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Originally Posted by NomadKitchen
Hey all!
I'm about to buy a trailer and want to it to be so shiny i can see myself PERFECTLY! It has been sanded (prepped for a paint job that didn't happen). It is a great price and at a great location, but i want to know whether the sanding will make it harder (or impossible) to get as shiny as i want it (blindingly).
thanks,
Simon
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Simon, there's a few of us here who have stepped up to the plate and, actually spend hundreds of hours sweating and, felt the pain of hard labor by polishing their Airstream.~
Let me say this.. You can polish your Airstream if you are willing to put forth the effort and, stick with it. The compounding polish efforts ahead of you will be long and, not easy. You will need to learn to listen to the Aluminum skin talk to you as you polish. There's no easy approach. You will have to be the complete master of every learning step. Trust me, every step of the way you will learn something new and, learn well, you will.
Looking at your picture of the unit. I just have one question.
Do you know or did you ask, had this unit been given an acid bath? It makes a world of differences if it had and, for how long as well. If it hasn't then, great..Don't~!
First thing...go to this website..and READ..
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take a few long days off to do some heavy reading..do your research on polishing.. There's a lot of great info available, both here on the forum and, elsewhere about the efforts and the final results.
I did mine about 5 yrs ago and, then it cost about 600$ for everything I needed. Your biggest cost is gonna be the Cyclo polisher. You will need it for the final stages of polishing~! Second biggest cost is gonna be the compound polisher that you buy. I got mine from Sears..got a free bag to store it and all the polishing compounds in..Third biggest cost is the polishing compounds.. Get the best~! Prefectpolish is a great place to shop.
http://www.perfectpolish.com/
As I said in the beginning, you can polish this baby.. because of your trailer's situation, you will be needing to put some extra efforts into the process. Just be aware of your temperature on a daily basis. You want it to be in the high 60's and, not in the direct sunshine. In the end, you will have a near perfect shine.. maybe better, depends on you.
One last thing, once you get started, don't hesitant to ask for good advise.
There are quite a few of us on here who have polished (some more than once) that will be only too happy to help you..
I wish for you, a great time..
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