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What do you guys use on your mag wheels, any favored polish or other trick stuff to protect bare mag? As I asked in the other thread, is Gibbs Brand really any good in protecting magnesium? I have used Snap-on Metal Polish with pretty good results.

send them over to me ill polish the BRMS for you..




you may never get them back though.


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Ive used this before and its so soft it takes ages but its really good finnish

I have Burners, and always wipe a layer of Gibbs Brand on them after polishing ( with Mequires next Gen ) the Gibbs is by far the best way extend the intervals between polishing, The Gibbs does not protect against water splash spots but it deffinately slows down the oxidization process considerably. With bare Mag, it's best to keep water off them all together ( or you will be polishing them every day...)

I use Belgom, i think it's a Belgium Metal polish product but it"s very good.  Mag wheels and polishing is a bitch.  I polish wheels for myself and friends from time to time and I had spend some days on genuine gasburners and they were very shiny, but after 4 days just laying in my livingroom they were doll again...  I've handpolished real BRM's but the quality of magnesium is even worse than the Porsche gasburners....

Good luck, but if you live in Europe it will be hard to keep them shiny.

Philip

In the old days, Brasso was the polish of choice for BRM's.  I still like using it to this day.  Use some corn starch on your wipe-off rag for the finishing touch (it will help abosorb all the black residue easier).  Have fun! ;)

Good old Brasso eh? My parents used to polish everything round the house with that back in the 70s  ;D

The Army taught me all about Brasso  ::) .  Almost forgot... paper towels work better then rags for polishing (they absorb better)

before MOTHER polish
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after fews hours of work

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I have used Mother's for years. If they are pretty oxidized you can use some 0000 steel wool dipped in polish, then 1 cloth to put it on & another clean cloth to take it off. Old cotton socks work very well. Paint all non polished surfaces like the inner bead & the back of the wheel, this will help to seal it up. Do not get them wet!! do not touch them with your hands (or any other parts) & watch out for cats.  Bill

Wonder if cats are attracted to corn starch, or the Mothers polish??  ::)

I've used polishing wax  and combination of (not sure of English terms) sisal/fabric-wheels to polish both my alloy (orignal 5-spoke and Fuchs) and magnesium (Gas Burner) wheels..

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and Pol to maintain the polish..

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(but based on Google search it seems to be discontinued: http://www.tedpella.com/material_html/polish.htm (http://www.tedpella.com/material_html/polish.htm))

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When I polish my Fuch wheels I use;

Dry 80 grit paper to remove scratches and the original paint.
Dry 150
Dry 240
Wet 400
Wet 600
Wet 800
Wet 1000

Then cotton disc with different abrasive.

To clean them, I use Belgom or Triompf.

When you polish you wheels with wet abrasive paper, always change the water when you change the grade of grit.

I have gasburners, and use AUTOSOL

http://www.autosol.com.au/MetalPolishes.html

I use it my EMPI sprintstars as well.........great results.
Interesting post....I may try some of the others

I prefer Before !!
 ;D ;D ;D ;D
Just kinking you !  ;)

Flitz works real good if you can find it.....

I used mes brms with MOTHER'S  it's very good polisih and it's perfect

I'm with Sarge.......I had always used Brasso.
I remember someone once, back in the early 70s,  told me that the only thing I should use that wouldn't hurt the magnesium was a bar of Bon-Ami soap! My mom had one under her sink and I stole it, but never did try it and I still have that bar of soap today.

Take an early walk through the pits at a nostalgic drag race and you will notice that almost everyone uses Gibbs on their magnesium wheels. When i started helping on a Fuel Altered, I was low man on the totem pole so I had to do the wheel polishing and we didn't use Gibbs (it wasn't important to the owner). When we finally got fresh blood to do the grunt work, we changed to aluminum wheels!!! Life is not fair!!


Marc

And this is why I have repo gas burners.  ;D

--louis

Not much that beats Brasso... :)

Mothers billet polish is what i use . I use 000 steel wool first if it has been awhile.Just to knock down the rough stuff.  I follow up with some Meguairs next gen quick detailer to make them really shine.  I wanna try some of that gibbs though.  Id also like to try that next gen wheel polish also. I dont know what Meguairs uses but it shines better than anything !  Also the brasso doesnt work as good as the mothers.  It did however work  better than the mothers on a big old 1920's brass mailbox that  I did. ;D

in europe there is an english polish
Autoglymm metal polish...works well!
but for me in Italy is becoming hard to find it..
however also 3M products works well