# Polishing SS weight rings? **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance\ **Created:** [April 17, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-ss-weight-rings/80091 "2016-04-17T04:04:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![i\_throw\_yoyos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/73ab20/32.png) [@i\_throw\_yoyos](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/i_throw_yoyos)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-ss-weight-rings/80091/1 "2016-04-17T04:04:50Z")
so now that I’ve asked everything I can other than this recently, I hope I’m not spamming this board too much, I wanna know if I could safely hand polish steel rings or if I am gonna end up rubbing the anno off the aluminum in contact with the rings? I mean it’s abrasive so it seems like a bad idea, but do you think it could be done by a careful hand, or should I just not? ---
**Author:** ![emrocks02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@emrocks02](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/emrocks02)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 5:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-ss-weight-rings/80091/2 "2016-04-17T05:28:17Z")
How are you polishing it? Just use one of those polish cream things and you should be fine I would think. I like to use Mother’s Aluminum Polish (works on all metals). I know Monkeyfingr also make some sort of polish. What do you mean it’s “abrasive”? ---
**Author:** ![i\_throw\_yoyos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/73ab20/32.png) [@i\_throw\_yoyos](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/i_throw_yoyos)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-ss-weight-rings/80091/3 "2016-04-17T17:45:56Z")
> [@emrocks02](#): > > How are you polishing it? Just use one of those polish cream things and you should be fine I would think. I like to use Mother’s Aluminum Polish (works on all metals). I know Monkeyfingr also make some sort of polish. What do you mean it’s “abrasive”? I wanted that mirror finish on the weight rings, fam ---
**Author:** ![kyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/df705f/32.png) [@kyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kyo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-ss-weight-rings/80091/4 "2016-04-18T19:55:51Z")
the odds are you’ll end up scuffing the anodizing in the process… you could mask it and try to be -extremely- careful but one mistake with an abrasive polish and you’re going to start eating into the ano pretty quickly. ---
**Author:** ![GregP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gregp/32/1192_2.png) [@GregP](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GregP)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 4:12am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-ss-weight-rings/80091/5 "2016-04-25T04:12:39Z")
> [@kyo](#): > > the odds are you’ll end up scuffing the anodizing in the process… you could mask it and try to be -extremely- careful but one mistake with an abrasive polish and you’re going to start eating into the ano pretty quickly. ^^ this I probably wouldn’t even try it for “internal” (cup) rings. If I really insisted on trying to polish the rims of an SS yoyo (which I probably won’t), I would not only mask, but I would also put the yoyo half in the chuck of a drill, taking a bunch of precautions (mostly against torque; you could strip your halves in a hurry if you do something wrong). Even though the yoyo half would be spinning pretty quickly, you could use a jig or at least a support for your hand to make your aim a lot steadier as you start applying the abrasive/polish.