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just messing with cha, need to match this, black will not work :blink:

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Is that a tank, a wrap or an area rug??? :vapor:
 

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I always suspected the polished finishes would be more prone to scratches

The chrome & polished are very different finishes. Chrome is a coating. It doesn't hold up very well at all. The polished isn't a coating. It's just the bare metal sanded to a high grit & buffed out with a compound. It holds up very, very, very well. That's why the chrome Provari's were discontinued a long time ago. I have 2 of the polished ones & they're awesome.

Regarding the polishing, pretty much any buffing compound made for stainless will work. I used the hard compound sold by Dremel to polish one of my KFL's to a mirror shine.
 

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The chrome & polished are very different finishes. Chrome is a coating. It doesn't hold up very well at all. The polished isn't a coating. It's just the bare metal sanded to a high grit & buffed out with a compound. It holds up very, very, very well. That's why the chrome Provari's were discontinued a long time ago. I have 2 of the polished ones & they're awesome.

Regarding the polishing, pretty much any buffing compound made for stainless will work. I used the hard compound sold by Dremel to polish one of my KFL's to a mirror shine.

Cool!!! Thank you;
Should work ok by hand right?
I don't have a dremmel
 

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Cool!!! Thank you;
Should work ok by hand right?
I don't have a dremmel

I didn't use the Dremel, I just had some of their compound laying around from one of those sets of attachments they sell where you only ever find uses for half of the crap in it. I'm a woodturner by trade, so I did mine on a lathe. I suppose you could do it by hand, but it's going to take a whole lot of time, even with good technique. Personally I wouldn't try it.
 

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Mornin' fleur! View attachment 350782 (again. :D)
Had to go work. Then missed lunch, so I came home.

I decided I needed a new shiny, too. So I bought a Goldie to go with the Black Russian I just got from the classies.

Now I need to learn to make coils.:?: So I can use all these drippers. Time to go research. Catch ya'll later. :vapor:
 

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Had to go work. Then missed lunch, so I came home.

I decided I needed a new shiny, too. So I bought a Goldie to go with the Black Russian I just got from the classies.

Now I need to learn to make coils.:?: So I can use all these drippers. Time to go research. Catch ya'll later. :vapor:

Congrats!!!!!
 

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The chrome & polished are very different finishes. Chrome is a coating. It doesn't hold up very well at all. The polished isn't a coating. It's just the bare metal sanded to a high grit & buffed out with a compound. It holds up very, very, very well. That's why the chrome Provari's were discontinued a long time ago. I have 2 of the polished ones & they're awesome.

Regarding the polishing, pretty much any buffing compound made for stainless will work. I used the hard compound sold by Dremel to polish one of my KFL's to a mirror shine.

Well, thank you Ozwald! :toast:
 

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The chrome & polished are very different finishes. Chrome is a coating. It doesn't hold up very well at all. The polished isn't a coating. It's just the bare metal sanded to a high grit & buffed out with a compound. It holds up very, very, very well. That's why the chrome Provari's were discontinued a long time ago. I have 2 of the polished ones & they're awesome.

Regarding the polishing, pretty much any buffing compound made for stainless will work. I used the hard compound sold by Dremel to polish one of my KFL's to a mirror shine.

Good info, Oz
 
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