I want to polish an Autococker hammer and bolt. From what I recall, using a super fine grit sandpaper is the first step. I have a polishing wheel for my Dremel and some Brasso. Just looking for recommendations on what grit of sandpaper is generally used, tips on the steps following.
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If the bolt is aluminum and without damage I would start with brillo pad. On steel y need something a little more aggressive but aluminum, no need to remove material unless you need to
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Unless you are trying to get out scratches or serious discoloration, I would skip the sandpaper entirely.
Brasso is thin, so it's messy with a dremel.Comment
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Get yourself some fine polishing compound.
It is a solid stick and the friction of the wheel melts it to load up with compound.
It is going to be a lot less messy and more effective than trying to dremel with brasso. Most of the time things don't need extensive polishing and I just use some red rouge.Comment
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Only try polishing the bolt if it's bare aluminum. If it's anodized, you'll just make it worse- it's nearly impossible to polish anodizing without damaging it. Anodizing is aluminum oxide- the exact same stuff as the grit in your sandpaper or polishing emory.
And, trust me when I say it'll do you little good. If the bolt is rough and galled, yes, smoothing it down and polishing it will help. If it's smooth, regardless of being shiny, if it has O-rings dab a little grease on them and call it good. Chances are you'll never notice a difference.
Polishing a hammer works if the hammer is rough- I've seen a few over the years that had "fast, not great" finish out of the machine, and those can generally benefit from some smoothing.
But taking it down to a mirror polish? Waste of time. If the hammer starts out rough, you'll see a minor improvement in consistency, but that's about it.
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Jewelers Rouge and a high speed buffing wheel.Comment
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Wait, this is for a cocker, why polish the bolt at all? Besides being an air passage the bolt just sits still during the actual firing
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I'll echo some of the others here- I don't bother polishing cocker guts unless they really need it (damaged, etc.). Probably won't get much performance-wise from it.
But for polishing Spyder hammers I use 2k, then 3k grit automotive sandpaper, then Brasso. Seems to work OK.Comment
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have at it and see what happens, stock hammers and bolts are dime a dozen, I've definitely destroyed a few in my experiments.
polished hammers are great!
If you don't have any fancy polishing tools and equip.
get your drill out. thread your hammer on a stock hex cocking rod, then place the cocking rod in the chuck. and have at it with your $8 amazon fine grit sandpaper and some wd-40 or automotive polishing compound. Place rag/microfiber in your hand and then a strip of sand paper. No dust and you can get great results in a few min.
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Also worth mentioning that if you remove too much during the polishing process on the hammer you might run into an issue where the hammer wiggles in the lower breach and will destroy your body.
I've seen this once while taking a local kids Cocker years ago he polished the hammer so much it gauled the lower body when it moved..... Granted it was an e-blade but stillComment
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dont polish it, give it a jewl treatment like they do on rifles.
look up jeweled rifle bolt...Comment
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