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I have decided to clean up the alloy lower front forks. I usually get them polished to look pretty.

This time I am going to have a crack at linishing and then hit them with non-yellowing clear lacquer.

Here they are now ~

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RegardZ.

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I'd just wet and dry them, mop polish and use an alloy polish to finish (I prefer Peeks)

mine have been great for 6 years and still look good

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Drewpy, thanks for your comment. I usually have the fork bottoms polished, however, I thought I would try and see if I can get that original finish.

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This first photo is the lower front fork of a Kawaski Z1,,, Polished.

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The seond photo is of the Yamaha Zeal .... Linished finish (stage one).

This was done very carefully on a bench-grinder linishing attachment using that pot scourer type belt.

I still have to "hand finish" by standing upright in a soft jaw vice and with a long piece of "3M" pot scourer work backward and forwards to get the desired finish.

I was surprised how good the "scourer" belt performed.... No groove or ripples. Stage two will tell me how well I've done, then (stage three), the POR "Glisten"...

the non-yellowing clear coat.

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Just in case some of you haven't seen the grinder attachment mentioned above, this is it!

RegardZ.

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Very nice. :)

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