Reply to "Cheap way to "polish" your ZF"

What, nobody's askin' me for more tips on polishing the ZF with finer and finer grits of sandblasting media? Actually I was thinking of sandblasting the ZF again with some baking poweder. That stuff is really fine grit and maybe I can discover the secret the pro's have been using. What a mess that would be.

Charlie, can't you just buy a case of that stuff and sell it to us, I'd rather send you $20 than look all around town. I already got $30 and 20 hours in the deal, what's $20 and another hour to me now? Thanks for the tip. I'm the kinda guy that's gonna try it, but I think you know that already.....

Hey, I was gonna try toothpaste to polish it up all shiny.... What's the real secret?

I was watching one of those biker build-off shows on TV and I learned a secret. The shop was putting the aluminum parts in a machine that "agitates" these large aluminum oxide white pellets around in the machine with the part all bathed in the pellets. Take it out in a few days and it's really shiny.

Maybe take a washing machine from the curb next time someone's throwing theirs away, and modify that machine so it's got one cyle: "agitate" and plug up the drain hole to keep the pellets inside.... But my ZF is too big for that. The machine in the program was just burping these pellets up and down 1/2 an inch all around the part, and after a while, the part was polished. A friend of mine polished some small parts in a jewelry polishing cannister with peanut shells and took some small parts and really made them shine. I could polish my water pump or my Campys in a washing machine rig but not a ZF.