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csayce

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Oh, you don't need to repaint it at all - just strip off the finish you don't like, either chemically or using a bit of sandpaper. Some of the most sought after ones are TRA (tumbled raw aluminium) and every Reo looks like that underneath.

I do recommend you get yourself verified, because now and then you can pick up a bargain in the classifieds here - the odd occasion where someone decides they have too many Reos and want to sell one (??) and so on.




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Thank you for the advice I've just applied to get verified so that I can access the classified section of the forum now nothing left but to hurry up and wait.


I will own a Reo one day I'm getting tired of the Firebox I'm using now it's a good little device and has always performed but I want a better squonker I was in talks with a modder to have a custom built for me but just as we were getting the design right he said he was to busy with back orders so now rather than go through all that again I might just as well buy a mod with a good rep and be happy instead of passing message after message back and forth just to fall down at the end of it I was really bummed out too. Oh well such is life.
 

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Looking pretty slick, brother. What technique are you using?

The back and sides look a lot better they have about 6 times as many polishing "runs" on them, I can almost use them as a mirror. The door just has a few polishes on it maybe 3. Doing it mostly by hand and a little here and there with a dremel mini/polishing wheel on it. Using Chemical Guys metal polish, but I am going to take it to the shop this weekend and use an orbital on it to finish it up.

Hope to have it looking more like chrome than aluminum by the time I am done, just in time for my Dready Mod door that is on the way for it. That's kind of why I didn't do a whole lot on this door just yet. I eventually will get it really good and put it on my Silver Vein.
 

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The back and sides look a lot better they have about 6 times as many polishing "runs" on them, I can almost use them as a mirror. The door just has a few polishes on it maybe 3. Doing it mostly by hand and a little here and there with a dremel mini/polishing wheel on it. Using Chemical Guys metal polish, but I am going to take it to the shop this weekend and use an orbital on it to finish it up.

Hope to have it looking more like chrome than aluminum by the time I am done, just in time for my Dready Mod door that is on the way for it. That's kind of why I didn't do a whole lot on this door just yet. I eventually will get it really good and put it on my Silver Vein.

you've got to get through the anodized layer before it'll really shine evenly. Start with about 120 grade sandpaper and work to finer and finer paper before you polish. It'll save you lots of time. I think you can remove the layer chemically too.
 
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