Busch Super Shine Products | Aluminum Polish, Washes & Buffing Supplies

01 Select by surface

What are you polishing?

The wrong chemistry on the wrong metal wastes an afternoon. Pick the surface and get the products that finish it, in the order they go on.

02 Catalog

The product range

Over fifty items across chemistry, compounds, pads and adaptors. Here are the ones that move. Call or email to order any of them.

Best seller

Aluminum polish

Super Shine Aluminum Polish, 16 oz

Solvent-based. Cuts oxidation fast, residue wipes off clean, resists dulling.

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Shop size

Aluminum polish

Super Shine Aluminum Polish, 32 oz

The same Super Shine formula in a 32 oz jug for shops, fleets and bigger jobs.

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Since 1979

Aluminum wash

Aluminum Wash

The formula the company was founded on. Lifts light oxidation and brake dust before you buff. 16 oz.

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Aluminum wash

Heavy Duty Aluminum Wash

For neglected wheels and tanks carrying moderate to heavy oxidation. 16 oz.

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Chrome care

Chrome Wash

Pulls road film and rust bloom off chrome bumpers, stacks and trim without hazing. 16 oz.

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Chrome & stainless

Chrome & Stainless Steel Polish

For rusted chrome and dull stainless. Removes stainless oxidation quickly, reduces chrome rusting and improves corrosion resistance. 16 oz.

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Tire & wheel care

Dual Lustre Tire Dressing

One coat for a natural look, two for a rich black finish. Dries fast with no greasy look and no splatter onto paint. 16 oz.

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Shop size

Aluminum wash

Aluminum Wash, Gallon

128 fl oz for fleet work and detail shops. Same 1979 formula, better per-ounce.

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Also available by phone or email: Buffing compounds · Airway, spiral and concentric stitched pads · Cone & goblet buffs · Adaptors & accessories

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How to order. Call the shop or send an email with what you need and how many. We will confirm pricing, shipping and lead time, then get it on its way.

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03 The compound sequence

Four steps, color coded

Buffing aluminum is not a black art. It is a sequence: sand, cut, finish, and if you want a mirror, one more pass with something softer. The compound color tells you where you are in it.

Step 1 · Abrasive

Sand it flat

Only for pitted surfaces. Start no heavier than 240 grit, then 320, 400, 600 and finally 800. Lightly pitted metal usually skips this entirely.

Skip if: the surface is already smooth

Step 2 · Cut

Tripoli, brown

Takes the metal from satin to a medium shine. Run it on a cutting pad: yellow or green airway, impregnated pinhole, or a full disk spiral.

Pads: yellow / green airway, 6" to 10"

Step 3 · Finish

White compound

Softer pad, softer compound. This is where the shine actually arrives. Medium airway in standard, ruffle or pleated construction.

Pads: medium airway, concentric full disk

Step 4 · Optional

Ultra White

The mirror step. Extra soft Domet or Canton flannel only. Anything firmer and you are just putting the cut back in.

Pads: Domet, Canton flannel

Stainless steel

Same sequence, different colors

Stainless is a hard ferrous metal. It wants more heat and more speed: 8,000 sf/min against aluminum's 5,000. Emery bar to cut, green to finish, ultra green for the mirror.

Emery · cut

Green · finish

Ultra green

04 Surface speed

Are you buffing too fast?

Pad diameter matters as much as motor speed. Too slow and nothing happens; too fast and the aluminum heats until the molecules move, leaving flow lines you cannot buff out. Set your rig and check it.

Metal

Pad diameter10 in

2"7"12"

Arbor speed1,800 rpm

5003,7507,000

Common rigs

4,500 Surface feet / minute

¼ × pad diameter × arbor speed = ¼ × 10 × 1,800 = 4,500

Too slow Target Running hot Flow lines

Right in the band

4,500 sf/min is within range of the 5,000 recommendation for aluminum. This is the combination to run.

05 Method

Polishing an aluminum wheel

Eight steps, start to finish, on a wheel that still has some life in it. Heavily pitted metal goes through the compound sequence first.

01

Confirm the wheel is bare

Verify there is no coating on the wheel. Polish will not touch clear coat, and it will haze paint. If in doubt, work a hidden spot with Super Shine on a rag and look for black residue: bare aluminum gives it up, coated wheels do not.

02

Wash off the oxidation

Busch Aluminum Wash for light to moderate chalk and brake dust. Heavy Duty Aluminum Wash if the wheel has been neglected. Rinse fully and let it dry before anything else goes on.

03

Apply Super Shine to a rag

Shake well, then work the polish onto a clean cotton rag rather than straight onto the wheel. Small sections at a time.

04

Work it until the rag blackens

The black residue is the oxide coming off. That is the product doing its job. Keep turning to a clean face of the rag as it loads up.

05

Wipe the residue off clean

A fresh microfiber lifts the black away and leaves the shine underneath. Do not let residue dry in the lug pockets or around the hand hole.

06

Machine buff for a real mirror

Optional by hand, but machine buffing gives a higher and longer-lasting shine. Match the pad to the motor: ¼ × pad × rpm should land near 5,000 sf/min. Buff with the rotation of the pad, never against it.

07

Chase the tight spots

Cone and goblet buffs on a drill adaptor get inside lug pockets and around valve stems where a 10" airway pad cannot reach.

Oxidized aluminum wheel before treatment — **Before**Chalked, oxidized aluminum. Sanding is only needed once the surface is pitted, not merely dull.

Rinsing an aluminum wheel — **Step 02**Aluminum Wash lifts light to moderate oxidation and brake dust. Rinse fully before polishing.

Aluminum wheel after clear coat removal — **Clear coat**Coated wheels have to be stripped before any polish will bite. Anodized trim takes a separate removal procedure.

06 Since 1979

The same formula since 1979

Ted Busch ran an advertising agency for Moroso Performance, Accel Ignition and Centerline Racing Wheels before he decided the wheel cleaners on the market were not good enough. Aluminum Wash was the answer, and it has not changed since.

1979 Simsbury, Connecticut

Busch is founded. Aluminum Wash is developed, proves itself immediately, and remains unchanged to this day. Heavy Duty Aluminum Wash, Chrome Wash and Tar Wash follow.

1985 Charlotte, North Carolina

The company moves south to sit closer to the racing industry. The colored wax line launches, and later a waterless wax that catches on fast with racing crews.

1995 Statesville, North Carolina

A move for logistics, and room to grow the catalog. A new solvent-based aluminum polish delivers results by hand that nothing else was matching.

Today A complete buffing system

The polish led to the pads, and the pads led to the compounds. Chemistry, compounds, airway and stitched pads, cone and goblet buffs, and the adaptors to drive them.

07 Trade & fleet

Buying for a shop, a fleet or a shelf

Detail shops, truck stops, chrome shops and fabricators buy the chemistry by the gallon and the pads by the case. Tell us what you run through in a month and we will put a sheet together.

GallonsAluminum Wash and Heavy Duty Aluminum Wash in 128 fl oz

CasesAirway, spiral stitched and concentric pads by the box

BarsTripoli, White, Ultra White, Emery, Green and Ultra Green

PrivateLabel and fill work on the wash and polish formulas

Request a wholesale sheet

Tell us your business, what you buy and roughly how much a month. We will send pricing back by email.

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Or call the shop at 704.878.2067, Monday through Friday.

08 Contact

Talk to someone who buffs

Call the shop

704.878.2067
Monday through Friday, business hours Eastern

Where we blend

Busch Super Shine Products, Inc.
908 Cochran St.
Statesville, NC 28677

Email the shop

Sales@buschshineproducts.com
Orders, wholesale and technical questions. Ask before you buy the wrong thing.