Quote Originally Posted by valboskie View Post
...I was thinking of buying a grinding wheel and buying some polishing mops for it
To save a bit of labour but im not sure if it will work.
Has anyone tried this method to get the pitting out.
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David
I'd say you have nothing to lose. I used fine diamond files on some areas as I was keen to preserve the sharpness on all the edges and stampings. Finding something isn't aggressive enough isn't really a problem, just a few minutes wasted, going the other way results in damage which could take hours to polish out.

Given the original deep pitting you need to be quite aggressive to start off with. However, I do feel that I could have gone to the polishing mops earlier in the process, and think that the sisal wheel with compound would have saved time. That little bit of compliance in the polishing mop may help to "reach in" and abrade the pitted areas.

I have an old Diana 22 which is very tatty, and may try a more aggressive approach by using a brass wire wheel from the off and then going to the polishing mops, which would dramatically reduce the amount of wet'n'dry used.