checker plate polish

hello lyndon.
I use a liquid polish called purple, you can buy it at a truck spare parts shop it does the job realy well cheers bill.

Hi Lyndon.

Autosol works a treat on checker plate & doesn't leave residue like normal car polish.
A friend did his van last week & was very impressed with the finish..
Cheers.
Vince

Go to Bunnings and find steel wool in the sandpaper aisle. It comes in a number of grades in and comes cardboard box. Choose either fine or extra fine. Cut some of the roll with scissors a polish the alloy or stainless with straight dishwashing detergent. You will not believe the difference.
I have a valuable Atomic stove top coffee maker and I took someones advice and reluctantly used the steel wool. Unbelivable result and came up better than new.

Lyndon

I could tell you that I have a polish that does not need effort to polish checkerplate / Diamond plate. I could also tell you that there will be no new taxes, nuclear energy has no down side and we are the land of chosen people. Guess who I am and then vote for me.

All polishes need effort. Some more than others. The best for shine is Autosol but you cannot let it dry and just do about a servicing dish area at a time. You will need plenty of clean soft rags. I get T towels from woolies. Packets of 10 are about $10. The cheapest rags I have found.

Purple is basically the same as Autosol, cheaper and thinner. Works the same but not quite as good.

Alushine by Chemtec is the only one that I have found that you can let dry. I use this after Autosol has smoothed the checkerplate. You can then buff this one with a power tool buffer after it is dry. I have not had good results starting from scratch with this brand. The 1 litre bottle is about right for a 19 ft van with average amounts of checkerplate.

Good luck but I suspect, like me, you will end up with a blister on your polishing finger.

Mate if your that keen you can polish my Checker Plate also :-))

I have found that Purple is better than Autosol, and Mirror Finish is better than both. MF doesn't require too much elbow grease and is used in the professional transport industry to polish ally.

Thanks to everyone for their advise, now up to me to choose which way to go.

Cheers

Lyndon