Check the Eastwood catalog or perhaps their website. A buffing wheel is perhaps 6 or 8 inches in diameter, maybe 1/2 to 1 inch wide, and composed of many layers of cottom stitched together. You rotate it a a high speed and apply jeweler's rouge which is an extremely mild abrasive. This is pretty much the standard technique for polishing a wide variety of materials to extremely smooth surfaces and is what a commercial refinisher of stainless steel trim would use, though in a truly professional environment the user would have a variety of grades of abrasive and work his way towards the finest.

Check out Eastwood - they specialize in supplying these materials to the amateur.

We use #1000 steel wool here at the shop. Seems to polish & clean stainless & chrome pretty well.

Thanks, Owen. Please explain like I know nothing. I have a drill. What type of buffing wheel? Also, what is jeweler's rouge? Any other product that would be a name-brand, on-the-shelf thing at Wal-Mart or Autozone?

Far better use use a buffing wheel and a little jeweler's rouge.

My painter/body mentor says I can buff out tiny, little, rough specks off my chrome with an SOS pad, followed by a polish with Mother's. I worry that SOS pads will leave scuff marks that won't come out. He says it will scuff, but that Mother's will remove all that and buff to a shine. Agreed?

Excellent to hear Chuck. I look forward to meeting you. Hopefully everyone else that mentioned coming earlier are still going to attend. If so it will be a mini-PackardInfo.com meet inside the larger PI meet.

I heard from Dan Yocum last night who is a local Packard part supplier I get some of my harder to find 51-56 parts from. He will not be attending due to health issues, but is sending some parts down with another guy from the regional PI chapter.

Also he told me he scored a complete '54 A/C system (from underhood to trunk and everything in between) from a gentleman in CT. He is going to put that on his '53 Patty. So it will be nice to see one of those locally in working operation.

I also talked to him about locating a crank pulley that was used on the power steering equipted models for use on the '54 for aftermarket A/C. He has the piece that bolts to the front of the standard pulley for power steering. I always thought it was a completely different pulley with 2 grooves. But according to him its just an add on piece that bolts to the front of the existing pulley. So hopefully that is coming down to the PI meet with the gentleman that is bringing some of his parts down. He should also be bringing down new 53 Senior, 54 Junior (same as '53 Senior), & 54 Senior (with the fin) headlight rings that Dan is reproducing out of cast aluminum.

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Mal, BLOODY cold is when it reachs -60F like it did last week (actually only -38F with a windchill of -60F).

what is the color on this green car? it is gorgeous!!!!!

Lighting, etc. can really play tricks with colors but if that's a factory color it looks like Code F, "Golden Green Metallic", same color my 48 Custom 8 was, a lovely color.

There should be a metal spacer between the mirror and the belt moulding that fits between the ribs on the moulding. Thickness is 1/16 inch, width 5/16 inch and length 4-1/8 inch with the ends slightly rounded to match the base of the mirror. Diameter of the holes is about 3/16 inch with spacing to match the mirror base.

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