I have been reading the bits about polishing and wanted to put my two cents in. When I polished my 61 Tradewind 3 yrs ago, I tried everything, which seems to be normal operating proceedure. For polishing and lasting the Rolite seemed to work the best. I found it at the Oshkosh Airshow for airplane use. I did a few areas with other polishes to begin with but the areas done with Rolite held up the longest. One thing I tried was an acid wash, it was specifically made for aluminum, I believe the acid name started with an f but I cannot remember the name. I know it smelled exactly like an acid that was sold for use in pleping metals for soldering. My trailer had a lot of oxidation, the acid attacked it and turned it very bright silver. I think it helped to get the oxidation off with the acid but it still required many hours of polishing. Now after 3yrs I need to go over it again to remove the cloudiness, I am wondering if it would be worthwile to use the acid again? Has anyone had experience with it on shiny aluminum? I know it is the same thing used to clean aluminum semis. Also when I was polishing originally, I compared a section of the roof that was polished to an unpolished section next to it and there was a tremendous head difference sitting in the Texas sun in summer. Phil ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
