How do you polish stainless steel to look chrome?

What polishes do you recommend and what kind of buffers do I use. Also what speed? It’s too expensive to get it done and would like to do it myself. Please, serious answers only… others will be reported
It depends on what you’re starting with…. If you are taking a 2b annealed stainless steel (sometimes called “mill finish”) to a #8(non-specular mirror finish), its just a matter of step buffing…(start with a 320 grit emery paper or flap wheel to cut the scale, then a cutting compound, like a black emery cutting compound, with a buffing wheel, then a rubbing and polishing compound (like a jewelers rouge) with a buffing wheel until you get a smooth non-specular finish. You can then attack the individual scratched and imperfections with a cotton or similar buffing wheel. If you are staring with a grained stainless steel (like a #3, #4 or #6), then you have to cut the grain and it takes considerably longer. In this case, you need to step-sand the metal (progressivly finer sanding wheels/emery paper similar to the buffing proceedure above) You can use a taloe or similar compound for this cutting procedure. Im assuming you are trying to match mirror chrome and not satin chrome. Satin chrome and satin stainless steel are as similar looking as mirror chrome and mirror stainless steel….only color is different. Good Luck

After all the serious cutting is done and the metal is relatively smooth  a good polish that can be used is “Knob Polish” which can be found at www.shtuffforbikers.com

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