Polishing Front Forks

[Mike]

Hi all,

I have my front forks off the bike right now and would like to polish them up. I have seen where some of you have done this with great results.
Can you share some info on what type of polish, tools and method to achieve these results.

Thanks
Mike

[98valk]

Hi all,

I have my front forks off the bike right now and would like to polish them up. I have seen where some of you have done this with great results.
Can you share some info on what type of polish, tools and method to achieve these results.

Thanks
Mike

search is your friend. 

http://www.valkyrieforum.com/bbs/index.php/topic,12381.0.html

[mirion]

I was fortunate to have a metal lathe at my disposal. There is a layer of plastic on the upper tubes and some fairly deep tool marks. It goes pretty fast on a lathe with emery cloth of varying grits and then the polishing compounds' with an electric buffer. They look like chrome. To do it without spinning it would be difficult. The lowers of course are lots of hand work.

97 Standard wirh Daryls 6 degree tree

[mmurffy03]

i have been wanting to polish mine the work seems to be within my limits but grumpy will do them for $125 plus shipping so i think with his kowhow im going to let him do it and chrome plate the triple trees at the same time grumpy quoted me $100 bucks to polish the rearend housing also dosent sound bad just bolt it back on and BLING

[hubcapsc]

I'm going from memory, but one of the bikes that followed Lisa and the crowd from
Virginia had a chrome cover on the fork uppers... the cover was made for a VTX
I think... the way it was expertly fitted on, I thought it was chrome forks...

I've seen some pictures of Grumpy's polished stuff, he does a good job...

-Mike