Best Chrome Polish?

[BKBridges]

I was cleaning out my shed yesterday and my old 64 chrome CB77 is now seeing the light of day. Its been dragged around Socal with me since I was 16. The chrome is looking pretty shabby these days. Does anyone have a good product recommendation or recipe for chrome polishing? Theres a lot of site corrosion "bleed" that is tough to get through. I tried CLR and my grandfathers old chrome polish "homebrew" with OK results, but Im out of my grandfathers polish now...

[DanStokes]

Back in my youth folks swore by Brasso. Not sure if it's been superseded.

Dan

[JOES66FURY]

Never Dull

[BKBridges]

Never Dull

A great name for a polish! Ill go look for some. The old Honda chrome is hanging tough under the rust for the most part.
BKB

[Deaf Bob]

Turtle Wax chrome polish and rust remover..

[DanStokes]

Is Never Dull the magic wadding type stuff? Sort of a treated cotton ball? I know guys who love that stuff.

Dan

[JOES66FURY]

Is Never Dull the magic wadding type stuff? Sort of a treated cotton ball? I know guys who love that stuff.

Dan

Yes, anyone who ever went thru USAF basic training learned about neverdull. It takes off water spots too. I use it for the wifes bike and it works well on heavily tarnished metals...silver, gold, chrome, brass....I am a big fan.

BK, here is the stuff http://www.nevrdull.com/

its about 10 bucks for a can, Autozone carries it...atlease around here they do...

[squirrel]

the last chrome I worked on a few days ago, was an old Holley fuel filter canister...it was pretty rough...I used coarse steel wool to get rid of most of the rust. And a screwdriver to scrape off the thick stuff in the corners.

It's been my experience that if you have rust coming thru, then you don't need to bother with the brasso/nevrdull/polish type stuff because it's never going to look very nice until you get it replated. Use rubbing compound or pretty much any coarse compound, and that's probably as good as it's ever going to look.

[silver_bullet]

i was just going to mention Meguiars Mirror Glaze #5 compund... I believe that it was the tan colored stuff... haven't used it in 30 years tho...

[BKBridges]

Thanks for all the good advice! Ive had to attack the rustier parts with steel wool and my fingernail, but Im going to go out after work and get a few different recommended polishes to see what happens. Working on this bike really stirs up old memories since I bought it when I was in Junior high...I was told over the weekend that its one of 6 known factory chrome Honda cb77s. Its missing a lot of the OG chrome (tank, fork covers, side cases) but that's the way I bought it back in the day. Makes a cool café racer though...Heres a good pic of one http://www.bikeexif.com/honda-cb77-cafe-racer done up to the extreme (non Chrome)

[Whelk]

Yes, anyone who ever went thru USAF basic training learned about neverdull. It takes off water spots too. I use it for the wifes bike and it works well on heavily tarnished metals...silver, gold, chrome, brass....I am a big fan.

BK, here is the stuff http://www.nevrdull.com/

its about 10 bucks for a can, Autozone carries it...atlease around here they do...

We swore by this stuff in the Navy too.

[Scott Liggett]

If you can't find Neverdull. Use a SOS pad, that has soap in it. It will clean up the oxidation, cut back the rust bleed, then I use Blue Magic polish. The soap in the SOS pad will keep it from scratching the chrome. It's how I make my cars look good.....on camera.

[JOES66FURY]

Honetly, looking a the chrome on that from, Scotts right...might even try some 000 or 0000 steel wool with some metal polish on it....Ive done that to some old nasty, rusty chrome with good results...

[dulcich]

I don't think it will polish out. Depends on how good you expect, but looks too far gone. I would not do it by hand; some polishing buff drums in a h/d die grinder and turtle wax chrome sauce is going to do the best job.

[Karberator]

Honetly, looking a the chrome on that from, Scotts right...might even try some 000 or 0000 steel wool with some metal polish on it....Ive done that to some old nasty, rusty chrome with good results...

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