"polishing your keg" is more than a clever euphemism - Page 39

**Bobby_M** · 09-19-2011, 01:10 PM

Very nice. 5 hours is quite an investment but you'll appreciate it for a long time. The back ache will fade long before the shine does.

de3isit · 10-20-2011, 01:14 AM

I agree that the finished product looks really cool. this is my first attempt at polishing my kegs.

Flomaster · 10-22-2011, 06:14 PM

so its been forever since I did my Boil Keggle and I am doing my HLT. I have two polishing compounds one blue and one gray. I can't recall which is which... I am thinking the blue compound goes with the blue pad and the gray goes with the soft polishing pads.

-=Jason=-

**Bobby_M** · 10-22-2011, 07:44 PM

No idea.. the sticks I had were dark grey and white at the time with the white being the finer polish.

Flomaster · 10-22-2011, 10:54 PM

well here is my HLT half done..

went over the entire thing with a flapper disk and even removed the raised faced lettering on the keggle. then I used the Blue Gater Disk with the Blue compound. I'll go buy some soft polishing pads tomorrow and see what color the polishing compound is. to make sure I have the right stuff already.

for some odd reason I decided to touch the inside of the keggle after grinding away at the AB lettering, lets just say I no longer have a finder print on my middle finger on my left hand....

-=Jason=-

Flomaster · 10-23-2011, 03:41 PM

so I used my "BLUE" compound with the blue disk... turns out the gray compound was the one I should have used. oh well... it still got the job done.

im about to go tackle this HLT with the soft pad and the "Green" mirror finish polish from lowes made by "Porter Cable"

-=Jason=-

Flomaster · 10-23-2011, 07:40 PM

well here is the HLT finished sitting next to the Boil keggle I did about 8 months ago.. yeah it took me that long to finally Get'R Dun.

-=Jason=-

Edit: I think I like the look of the ground down seam and removal of the AB lettering much better, now do I want to do the same to the boil keggle or just say Fug it, its good enough.

kmat123 · 10-23-2011, 11:16 PM

Thanks for the write-up Bobby! I polished up the Sanke I am going to use in the no-sparge rig I am putting together and it turned out great. I would take a picture of it but am too sore to go grab my camera. Nothing a couple of ibupfrofen and a few homebrews won't fix!

Props to you guys who have polished 3 keggles...it was a lot of work and took me about 4 hours. I used two of the fine grit gator pads followed by #2 and #5 polish.

**Bobby_M** · 10-24-2011, 02:10 PM

Jason, that looks money. I didn't think you could remove the embossing because it looked to me like you'd end up with holes. I guess the stainless is thicker than the embossing depth. I'm sure it got pretty thin but it looks good to me.

Miracletripper · 10-26-2011, 07:43 PM

I am also doing this inbetween building my Brutus 10 clone. I can't wait. I got through about 1/3 of a keggle with the medium pad before it was toast. I think I will lighten my touch. Thanks Bobby!