Thread: MAAS, FLITZ and other Polishing compounds

For all who want to know:

MAAS and FLITZ are brands of metal polish...

-Commonly found at hardware stores, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, online, etc.

-Used to polish a blade

-can be applied
1) by hand with a soft (preferably lint-free) cloth and rubbed in, then buffed off with either a buffer or by hand with another cloth
2) using a dremel and felt wheels/muslin wheels

-felt wheels will turn black from the residue and chemical composition of the polish

-Often used to clean an eBay blade when you first get it as well as a final polish

Feel free to add to this thread for all of the inquiring newbies out there.

Ah this says it all really...

http://www.walgreens.com/store/produ...77&id=prod1221

My goodness, we are ripped off over here so much.

Solvol Autosol is a good alternative for those living in Britain. It can be had from motor accessory shops.

I'm in toronto at the moment and went looking for MAAS the other day and couldn't find it, but i did find Flintz, this is the equivelant of MASS? i didn't buy it as i wanted to check with you guys.

orfeo

Originally Posted by orfeo

I'm in toronto at the moment and went looking for MAAS the other day and couldn't find it, but i did find Flintz, this is the equivelant of MASS? i didn't buy it as i wanted to check with you guys.

orfeo

Does the same thing, get it.

Another good thing (which I use) are those little green bricks of chromium oxide which you can buy at some hardware stores.
They are used for polishing steel, and often used on buffer wheels or leather.

I use them with a dremel and a felt wheel. simply hold the wheel to the brick and let it take up some stuff.

Hold the dremel to the blade. with a bit of light pressure, the wheel generates heat, the stuff melts and gets smeared over the blade.
Then with very light pressure, polish until the stuff is all gone and repeat as necessary. Those bricks only cost 10 euros apiece, and are big enough to polish at least 100 razors, and probably more.

My polish of choice is Simichrome. Seems to cut oxidation a bit faster than Maas or Flitz. It also seems to leave a bit of a protective film on the blade so I've not had a problem with further discoloration after polishing even when a razor is left in the shop for several weeks while I'm working on it.

Just another data point,
Ed

Originally Posted by Bruno

Another good thing (which I use) are those little green bricks of chromium oxide which you can buy at some hardware stores.
They are used for polishing steel, and often used on buffer wheels or leather.

I use them with a dremel and a felt wheel. simply hold the wheel to the brick and let it take up some stuff.

Hold the dremel to the blade. with a bit of light pressure, the wheel generates heat, the stuff melts and gets smeared over the blade.
Then with very light pressure, polish until the stuff is all gone and repeat as necessary. Those bricks only cost 10 euros apiece, and are big enough to polish at least 100 razors, and probably more.

Hello Bruno,

Any idea how they call the 'green chromium oxide bricks' in dutch? I'd like to have some but can't imagine they sell these at Wickes/Bricorama/Gamma/Praxis etc.

I can't find MAAS or Flitz for the life of me. Can anyone recommend somewhere to buy MAAS online?

I posted a link for Walgreens above.