MOTHERS 05102 Mag & Aluminum Polish - 1 Gallon
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| List Price: | $114.92 |
| Price: | $101.99 |
Product Description
This is our legendary metal polish. The Mothers secret formula balances a brilliant shine with easy use for aluminum wheels and parts, brass, alloys and accessories. Application is just a matter of a clean cloth and a little elbow grease. Mothers Mag and Aluminum polish is strong enough to put a shine to the most neglected metals and gentle enough to use on a regular basis.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #250058 in Automotive
- Size: 1 Gallon (128 Ounces)
- Brand: Mothers
- Model: 5102
Most helpful customer reviews
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful.I bought this product last summer to restore some vintage kitchen canisters made of brushed aluminum. It's almost magic, but in a way that's a problem. I literally spent a day polishing one canister, because I just couldn't ever get to the point where my rags and paper towels weren't continuing to pick up dark oxidized material from the surface. This stuff is so effective, that at some point, you just have to realize that there will always be a microscopically thin layer of oxidation and call it good. The challenge is to leave an even surface without darker or lighter spots. If you start saying "I'm just going to work on that little spot some more", then that little spot will be shiny enough to blind a sniper at two miles, but then it's shinier than everything else, so you you need to work on the other parts for awhile and...well, you see what I mean.I agree that it stinks to high heaven, but I use it in my kitchen anyway. Hey, the two rolls of used reeking paper towels will keep the dogs out of the trash, right?More is not better. Although you'll be tempted to smear the stuff on like clown makeup, don't do it. Better to use a teeny tiny little bit and then wipe it off. If you smear on a lot, you pick up a lot of oxidized metal, and then you smear it back into the thing you're trying to clean. Paper towels and rags wont' absorb this polish. They just smear it around. Stop every now and then and use warm soapy water and a soft sponge to clean off some residue, and then you can see the spots that are really clean and the spots that aren't.I'm off now to buy a new jar for this summer's round of cleaning. I used up the last of my first jar on that coffee canister this morning... and I haven't even started the flour canister yet...
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.Overall a great product. However, be careful if you're polishing a part that's only coated with a thin layer of metal because the metal will be gone. As the case with my chrome headlight housing. I baked apart the headlight assembly to polish the oxidized chrome inside only to end up buying a new headlight. So be careful.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.My father bought me a tube of Simichrome some years back. The stuff produces a luster in metal so well that I didn't want to change products. But when I looked into getting an 8oz tub of Simichrome (smaller than the 10oz tub of Mothers listed here), I realized that it's more than three times the price. Now I'm trying Mothers after having used Simichrome for years. I know how Simichrome smells, how it acts on metals, how much to use, and how far how much you use can go on the type of metal it is used. Mothers polish is an affective product; it does what they say it does. It puts a very nice luster on metal. However, compared to Simichrome, it doesn't do as well on the relatively harder metals such as the brass of a bullet casing; the bullet casing was a test. Simichrome seems to have finer grits and a more concentrated concoction of chemicals. As a result, it takes less work and less polish to achieve a superior luster.In essence: Simichrome provides a better (more mirror-like) luster than Mothers with less work and less polish. Mothers provides a comparable luster with a little more work and more polish. The Simichrome gains a bigger lead in harder metals.Last thoughts:Simichrome is three times the price of Mothers. But Simichrome goes farther and takes less work than Mothers. To make a very rough estimate, I would say that it takes twice as much Mothers to reach its best luster than it does for Simichrome to reach its best luster (which is a better luster than that of the result of Mothers). Uh oh, here comes the math...Current prices: Simichrome $2.90625 / oz (current price of 8oz container divided by 8) Mothers $0.778 / oz (current price of 10oz container divided by 10) Multiply the Mothers polish by (at least) two to achieve its best results = $1.556 / oz The difference comes out to be $1.35025If all we are looking at is the product, the determining answer comes from the question "Is a slightly better luster worth the $1.35 more per ounce?" I pray that this helps.
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