Gear Knob help clean/polish/chrome

[natben]

I need to sort out my gear knob in my Cerbera, it's a bit scratched and worn, any ideas how to sort it or do I just remove it and get it chromed or powder coated and ideas guys.

George

[phillpot]

clicky

and you get a set of valve caps !

[RichB]

[natben]

nope not what I'm after, looking to keep it standard just need it looking better!!

[tejr]

I polished mine up a long while back.. took a long time to remove all the coating and get it back to the metal, then with the dremel I polished it up with some meguirs polish and brasso..

Start off with some course wet and dry, then move to a finer grain until you can start polishing by hand and then maybe using something like a dremel (made things a million times easier for me!)

[SimonKD]

You could always do what I did and buy a standard new one.

http://www.tvrpower.co.uk/store/filter/carmodel/Ce...

Halfway down the page.

Regards
Simon

[sibo99]

Is this the same knob for a sag[ the tvr power pic]

[Goaty Bill]

SimonKD said:

You could always do what I did and buy a standard new one.

http://www.tvrpower.co.uk/store/filter/carmodel/Ce...

Halfway down the page.

Regards
Simon

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Comment withdrawn (no it wasn't nasty )


edited for stupidity

Edited by Goaty Bill on Saturday 19th November 08:55

[Nickccc]

The easy way is to get a bolt that fits into the gear knob cut the head off, screw it into the gear knob then fit it into a drill.
I used eighty grit to start with, then use some 1500 wet and dry to get it polished and finish with a scouring pad for a matt finish looked as good as new.

[tejr]

Here some pics of mine.. It has begun to dull so I'm going to re-polish it and lacquer it this time



In progress -

[RichB]

Although the original knob was never higly polished.

[robsco]

RichB said:

Although the original knob was never higly polished.

Correct and it also looks better in its original form IMHO.

[tejr]

Maybe, but then its a free way of refurbing your gearknob, and I found it easier to polish it then to try and replicate the original finish (no idea how to do so)

Albeit not original, but imho a polished knob still looks better than a scruffy knob

[scotty_d]

You could always rub it back and prime paint it?

Might do this to mine as it look rubbish as well.

[tejr]

I thought about painting it, then thought it will only get scratched over time and look cack.. I prefer metal to look like metal though, but just couldn't replicate the original finish (which I did attempt if you look at the progress pics)..

[natben]

tejr, I think your's looks good certainly better than mine at the moment.

[Nickccc]

As I mentioned, use a scouring pad to get the mat finish, mine is exactly like new.

[natben]

Here is the current condition of mine.
I'll do what has been sugested and see what it ends up like, I would like it to look like tejrs knob !!!

[Goaty Bill]

Nickccc said:

As I mentioned, use a scouring pad to get the mat finish, mine is exactly like new.

They just aren't Nick.
I like original too.

[Goaty Bill]

natben said:

I would like it to look like tejrs knob !!!