How To Sand and Polish Stainless Steel By Hand

In this exciting video, we learn how to sand and polish stainless steel to a mirror finish by hand without power tools.

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[gyratethis]

Great video. I like the way it's edited. Quick and to the point

[robinhodgkinson]

A couple of tips: 1. It's flat - use a sanding block - much quicker and efficient. 2. Wipe off the slurry before you change grits, otherwise you're still grinding in the larger residual grit while trying to remove those coarser scratches with the next finer paper - slowing down the process. 3. Make sure you've obliterated all of the previous size cut on the stainless with the current paper, before moving to the next finer grit, otherwise the next finer grit is trying to remove scratches from the paper used two grits back - which will require double the effort.

[TRlTON]

I’m so used to farming with fudd videos and that intro immediately reminded me of it

[richardbouska]

Thank you so much this video was so helpful, I am trying to take some scratches out and polish a copper piece and I don't have any tools just going to do by hand and this video answered all my questions thank you so much for sharing this video, I really appreciate it buddy! Many thanks, Cheers! 🍻🍻🍻🍻

[StuffUCanMake]

This is a good video! Thanks so much for sharing.

[vLife]

Wow.. Does polished aluminum and stainless reflect more sun and heat better? How long it stay in like a mirror-like finish in direct southern Sun and Tropic elements? If not long how often you have to maintain?I have some spots on the roof of my van I'd like to stop the sun from cooking to keep the inside cooler.

[ollieb]

Thanks for this.. I was concerned about the results I was getting with 2500 grit, of course I realise now it's not nearly high enough and I need some of that polish as well.

[Nichols]

Would water work in place of the Alumicut?

[mrdavidurquhart]

thanks for making this great series of videos

[cleangoblin]

Great. I have two water jugs and i like them both but looking old now as paint chipped.
Gonna give it a mirror shine

[jazzman]

Is this the same techniques for scratch removal on stainless steel appliances?

[andrewsauter]

Thank you for this. I have 3 small pc fan grill guards that are not really worth investing the money into the correct power tools to polish them. So this was very helpful in figuring out what I need to do it by hand. Pretty much sandpaper, a small bottle of alumicut and polish. Awesome, I can get these looking better than when they were new.

edit: so I was looking at alumicut which I can only get in gallons here. Googling around it sounds like I could also use WD-40? Is that an ok substitute or are there reasons I should avoid using it over alumicut?

[DallyLama_EN]

Can you use wd40 or some oil for lubricant?

[srlim]

Are you able to say approximately how long that piece of metal took? And is it important to sand with the grain at all?

[joemoss]

Nice! To maximize the shine, should I sand in the same direction with each successive sandpaper or would I alternate the direction? Thanks again!

[spaghetti]

end result you can clearly see lots of scratches in it? sure its shiny but how do get rid of the scratches?

[imagohardinmyln]

I have some rims that I’m attempting to do this to the lips. I could use some pointers! I’ve got some shine into them but not the mirror effect. Is it possible to send you some pics of my progress?

[zjgst]

Cool I will have to try this. Thank you for great videos 😄👍🏽🍺

[philldownes]

you got a nice fuinish, But you should wipe away all the dirt, grit and crap off the piece when changing grits or your not getting the full effect of the next grade. i.e if you using 1000 grit and then switch to 150 you still have a lot of the 1000 grit left on the you never get away with none of the grit being left on the surface. so should be well rinsed off between each also what was the finish surface on this before you started ? 500 grade or more/less ?

[atulanand]

Hi I would like to ask you to make this into a concave mirror for telescope. The advantage will be it made if easily available material and no extra coating will be required