Well, I'm a cheapskate. I use Turtle Wax Rubbing Compound and an automotive detailing brush with interchangeable brush heads. My stuff is shiny and protected! Rubbing compound gets the crud off of all chrome work. It is designed to bring old paint back to life on cars. Not like the paints and clear-coats of today, but the old paint we had on our cars when we were....uhh...less old than we are now. The T/W is about 3 bucks and lasts a long time, and the brush was on sale for less than 10 bucks. Looks like a toothbrush. I would imagine a cheap one from Mal-Mart would work just as well.

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i like the

"less old then we are now"

Like i say

Every one on here has there own Opinion on what to use ..

Yall got yalls

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I have mine ....Simple fact ::

and a Buffer to clean and polish them ....and a can of Never Dull .works great to .. Be repaired of using a lots of good cottons rags ......

i just got a large lot of drum parts to resell but i need to clean them up first.

after reading this post i went out looking for simichrome and can't find it. i tried autopart stores, paint shops, walmart, a harley dealer (were a online search says its the easiest place to find it) and nothing.

were can i find a tube of it here in so cal? any info would be great. thanks.

Turtle Wax Chrome Polish and Rust Remover seems to work well. It's inexpensive and easy to find.

I clean my stuff with Dawn dish soap, then polish with a random bottle of stuff from the hardware store. It's called Noxon and works well. I can't see how it could work better, and it was probably $6 instead of $40.

might depend on the part,what the nature of the grime is(some is grease film,some is dust,some is oxide,some is sulfating) and whether it is nickel or chrome plated. nickel oxide is very stubborn but it does respond to ammonia. final polishing can be done with any fine grit polishing compound----some of the cheap household cream cleansers work well. chrome is a little different because it doesn't corrode like nickel. usually the chrome is a very thin coat over a much thicker nickel or copper base(sometimes it is directly on the base metal or steel and can actually be a different nickel alloy that is bluer in tint, known as bright nickel,which looks like chrome ). dirt ,film and grease are on the chrome and can easily be removed with detergent and a soft cellulose pad but chrome is thin and often porous, so corrosion wells up from the nickel or copper or whatever undercoat and causes pitting. the oxides etc. around the pitting need an abrasive or a solvent specific to the oxide to remove them and any abrasive that is fine enough to not scratch the chrome will do.that's why some chrome polishes work better than others on a specific item because they are designed to dissolve specific oxides----some work on copper oxide,some work on lead oxide,some work on copper sulfate,some work on nickel oxide, so there is no magic bullet. i've used a couple of household cream cleansers mixed with a really thick liquid detergent and a fine cellulose dish washing pad(not any metal pad!) and that works perfectly because it is the grease cutting and abrasive action that gets the job done,not an expensive solvent based product . chrome is hard and resists scratching,so fine grit cream cleansers, which are designed to not scratch shiny plastic bathroom fixtures,or toothpaste work well.. all the expensive metal polishes are a combination of harsh chemicals designed to incorporate grease cutting,abrasive action and sometimes a specific corrosion dissolution(as in brasso). you're paying a lot for something that you can mix up yourself from cheap household products when you buy those.just experiment a little for your application(s).