Rocker Cover

[GreatOldOne]

I cleaned my rocker cover up last night and then degreased, primed and painted it. It's looking good, but I want to have the raised lettering as polished aluminium, much like Patrick's (and others).

What's the best technique to use on this? I was planning on using some high grit wet'n'dry wrapped round a block to remove the paint on the logo and stripes.

Cheers,

Jason.

[Patrick]

Thats pretty much it,

Wet & Dry (800 grit to start with then move to 1200 grit) the letters until they are nice and smooth. Additionally we used this set to really polish it up: http://www.frost.co.uk/item_Detail.a...olishing%20Kit

Richard did the polishing first, then masked the letters and sprayed the cover (a bit of a clean up and treatment with metal ready first before spraying).

After spraying pulled the mask of while it was still wet and used thinners to clean up over spray.

Finally give it a bit of a polish again. We're using Meguires NTX metal polish to keep it nice and shiny

Spraying first then rubbing the paint off will also work

[MartinClan]

Originally Posted by GreatOldOne

I cleaned my rocker cover up last night and then degreased, primed and painted it. It's looking good, but I want to have the raised lettering as polished aluminium, much like Patrick's (and others).

What's the best technique to use on this? I was planning on using some high grit wet'n'dry wrapped round a block to remove the paint on the logo and stripes.

Cheers,

Jason.

That's exactly what I did. When painting it make sure you use a primer made for ally though, or the paint will not adhere well.

Robin

[GreatOldOne]

Thanks guys!

I used an acid etch primer on the cleaned up ali cover, then used several coats gloss black Hammerite Smooth.