, quicker or basically deliver better results. We will try to pass on some of the tricks we have learned to save you time and effort. Safety Tips
PROTECT YOURSELF! 1) Clean up your work as much as you possibly can before you try to polish it. 2) Clean up your work area regularly placing hazardous tools and chemicals out of harms way. 3) Avoid build up of buffing dusts, soiled cloths, or mixing dusts and cloths. 4) By mixing solvents , various metal buffings, shavings, and maybe a bit of oil in a bin we have the potential for a big firework. Don’t do it. 5) Do not smoke, use open flame burners or any other source of ignition in a fume or dust laden atmosphere. People often forget about dust explosions. They are normally fatal. 6) Clean up your work piece between every buffing stage with either alcohol or mineral spirits to remove dirt and residue from compounds. 7) Any abrasive or polish is only as fine as its coarsest component. 8) Use cloths that have no labels and preferably no sewn edges. 9) When you are polishing large pieces, do small areas at a time, it’s faster and more consistent. 10) When you do a final polish, clean up and then buff it out. Any dirt on the cloth? Buff it again 11) Never put waxes over chrome. It makes it look hazy. 12) Remove buff lines with flour or sodium bicarbonate. 13) Remove surplus waxes and polishes from seams, pit marks or awkward to get at places with flour. 14) Mist your final buffing with a light misting of water and buff it again. This seals both metals and waxes and helps reduce water stains from rain and condensation 15) Always use top quality soft cloths for your final buffing. 16) Use light pressure, especially on polishing strokes when power buffing. It reduces scratches. 17) Always move buff machines slowly across work pieces, again, less scratches. 18) Never, ever, use anhydrous solvents, ammonia or acids, or polishes that contain them on aluminum, Brass, Copper or bronze. They eat Zinc and attack most alloys. Brass is Zinc and copper, it is normally present in aluminum, it is used to make many steels and alloys less corrosive. 19) Always try to make finishing strokes with machines or by hand in the direction of the grain if the metal is rolled. 20) If you use electrical tools make sure there is a G.C.F.I. (Ground circuit fault indicator) in the line. It might save your life. 21) If you use air tools drain your tanks regularly, and if you can put an air drier between the compressor and the tank. Dry air equals less rust. Your tank will last a life time. 22) Don’t rush your polish job. It will show. 23) Always wear safety glasses when working with power tools. 24) Always use liquid polishes, pastes, paint strippers, solvents, etc. in well ventilated areas. 25) Never, ever, remove oil, grease, buffing compound from the skin with solvents, mineral spirits, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol or similar chemicals. If soap and maybe a little pumice wont do it. stay dirty, it’ll wear off. Use chemicals and you may save the undertaker a little formaldehyde, but other than that, the potential results are all negative. 26) Avoid particulate absorption of metals. Excess metals in the system cause all sorts of disorders and they are readily taken in through the skin and lungs. 27) The easiest way to reduce contamination is to polish in the open air and in areas where the is a cross flow of air 28) Don’t let all my warnings get you down or frighten you, just be sensible and enjoy your polishing safely. 29) Remember that polishers always have a bright future. |
 Aluminum & Chrome Aluminum is my favorite metal of all you can always do something with aluminum. Remove severe oxidization, acid and salt stains with metal polish and restore. Finish your aluminum the same as you would any quality metal like silver or gold. On show trucks, use polishes with carnauba waxes to finish, like our Extreme Aluminum, Extreme Chrome, or Extreme Stainless Steel metal polish. When you get the aluminum to a fine enough quality to use Extreme Aluminum polish, you won't tell it from chrome. When your chrome is in good shape it should be polished with the finest abrasives possible, or it will show scratches. Badly burned and blued exaust pipes should be polished with a harsher cutting product like our Extrmeme Chrome Polish to get it back into shape and remove the bluing.  Polishing & Waxing Tips Most cars now come with a clearcoat finish, which tricks owners into thinking they don't need wax. Actually, you should wax your car 3-4 times a year. Most manufacturers also recommend washing your car once a week. Remember to start washing your car only when the car's surface is cool and only after rinsing the entire car. Rub gently, one section at a time, and use specific car wash products--never household cleaners. After rinsing your car well, dry it with a soft, clean cloth. |
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