Author Topic: Ball Burnished Ripper advice (Read 1700 times)

Taipan · « **on:** October 24, 2018, 03:52 PM »

How do I clean up and polish a ball burnished ripper? Its been stuck in a lock up for years and looks what is like a Haze all over it? I have lightly gone over an area with very fine wire wool and it is shifting leaving underneath a pretty good shine,but this is gonna take an age to do

anyone ever cleaned up one before? lmk any tricks of the trade you've used please

hotdog · « **Reply #1 on:** October 24, 2018, 04:41 PM »

Mine had been in a shed in Alabama for years and was covered in oxide particles. I gave it a SUPER-LIGHT clean with some Mother's Aluminum polish and it was spot-on after that. It still had the original downtube decals on it so I used the aluminium under the decal as a reference point.
Good luck and get some photos up.

Taipan · « **Reply #2 on:** October 24, 2018, 05:22 PM »

thx fella I'll get on the net for some mothers'

griff · « **Reply #3 on:** October 25, 2018, 10:41 AM »

polishing alone won't get you that 'ball-burnished' look again - you could end up just polishing it away (so go easy)
there was a thread somewhere about a guy who apparently could redo this finish but I think he was based in US or Oz