[ccx1984]

doug polishing stainless is much of the same process a chrome shop does before they start the plating process, they grease the parts out with abrasive glued to a cotton wheel and use a grease or tallar (grease) applied to the pad or wheel. then they use a rouge to bring out the shine, this will take several times of greasing and polishing to get a scratch free shine. try going to a plating shop for aluminum oxide abrasive (150 & 220) and some hyde glue the local shop here sells it to me. McMaster-Carr has the pads/wheels and the rouge (white works best for stainless), harbor freight sells the double shaft motor ( about $70.00). parts get very hot when buffing and this gets very very dirty. any chrome shop can do the polishing should cost less than if it were steel being plated. P.S had a little experience building and polishing my 23T-Bucket chassie and running gear from stainless steel back in the 80's.