Spent about an hour with steel wool and polish yesterday on my 50' Buick teeth. The bottom was pretty bad and rusted. This grill is all original 60 years old, never been re-chromed, pretty amazing!
Have also had good results with steel wool on chrome and stainless.Good old dupont rubbing compound ,followed by the white ploishing compound and lots of elbow grease works well to.The grill came out nice ,and a 50 grill is the best looking one that Buick ever made IMO ...
Nice work! I feel your pain, I recently did the grill and bumper on my cadillac... recruited my old man and it still took 3 hours and a case of beer. My fingers hurt for 3 days after that!
That came out great. Nice toothy grin on that '50. FYI only, be cautious when using steel wool on stainless. For some reason it leaves tiny little pieces of the steel wool embedded in the surface that will quickly rust. Ask me how I know.
It does the same for chrome as well, once the steel wool has been used it's pretty much game over for metal surfaces. You always need to polish with something that is softer than the metal surface, that's why I like to use paint buffing compound.
I use 00000 steel wool dipped in reducer and follow up with polish on a rag/sponge. I haven't had any problems with rust on anything that wasn't rusted already. Works great to clean a windshield, too.
Auto Restoration Tip #643- If you switch to twist off bottles your fingers won't hurt from opening cans!
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