Polishing the churn

After sanding the outside of the milk churn to 360-grit smoothness I started to polish it with AutoSol ChromeGlans paste. Because I didn't have a polishing machine and the barrel had some pinpoint details, I had to rub the paste manually. Believe you me, it took a couple of nights to make it to mirror shine. (oh, we believe you! -Ed)



Of course the cap also had to be sanded and polished. Before I started this process, I decided to cut a hole for a 120mm cooling fan in the top, in the depression in the middle that you can see here on the left. It was a little complicated, because there wasn't enough room to operate from the upper side and I had to make the hole with Dremel cut-off wheels from the under side of the cap. It worked out in the end (right).



The polishing of the base was completed with great speed, because my dear sisters helped me in it (the work was easy enough for blondes). The sight of sparking chrome, or rather highly polished aluminium, gave me fresh motivation to finish the project. The mounting threads for the lower moulding and the kettle lead power plug can be seen here.