Cleaning steel stains

[travisking544]

Ive tried mothers mag aluminum polish but the steel is steel keeping that dark stain. is there a compound that does not require a buffing wheel?

 

[Kentos]

That polish is pretty aggressive already. Any pics? It might be the stain is too deep for only a polish to remove.

 

[silver]

+ 1. If the polish won't remove it, you might have to go down to some sanding. Pics would help

 

[oakeshott]

I use mother's all the time. It will take a lot of oxidation off, but in a really dirty blade, you're going to get some left behind. Our name for the dirt left behind is "patina". We give it an attractive name like that so we don't have to sand the damn blade for four hours by hand.

I think it was Brad Maggard who had some really helpful restoration videos and in one he uses the Mother's on a blade. What i learned from that is to use about 10x more polishing than I had been doing. He dips the end of the blade into the mothers and spreads a dollop over a polishing rag. The spread is about 8x1 inches. Then he polishes the blade in the rag moving along the length of the spread as he uses up an area. This gets repeated 5 or 6 times. By the last line of Mother's, you should see very little staining from the oxidized metal on your polishing rag. This is how you know you've done all that Mother can do.

 

[SunLocke]

I once went sanding and it ruined my whole steel. I guess it was the fault of that faulty sand paper. But nevertheless wish that the stains get removed by mother, or else you are going to need some luck there. boca raton oil change

 

[Slash McCoy]

Try red paste. Or .1u diamond paste.

 

[oakeshott]

Slash,
Do you have a link to where you buy your Diamond Paste? Also, when you say .1u, is that 1 Micron?

thanks,
mark

 

[Slash McCoy]

no, .1u is 1/10 micron. 1 micron, or 1u ("µ" is the actual symbol but the lower case letter "u" is the common internet substitution since it is right there on the keyboard and so very similar) would be a little coarse for just polishing off a stain.

www.tedpella.com is where I get mine.

 

[oakeshott]

Thanks for the link and education

 

[travisking544]

Thank you all for the help.