Grum.Man
En-Route
So I am looking at an airplane that is polished with painted stripes. How in the world do you keep the polished parts shinny without hurting the paint??
To renew the shine of a polished plane, you typically use a Cyclo buffer with very fine polish, like Nuvite S. If you run over into the paint a little, it isn’t damaged but you do have to do hand work with e.g. Nuimage cleaner to remove the polish from the adjacent paint.
Depending on whether the plane has polished or painted wings, you’re looking at 15-25 hrs of work with a Cyclo polisher, about once a year depending on environment. Polishing a plane by hand would take an eternity.