Polishing Aluminum Tank

White Lighting at Autozone and a lot of rags and some good old fashioned elbow grease will work every time.

 

the only way I got the spots off of my fuel tanks was to sand them down and then polish them out.

 

What grit did you start and end with?

 

180 and worked my way up to 2000 and then used the brown rouge bar and then the green one and then white bar its alot of work but it looks really good for about 6 weeks and then polish again.

 

Lots of pitting. Started with 36 grit and went to 800. Then run 3 diffrent wheels to a mirror shine. These tanks are 17 years old running in the Midwest.

 

Dang you do good work @Tug Toy! Looks great! It is very hard work but rewarding in the end!

 

Mine didn't come out quite as good. I started with 180 grit. Then 360 and finally 600. Then the heavy cutting wheel with black rouge, primary cutting wheel with brown trupoli. Secondary cutting with the green rouge and finally a flannel wheel with the white. Then hand polished with the zephyr 40.

Not sure what to do with the chrome grill surround. Not sure there is even anything to do besides but a new one. It isn't peeling but its got what can only be described as brown spots burnt into it.

 

And where did you get that electric palm sander? I could only find air ones so settled for a 6 inch oscillating at lowes. But its huge and impossible to get between the top and ends of the tank.