Here we go with the first question!
I jumped into polishing the engine bay panels this afternoon, and need any tips y'all might have on how to do this. First, let me say that I've been through the archives and read up on the different products. My method so far has been to go over the area first with Eagle One metal polish (the cotton/felt material with polish pellets embedded in it), as it cuts pretty well, and is cheap & readily available. Then, I went over the area a second time using the Southern Shine polish. This seems to work fairly well, except...
There are still a bunch of little white dots on the aluminum that this isn't taking out. They look like something off the road splashed up on the panels, leaving the spots behind. I've run into something like this on small trim pieces before, and simply buffed it out with an SOS pad, then polished. If I do that here, I'm afraid I'll wind up with swirl marks in the aluminum. Is this something the Alcoa PDQ might take care of?
Also, anybody know of an electric polishing tool that would be handy in the engine compartment? Something a little larger than a Dremel, but smaller than an angle grinder. (We're not set up compressor-wise for continuous duty like an air-powered buffer.)
Thanks!