Polished doors

[lizardnipples]

I know that I'm new to this community, heck, I'm still waiting for my Grand to get here! But, I've read a lot of posts and threads in the meantime and it seems that there is at least one post in every thread that wants Rob to polish doors. I would love to have a polished door too! So, since Rob I'm sure is super busy and doesn't have the time it takes to supply the demand of polished doors/REOs to REO nation it would be great to have a How To for those of us that could do it ourselves.

Rob, would you be willing to provide a quick How to polish a REO?

 

[nerak]

I can tell you how some have polished their REO's.

I bought one that started as a tumbled and ended up with a high polish.

He used Mother's Mag Polish. Just with a cloth. I was told that you go through lots of cloths. You need to keep using a clean spot to wipe off the polish.

Was told it took him about 4 hours to get it all done.

I picked up a couple REO's with polish doors and worked on them. It didn't take much to get that mirror finish.

You can use a polisher or rotary polish brush but must be careful not to apply too much pressure. It causes swirls.

Now let's see what Robert, the master, says!

 

[lizardnipples]

Yeah, that would be easy enough. I was wondering what the best way to get the powder coating off would be.

 

[nerak]

Yeah, that would be easy enough. I was wondering what the best way to get the powder coating off would be.

You just buy a tumbled, no finish. If you want the whole REO they are usually on site. If you want just a door he has provided them too when asked. They are smooth as satin, ready for polishing!

 

[Della Cirque]

+1 for Mother's Mag & lots of polishing cloth. I'm almost finished polishing one and it is easier than I expected.
Wax on, wax off and buff, buff, buff.

 

[Justice]

I used a polish wheel on my dremel with a good metal polish and it took maybe an hour tops to do the whole mod its quite easy

 

[redeyedancer]

I use a polishing wheel with buffing compound and finish them off with mothers mag aluminum polish

 

[mzsazri]

Work in progress with my mini 2.0

 

[lizardnipples]

I didn't buy a tumbled grand because they weren't available on the site at the time I bought mine. I have a black and silver, I'd only want to polish the door for now. What would be the best way to get through the coating? Ultra fine grit sandpaper?

 

[lizardnipples]

Sorry if I'm asking too many questions, all of the suggestions are great and I will definitely try them. I just don't want to ruin the door on my brand spankin' new Reo. I haven't even seen it yet, I can only dream about it until it gets here.

 

[Justice]

Sorry if I'm asking too many questions, all of the suggestions are great and I will definitely try them. I just don't want to ruin the door on my brand spankin' new Reo. I haven't even seen it yet, I can only dream about it until it gets here.

Id suggest just buying a tumbled door and polish it. If none on the site Give Rob Redeyedancer on the forum a pm and see if he may be having some soon then you'd have 2 doors

 

[redeyedancer]

I am with Darrel if you need a tumbled door I have plenty of them

 

[lizardnipples]

Thanks Rob, I'll do that.

 

[Ratman]

I bought a tumbled door from rob for my Grand to polish. It didn't work.

Problem is I like the tumbled look so well I haven't done it. So umm.. My 2 cents is get a two of the tumbled ones and polish one of them.

Maybe I should add another blem tumbled to my ever growing order.

Knock, knock, knock. Umm Mr. O'Niell, sorry to bother you AGAIN Sir, but I may ned to adjust my order AGAIN.

 

[Della Cirque]

Knock, knock, knock. Umm Mr. O'Niell, sorry to bother you AGAIN Sir, but I may ned to adjust my order AGAIN.

I've sent a message or two like that.

 

[Ratman]

I got bored and gave mine a shot. Needs a little more quality time with the polishing rag but not bad so far.