Make sure to wear chemical gloves and all the safety gear (PPE) when handling that stuff ( Also Chemical Boots) it will eat through your tissue into your bone and you could lose a limb… That stuff works great but you have to be safe… Good luck!
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Good Advice, I am investing in acid resistant PPE
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@Dirtdog_powerwash
Check Tidwell Industries out of Lafayette La, they have an amazing aluminum cleaner. He has several impressive videos on linkedin and facebook of the cleaner at work.
http://tidwellind.com/
Check out this video on youtube, He has others.
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Here is another video off of youtube.
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That chem looks wicked! But laffeyete is a far drive. In the second video that guy isnt wearing any gloves 
That’s the least of the concern in the second video. Please know what your doing before just spraying acid on someone’s truck. It might be different if it’s your own neglected trailer. He might as well have painted that fender white not to mention his technique is horrid. That video and this one should be labeled what not to do. Simply amazing aluminum brightener!!! - YouTube
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So much for the nice polished aluminum toolbox. Although I haven’t been able to find one I’m pretty sure there’s a part two where he paints the toolbox black since he basically prepped it for paint in the first video by acid etching it and ruining the polished aluminum. At least there better be a part two…haha
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Thank you!!! it makes my skin crawl every time someone mentions “brighter”!!!
X100000000 on painting it white!!! 
. People have no idea what it takes to fix aluminum after 30 seconds of liquid destruction!!! I’d much rather have road film than crusty white “clean” tanks.
Just a few applications and the aluminum looks like the surface of the moon…
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Thanks for all the info! Guess this just shows my inexperience in aluminum cleaning.
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Takes alot of time and patience to fix stupid. Personally we love brightner. We also own a polishing shop.
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It can definitely be used right. It definitely has its place. Those two just aren’t good examples.
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You’re correct. Acid does have its place in the truckin industry. You just have to know when,how much,what kind and where to use it. I don’t like using it no more than the next person. But when we do a polishing job, that’s the first thing we apply to get the aluminum contaminat free. Then there’s the fleet owners that demand it. Those pics were for a two stage polish
Those are a 4 stage polish job,including sanding with 320 followed by 600.It depends on the customers wallet and ego on how shiny the want it.
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I hope your in a different market then I am. Around here polishing just doesn’t pay hardly anything. I have all the equipment and take care of our own truck but I won’t touch someone else’s for what other guys are doing it for. It’s just to dirty of a job. I’ll go wash a house. Not to mention the hand cramping from doing the final touches.
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That’s amazing. Is it tough sanding with all of the raised ribs? Seems like it would take forever.
I could’ve used you for shining my boots in the Corps for inspection day. One look at my boots and they never even would’ve looked at my uniform.
Nice work!
80% of our biz is truck washing. But when its below freezing here in north easterern Arkansas. I’m in my shop with a wood stove and a resperator polishing what we wash all year.
Aren’t you around Conway or something? I think I saw you post it awhile back. That might not be so bad. I have a few buddies who I do polish their rigs for but it’s as a favor even if I do charge them for it. The toughest thing for me is when you spend all that time and pour your heart into something then they pull through some cheap truck wash. You know what im talking about. Have you ever tried ceramic coating it afterwards? I don’t have enough time on ours to know if it was worth it or not.
That’s nothing compared to what ya’ll do gunney. My brother is in Syira as we speak. MORSOC and any other military branch is were the real work lies sir. Hats of to yall
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I live in little, Lynn Arkansas, pop 270 ish. Between jonesboro and Batesville. Lots of agricultural and limestone quarries. Meaning lots n lots of trucks with nobody to wash or polish them . So when life gives ya lemons. …
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