Refurbishing S8 mirrors

[Jake242]

Originally Posted by 47p2

Looking good.

Keep the sanding in as straight a line as possible, then when you move to the next grade sand at 90 degrees to the lines on the cover, then go 90 degrees again etc.

What this does is remove the last lot of lines made by the wet & dry, because it is done at 90 degrees it doesn't open the groves but flattens them down, sounds a bit crazy but it works

Remember
400
1200
2000
Then polish

Sounds like good advise:-)

Im using
80
120
240
500 wet
800 wet
1200 wet
and 2000 wet

then hand polished with autosol

I had to go 80 to get the bad stone-chips away... I'm down to bare aluminium now... but need to grain up again to get some of the scratches the bigger grain sandpaper did

I will see if I can find a place to anodize them.... £225 and probably +20 hours of manual labour.... not gonna skip on the finish

/Jake