Recent content by Dirty-mik3

I've polished lots and lots of aluminum and have a nice collection of buffs and airways, as well as compounds. In the bottom of my post I listed my method which included a D/A up to 400. This part has a few small facets that require lots of hand work, the only reason for posting this is for...

I've actually already tried buffing and it just seems to "smear" the low spots out depending on the direction of the buff rotation, and doesn't clean up the overall finish at all. At this point I don't think any combination of material removal or blending will solve the infinite low spot problem.

There's a couple of spots on the lower half of the part that I had to cut much deeper to get rid of casting flaws, and the porosity is unfortunately throughout the part regardless of depth. If you look closely to where the "engine ID tag" is in the first picture you can get an idea of how much...

I'm hoping that some of the restoration guys on here would be able to help me out since they've got some serious hours behind buffers. I'm having a terrible time polishing out a poorly cast aluminum timing case for my cummins engine build. Has anyone here had success with fixing porosity issues...

I was having a very difficult time navigating Snap-On's website while trying to figure out what options are available for what ratchets / tools, so I decided to whip up a little cheat sheet for what models exist with what options. There's a few things I left out, like the 3/8" drive PALMRAT...

I'm honestly all over the place. Metric: + drivers are exclusively Vessel (full set of super cushion gel, and megadora impacta's for stuck fasteners only) - drivers are mostly PB Swiss & Wiha SAE: + drivers are mostly Felo (ergonic) & Matco (top torque II) - drivers are mostly Felo (ergonic)...