SR77 said:
Hey beirbelly, Why no steel wool on the tail pipes. Wouldn't using the wool and then using some of the mothers metel polish after give the tail pipes a polished shine look.
Steel wool will leave fairly large, visible scratches on the metal surface. Of course, the finer the steel wool, the smaller the scratches, but they'll never be as small as those of the polishing agents, which polish by making scratches so small that they're less than the wavelength of light, so you can't see them, you just see the surface of whatever has been polished as being very smooth. If you've ever done any bodywork, remember that you start with a fairly coarse wetsand paper, and move to finer and finer grades, until you get to the polishes, which have even finer polishing grits in them.
You can probably get most of the junk off with the rough side of one of those scrubby sponges. The plastic on those things is not hard enough to scratch the metal, but usually good enough to get off the crap, like road tar, etc. that might accumulate on the pipes. Then use the metal polish for the final polishing.
it's the best for cleaning polished metal.
