POLISHING DIAMOND PLATE

Making a tough job easy using carpet scraps

The next time you are cutting your truck’s carpet save the scraps. Chuck Simmons of Denver-based Outlaw Customs, says such carpet scraps makes the world’s best polishing pad for diamond plate.

Carpet, especially the shorter nap shag, doesn’t leave threads behind or come apart as it is pushed across the rough diamond plate. It’s mildly abrasive texture quickly removes tarnish, and when used with a good chrome polish, allows you to cover a lot of area quickly.

Simmons recommends pushing the pad hard in the direction of one set of diamonds, then following the angle of the other pattern. this gets the carpet fibers tight against the plate’s raised portions giving a superb cleaning. Finish off the job with a microfiber cloth.

If you don’t have scrap carpet, poke around in the trash bins of the local capet dealer. One stop and you should find enough carpet scraps to last for several years. — CR