Jim,
I must admit it has been a while since I had to buy it, but it used to be
widely availible at most of my local bicycle shops, although the "motor
bike" crowd uses it too. The eastwood company also lists it on their web
site:
http://www.eastwoodco.com/aspfiles/itemdy00.asp?UID=2001120923383895&T1=1
3047&Dep_Key1=
My tube is getting low, so it may be time for me to "scare up" a tube.
HTH
Mark
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:18:15 -0500 "Jim Swarthout"
<jswarth1@tampabay.rr.com> writes:
> Mark,
>
> I have not been able to find semichrome for several years. It was
> common
> at the motorcycle dealers, but I haven't been able to find it
> recently.
> Do you have a source?
>
> I have used another product recently called M.A.A.S, It looks like
> semichrome, smells like semichrome, and works like semichrome. I got
> it
> at Ace Hardware.
>
> Jim Swarthout
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> To: Peter.Kronberg@hp.com; 6pack@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Chrome polish confusion
>
> Peter,
> I cannot say specifically regarding plated items such as your
> bumper,
> but
> I spent a lot of time in the "polishing "room" at a local jewelry
> store
> during my employ there.
> For fine jewelry items, Tripoli was typically used for general or
> rough
> finishing, while the white or yellow rouge was to finish the job.
> Again
> i
> do not know how the two would apply to plated (chrome) parts, as all
> of
> this type of polishing is removing some of the surface. If it were
> me I
> would start with the finest and work up from there.
> The other way to go is "semichrome" polish, of which I use a lot. It
> works well too.
>
> HTH
> Mark Riddle
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