"polishing your keg" is more than a clever euphemism - Page 43

**PiratesBeardBrewery** · 01-28-2012, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by TalonBrew

It's pretty bad. I live in Denver and the weather was a little cold and windy, so I did it in the garage. You get TONS of this gritty dust on everything. The problem is that sweeping wouldn't get it all off the floor! I had to put a wet towel in the house to wipe my shoes on then I'd take them off! I had these black footprints everywhere. I blew out the garage with a shop-vac and that helped, but still, there are all sorts of horizontal places that I need to go wipe down with a wet cloth. I just touched my workbench, and even after blowing it out, I got black stuff all over my hands.

Oh yeah.... don't put the cans in there with you either. That's a trip to the car wash for sure.

I waited for a warm day (~40) and finished up in the back yard. Soooo much better.

FWIW. I'm sure others will chime in and say it wasn't that bad, but for my money, I won't ever do it inside again.

It was pretty messy. The sanding portion wasn't so bad but the polishing portion gets little fibers from the polish pad and little black specks of polish everywhere. I thought I just got it on my shirt and pants but when I went inside and looked in the mirror the only part of my face that wasn't black was the part that was covered by my glasses.

Luckily I did it outside so didn't have to worry too much about cleanup. I will say though that I'm finding it very hard to clean up all the leftover fibers and black polish residue that got stuck in some of the holes/handles and such in the keg

day_trippr · 01-28-2012, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by TalonBrew

[...]I'm sure others will chime in and say it wasn't that bad, but for my money, I won't ever do it inside again.

Not this guy - I totally agree with you on this. I polished up a corney keg just for poops and chuckles. Took a couple of hours to finish, at which point I flipped up my face shield and realized I had just thoroughly dusted my workshop with a coating of grey/black flecks that wouldn't come clean with just a shop vac. I ended up have to wiped down every horizontal surface in the shop with dampened rags. Royal pita.

If I ever do that again it'll definitely be outdoors...

Cheers!

**megalomani** · 01-28-2012, 11:09 PM

It seems the orbit sander works fine. I got some gator pads for it and two of the polish compounds. Just did a small spot of the keg with the fine pad and it looks nice. Unfortunately did it in the basement and got dust all over. Hopefully I can work on it outside tomorrow and post some pics.

TalonBrew · 01-29-2012, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by day_trippr

. at which point I flipped up my face shield and realized I had just thoroughly dusted my workshop with a coating of grey/black flecks that wouldn't come clean with just a shop vac. I ended up have to wiped down every horizontal surface in the shop with dampened rags. Royal pita.

Yeah. It's hard to describe that unless you've done it. I read plenty in here that said it was messy, but I thought a broom and a shop-vac.....

I was wrong.

akthor · 01-29-2012, 06:16 AM

Okey dokey not inside for sure. Of course the Lowes I went to didn't have the rubber backing pad or the soft polishing pads in stock

Gotta try the other Lowes.

**Bobby_M** · 01-29-2012, 03:03 PM

After the first 20 minutes of polishing in the garage, I realized I was making an insane mess. If you overlook the respirator, you'll blow black snot into the tissue later. That can't be good. I eventually rigged up a small isolation booth with some thick clear plastic to keep the mess down. It worked well but it concentrates the mess inside. Don't even think about walking through your wife's newly carpeted areas without stripping down first.

**megalomani** · 01-29-2012, 10:18 PM

Here is what a cheap orbit sander was able to do. Don't have a before picture, the bottom pic is after the first time over with 220 grit paper.

Not a mirror but pretty good compared to before. I went through lots of sanding discs and the motor was too weak for hard pressure. May get a cheap grinder to finish it off.

On an unrelated note broke several bits trying to drill pilot holes.

**Brickout** · 01-31-2012, 10:19 PM

Just stopped at Lowes to pick up everything. Just as an FYI, the polishing sticks are no longer offered under the Task Force name. They have them under the Porter Cable brand over by the bench grinder accessories.

akthor · 02-13-2012, 02:41 PM

Ok got all the stickers and old sticker residue off was putting the grinder together to get ready to attempt this and need a little clarification.

The medium and fine gator discs have one side that is more abrasive then the other which side do we use? Also do I use the center nut that came with the backing disc or the one that came with my grinder?

Also if you look at the picture that is the center nut that came with the backing pad. Is that set up right? So I have to be careful that the center nut doesn't come in contact with the keg right? I mean it would mess up the keg surface? So I only have like an inch and a half of surface area to polish with?

The tool that came with my grinder also doesn't fit the holes in the nut that came with the backing pad so how tight does that nut need to be?

Flomaster · 02-13-2012, 05:24 PM

I used the center nut that came with the backing pad. I also had to remove the bottom nut off my grinder in order to get the flat center nut to screw down

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