Miata Mailing List: June 1997, Message #86
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From: 	Bob Krueger <voodoo@miata.net>

Subject: Re: polishing voodoo knob

Date: 	Mon, 2 Jun 1997 13:04:03 -0500



At 00:21 -0800 6-2-97, A.S. Chang wrote:

>I need help.	Yesterday, I tried to polish my voodoo knob with

>EagleOne MAG wheel cleaner, but my "not-so-shiny" knob turned into a

>very dull looking ball.  :(  What did I do wrong??  Is there a way to

>bring my shiny voodoo knob back to life again??



Hmmm...



I've never used Eagle brand products myself, but I have used Meguiar's #29

Mag Wheel Polish and it works just fine. Takes a bit of elbow grease, mind

you, but it works. That's the mag wheel POLISH, by the way, the one

intended to polish bare aluminum, not the mag wheel CLEANER that's intended

for clearcoated wheels. My good friend JT prefers Mother's brand of same,

saying that it's finer - more the consistency of cold cream - and therefore

produces a better shine, although requiring even a bit more of that old

elbow grease. I've seen his after he polishes it and it looks better than

new, so I know it works.



I've even used jewelry cloths and a variation on that theme that we used to

use on our buckles in the Marine Corps called a Blitz Cloth. This is

basically a rag impregnated with polish. It gets your hands all blue, but

it also works. It can take a bit of time and effort, but I took the very

first prototype knob up from just off the lathe to a polish roughly the

equivalent of today's professionally-polished knobs BY HAND with one of

those. It wasn't easy, it took several hours, but it can be done. The

biggest problem is finding a way to hold on to the damn thing while getting

an even polish on all parts of the surface.



I guess my first recommendation would be the Mother's Mag Wheel POLISH.

It's just an aluminum sphere, and therefore pretty hard to completely ruin,

so I would say you can definitely bring it back to life with the right

product and a little work.



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Team Voodoo proprietor

San Diego Miata Club

Age & Treachery Racing, Ltd.

http://mmdshare.ucsd.edu/voodoo.html

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