POLISHING YOUR AIR CHAIR FOIL

There are a few things you can do to your Air Chair foil assembly to keep it at it’s ultimate performance. You want to keep your foil as tarnish free as possible. After every ride when you put the Air Chair back in your boat remember to wipe it down with a clean, dry, soft towel. After a couple of days on the lake you will want to polish your foil with aluminum polish. We like to use Mothers Aluminum Polish.

If you have let your foil assembly get badly tarnished or you are finding it hard to remove the tarnish here are some more specific suggestions.

CAUTION: DO NOT LET ANYONE STAND BY TO OBSERVE. IF A PART SHOULD GET JERKED FROM YOUR HANDS IT COULD CAUSE A SERIOUS INJURY.

You can use a hand held Disk Sander with a soft buffing pad or a bench grinder with a 6” buffing wheel. If a bench grinder with a buffing wheel is going to be used maximum rpm should be 4000. Hand held sander/polisher’s with polishing pad should not have over 1700 RPM. When using hand held polishers clamp part to be polished securely to a work bench. Use a block of polishing rouge for aluminum. It comes in various sizes and shapes. When it is spinning, touch the rouge to the buffing wheel (don’t be afraid of using too much rouge, it’s not expensive!). Be sure you remove the blades from the T-bar and polish one piece at a time. Hold your blade to the wheel, be VERY careful during this stage. The buffing wheel is spinning so fast it heats the parts a bit, so you may want to wear gloves. Caution also needs to be exercised about the angle you hold parts on the buffing wheel. You don’t want the top edges catching the wheel. Do the bottom half of the blade turn it around 180 degrees, and do the other half. If you are not careful your part may be flung to the floor. After buffing, I go over it with Mother’s or Flitz aluminum polish. The polish does not make it any shinier, but it protects the metal longer so you wont have to buff it every time after a day on the water.

If you choose to polish your seat tower make sure you secure the seat belt down tight. DO NOT EVER LET IT COME IN CONTACT WITH THE WHEEL OR POLISHER. To secure seat belt fold it tightly back and forth and duct tape it down secure away from all aluminum to be polished.