Mirror Polish
Mirror Polish
How can I polish sheet metal?
I crafted some small (2 inch x 4 inch) insignia plates out of sheet metal for a Cosplay. I would like to polish them to a mirror-like finish.
What is the best technique to shine them up?
In school they gave us an aluminum block and we used differents grits of sand paper, starting from a rough say 400 or 600 and wet sanding it dipping in water and sanding the block in circles across the metal, then work way up gradually to a finer grit, to a very fine grit using the wet sanding this would take off the scratches and then use a polish on it to polish it up with a soft pad. Takes awhile but does get a good finish I imagine it is probably a poor mans way of doing it. If you got the tools I would go with a power tool method of some sort, maybe a dremel I believe they have buffing wheels for it
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