polishing paste

Are you talking about what they call jewellers Rouge?? The red hard bar that you use with a grinder and polishing wheel or a actual paste??
 
K i have some jewellers Rouge here but it is a bar that is red and what you do is spin a polishing wheel and just gently push it into it to apply the rouge to the polishing wheel.

K so me just made a phone call to the local ex jewellary person and she is not aware of the rouge in a paste. The rouge I have and all that she knows about is in a bar..take the consistency of a soap bar but make it about 5 times bigger and that is what it looks like. I also have a blue and green bar which I got from a chrome plating shop and they use it to polish metal b4 plating....The rouge is really slow going...blue or green will speed things up for ya with a lot less effort....

oh hell pm sent to ya so I can help you out with this one...:)
 
The bar will turn into paste when it's heated (by a polishing wheel). You can get polishing paste but they wouldn't be ideal for what you want (pretty fine, lots of elbow grease). You could get into lapping compounds as well.
 
Believe it or not try a truck dealer (freightliner, peterbuilt, etc.) they usually sell the large bars in different grits as well as the liquid, truckers use it all the time to polish their rims, etc.
 
What exactly are you wanting to polish? If it's something that doesn't require a lot of material removal try a tube of "Autosol", available from CanTire in the auto metal polishes section. Smear a little on one of those tampon-like brushes from Hoppes and go wild. Should easily fit inside the slide, mag well etc.
 
Any place that sells metal polish.

CTire, WalMart, NAPA, Princess Auto, etc.

Second on the Solvol AutoSol polish. Good stuff! $$ but worth every cent, and a little goes a long way.

In a real pinch, when very little material needs to be moved, grab a tube of regular (not gel) toothpaste. Very fine abrasive, sticks where it's put.

The CTire assortment of Dremel tools, includes some rouge in a tiny container. Still about enough to clean up a dozen or so actions. add a drop of oil, and mix it a bit, to make paste that can be stuck onto various parts.
Some of the CTires also stock larger blocks of it, with the grinding wheels.

Cheers
Trev
 
Years ago I got some jeweller's rouge (at least that is what they called it) in powder form from an auto glass shop. We used it for polishing minor scratches in vehicle windshields. The stuff I had was sort of an orange colour.
 
You can get automotive valve grinding compounds in very fine grits, some so fine as to be a polishing compound. Dupont makes automotive rubbing compound and polishing compound in either 8oz or l lb cans, intended for rubbing out and polising paint. They work well on metals but take a lot of elbow grease. Flitz is a very fine polishing/cleaning compound in a tube and has been promoted to clean carbon of cylinder faces of revolvers, to polish bores ect.
 
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