Burnishing ahhhhhhh

[The Iceman]

Burnishing has been a concept easy to understand the meaning but hard to mentally see it work. Well I finally burnished a wheel last night with a pollished rod. Now I understand! Now the only question is how much? 3 hard passes? 5? 10?

Anyone try Wax then Burnish then Wax then Burnish? or is wax too slow?

GravityX had a good Idea about capping the ends. I'm thinking a couple of nylon washer held in place with your thumbs would work. Maybe Epoxy one side!

 

[Resophonic Racing]

If you do multi layers of wax and it is not completely dry between layers it will slow the car down. With graphite I would do one application of wax, burnish after. Then I would clean the axles real good and apply pledge to them and wipe clean. Insert the axles into the wheels and apply graphite again. Spend some time on alignment, thats where you will pick up some speed.

 

[5KidsRacing]

Burnishing has been a concept easy to understand the meaning but hard to mentally see it work. Well I finally burnished a wheel last night with a pollished rod. Now I understand! Now the only question is how much? 3 hard passes? 5? 10?

Anyone try Wax then Burnish then Wax then Burnish? or is wax too slow?

GravityX had a good Idea about capping the ends. I'm thinking a couple of nylon washer held in place with your thumbs would work. Maybe Epoxy one side!

I don't think your layer effect would work... I think any layers after the first wax/burnish would just fall off...

I taped a small piece of cotton cloth to one end of my polishing rod and I push it up against the hub when I burnish. That polishes the hub.... flip wheel repeat. I have use the same polishing rod, taped on cotton piece for years.