Best stainless polishing compound

bry1975 said:
I sure will Nemesis.

I've tried quite a lot tricks and new bits of kit in the past, always seems the older methods work best. Don't think much to those embedded abrasive silicon points that some guys use. The older Felt points and Bobs seem better. By the way that's my custom stainless pressure tester:-

Basically dunk the watch in the chamber and can pressure test down to like 3 Kilometres.

Sure wanna buy myself a kiln one day and start forging tools.

Regs

Bry
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That is awesome! Have it machined or is it a modified part? As far as making your own tools, I recently got a wild hair and wanted to do the same. I saw this guy on youtube doing it this way and have started setting up as he did. I did send him over here to the forums so hopefully he might chime in if he sees this. Anyhow, it's crude but works great it seems, atleast for the knives :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6yiBqgzrJM
 
Nemesis,

I basically sent a billet of 303 stainless steel to the machinists. 0riginal size was 5inch diameter by 140mm length, she weighed around 14kilos or 30pounds, post woman thought I was crazy shipping that.

Would've preferred to machine my own chamber but didn't have a larger enough lathe.

The wall thickness is 32mm so pretty heavy duty. Top plate being 20mm thick with Grade 12.9 M14 bolts.


Nice one good to hear people getting inspiration from you tube.

There's my chamber in use:-
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oVKRM97jmLc

The Casio tested actually survived 1000metres pressure depth or 100Kg/cm2
 
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Thanks, I have always had better results at slower speeds, too. Just wanted to confirm with you since your greater experience makes you, err, a more polished authority. ;)
 
I've always had good results with Mothers metal polish (found in your local auto parts store) as a finish polish. Decently quick, but leaves a nice mirror finish (I've even used it on old safety glasses!).
 
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