Polishing brushed stainless steel

[cwd500]

I am wanting to polish some brush ss to a high shine with no grain marks in it. It's not a gun, its a yeti cup. What grit should I start with and finish with? Then I'll use some mothers polish.

 

[cwd500]

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[Hapworth]

You can start and end with the Mother's Mag polish and some elbow grease -- anything more abrasive will just cause scratching and frosting you'll have to polish out later.

 

[Jim R]

I use a product called Flash. It is the reddish-Pink one. They sell it on Amazon or at auto paint stores. The stuff is amazing.

The black build up that you get on the front of a Stainless Steel cylinder with Flash and a old tooth brush it can be removed in a couple of minutes.

It is great for polishing mag wheels to silver belt buckles. I used it to polish out SS Ruger last year, when I got done it looked like chrome.

If you can't find it PM me and I will send you a link.

 

[cwd500]

You can start and end with the Mother's Mag polish and some elbow grease -- anything more abrasive will just cause scratching and frosting you'll have to polish out later.

So you don't have to sand the brush out of the ss

 

[Hapworth]

So you don't have to sand the brush out of the ss

If you sand it, you'll be increasing the brush; to bring brush to mirror shine, you need a polish that it with slightly less aggressive than the media used to create the brushed look, then use increasingly finer polish from there.