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Old Jan 22, 2006 | 08:26 PM
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I finally decided I would ditch my old painted steel charge pipes and bought some aluminum ones from buck.02. I'm really more of a function person by nature so this isn't a big concern for me, but before I put them on the car I thought I'd clean and polish them up a bit.

I started going over one with just some Scotch-Brite which cleaned them up pretty good. The thing that I was wondering about however, was if it was possible to clean up the little divits from where it was clamped to be bent. They really aren't a huge issue like I said before, but if there is a way that they can be polished out fairly easily I'll give it a shot.

So, what do ya think, are they too deep or is there a way too polish them out?





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Old Jan 23, 2006 | 08:47 PM
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Old Jan 23, 2006 | 08:48 PM
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Old Jan 23, 2006 | 09:00 PM
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start sanding..

i would start at like 220 grit and go up in incraments to like 1500 grit then use the polish again..

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Old Jan 24, 2006 | 08:33 AM
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very nice, i'll have to give that a try and see how it goes.
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