Grille restore

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Grille restore

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I was polishing the bumpers on my Coronet 500 and my Imperial rag yesterday. Since I was in a polishing mood, I decided to do the grille on the driver '68 D100. The aluminum grille had serious degradation of the anodizing, so it was very cloudy-looking, as these grilles are want to do over time. For you military vets, I know you have all had the wondrous pleasure of using Brasso at one time or another! I was using this on the chrome, so I figured I'd see if it would do anything on the '68 aluminum grille...

Guess what? The grille shines like a diamond in a goat's a$$! And it took maybe thirty minutes of elbow grease and effort to transform the look from "yeah, it has a grille" to "damn, that thing has a grille!" I was pretty impressed with the results! Honestly, I did not have much thought previously of using this on the grille before, because of the factory anodizing. But it works!

Pics tomorrow - I have a car parked right up to the truck bumper, so I can't get a couple right now.
[b]Patrick - 1969 D300 cab & chassis[/b]

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Re: Grille restore

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Hi, here is another use for brasso, my daughters used SOS on our counter tops and left "hot spots". After trying many products, nothing worked. On a whim, I tried a little Brasso and it took it the hot spot away. I had to do the whole counter top to make it all similar because of the finer grit cleaning and small scratches were also buffed out. Looks like a new counter top. Thanks Brasso
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