Any do's and don'ts on buffing up an aged paint job? I do have some flaking in portions, but I want to give it a polish/buff since it is for sale and make it look nicer without taking off the paint. Planning on using a orbital buffer.

Also, anyone ever polish a spinner? I have a new spinner that was not finished.. ready for paint or polish. Found a couple of people to send it out to with 3-4 week turn arounds.. looking for quicker results.

Thanks,
Travis

Polished lots of spinners, start with sandpaper and sand out all the spinning marks, perpendicular to the lines, then move to a finer paper to remove those lines, then finer again, then polish on a bench grinder with polishing compound and a buffing wheel. Work easy, so as to not build up heat.
It's all finished in less than a day.
Polishing the plane is best done with an air polisher and Mcguiers #1 polish. Works great, and can even be used on lightly crazed plexiglass

side slip wrote:Polished lots of spinners, start with sandpaper and sand out all the spinning marks, perpendicular to the lines, then move to a finer paper to remove those lines, then finer again, then polish on a bench grinder with polishing compound and a buffing wheel. Work easy, so as to not build up heat.
It's all finished in less than a day.
Polishing the plane is best done with an air polisher and Mcguiers #1 polish. Works great, and can even be used on lightly crazed plexiglass

Thanks!