{"id":2522,"date":"2018-08-31T02:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-08-31T10:28:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T17:28:25","slug":"simichrome-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/simichrome-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Simichrome Metal Polish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0002YUQ4E\/cooltools-20\">Simichrome cream polish<\/a> )$9) for a couple of years to get a mirror polish on all the vintage bicycles I collect. Before discovering it on a listserv about classic bikes, I tried various buffing and polishing compounds (usually automotive) and Nev&#8217;r Dull, which worked fine but requires a lot of effort. <\/p>\n<p>Simichrome seems to work magically, with very little elbow grease needed to dissolve\/remove surface stains and oxidation (the main ingredient is aluminum oxide). The results are astounding. I&#8217;ve used it primarily on aluminum, and a few chrome pieces. In my experience it works best on aluminum. Recently, I revived a set of oxidized aluminum cranks in under an hour all told &#8212; sanding and steel wool to remove scratches and then less than 10 minutes (and minimal effort) polishing with the Simichrome. For aluminum parts that don&#8217;t need scratches sanded out it takes about 30 seconds to watch a small section go from dull, oxidized metal to mirror finish (that&#8217;s not hyperbole). Of course it depends a bit on the finish of the underlying metal, how big and complicated the part is and so on. I&#8217;ve tested it on brass, and though it wasn&#8217;t as easy on that as it was the aluminum, Simichrome was still much quicker than anything I&#8217;d used before (Turtle Wax, buffing compound, Ajax, steel wool).<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superior polish for aluminum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[701,1010],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32111,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/32111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}