Polishing Aluminium Caravans

An instructional video on polishing vintage aluminium caravans such as Caraparks, Airstreams etc. Steve from Vintage Food Vans demonstrates step by step how to get the perfect shine on your vintage aluminium carvan.
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[@danielfar1564]

Hey Steve nice job

[@VintageRestorationsAustralia]

Thanks

[@666Tagada]

Great video...Cheers!

[@VintageRestorationsAustralia]

Thanks Peter, hope it helps you out ;-)

[@cassiellightman]

vintage style, no doubt about it. thanks for the video.

[@VintageRestorationsAustralia]

You're very welcome :-)

[@jimmyontharoof]

How often do you change the mop and do you use a different mop for each color of compound?cheers!

[@VintageRestorationsAustralia]

I keep a seperate mop for each colour and clean them with a 'rake' (like a stiff wire brush) and keep using them till the wear out.

[@jimmyontharoof]

@Vintage Restorations Australia thanks for the tips.. about to start on a 74 oxford crusader

[@Juliaronan]

Nice job! Looks like A LOT of work!!!

[@cassiellightman]

it's a lot of work, hey charge 100 bucks ateast per line foot.

[@VintageRestorationsAustralia]

Ha, we don't charge that as we only polish our own.

[@danielfar1564]

Hi Steve I’m finding hard to find the polishing weels I’ve got a 20 foot pmg van with the artilated front weels it was a shower block

[@VintageRestorationsAustralia]

Most metals shops carry them, if all else fails try bunnings

[@kimberleyford5208]

Hi where can we source all of those products please

[@VintageRestorationsAustralia]

I order online as we live in a regional area.

[@pradolover]

Any reason you couldn't do this on an alloy bullbar?

[@VintageRestorationsAustralia]

No

[@Stevie6636]

🍃😜🍃Nice! So for something that size we’re looking at around 150 /200 hrs. Shit! Got my work cut out when that day arrives..

[@VintageRestorationsAustralia]

Given we have polished over a dozen, we are pretty fast at it :-)

[@chadfarneti]

What is the purple polish?

[@VintageRestorationsAustralia]

it is actually a product called "Purple Polish" it is a fine cutting compound like car polish but specifically for alumimium.

[@rocknroll1950]

clear coat once polished?

[@VintageRestorationsAustralia]

No just a light hand polish once a year with the purple polish. The clear coats are very hard to remove when they start to break down.

[@cassiellightman]

that's aluminum, not paint. only paint has a clear coat.

[@kevinorawe4599]

Cassiel Ligthman Not true, early Airstreams have clear coat that develops a white worm-like “stain” over time.

[@عادلالفتلاويالفتلاوي]

بدي سلفرادو مشاهد

[@VintageRestorationsAustralia]

Don't we all :-)

[@barrybarry5803]

12 weeks later...

[@VintageRestorationsAustralia]

You're not doing it right if it took 12 weeks Barry

[@barrybarry5803]

@@VintageRestorationsAustralia ~ My sarcastic humour!... but i have done several alloy car rims in the past and it's a lot of elbow grease breaking through the dull!!!