In the world of serious metal polishing, only rank amateurs squirt little dabs of goop onto rags and have at it by hand. If youre a true connoisseur of the arcane art of metal polishing and the sort of shine snob who wrinkles your nose at the merest ripple in mirrored aluminum, youll want a couple of polishing products. The important distinction is this: How oxidized is the metal and how often do you polish it? If you do it once a year and the aircraft lives outside, youll need a more aggressive polish than if you hit it once a month with a buff and some carnauba wax. Yet any of a dozen other polishes will also chase the tarnish off a spinner. In a recent test of most of the metal polishes sold for props and spinners, our preference is for one of the old standbys, Flitz. But most are made of similar materials and measuring much performance difference between them is a prayer.
Lots of products purport to be the best and easiest to use metal polishes. Frankly, we prefer to smear some goop on the spinner, buff it off and get on with the flying. When its time to polish a prop spinner, we have no desire to commune with the metals inner oneness.
