Make Grab Bar pretty again?

[Slick]

OK...I need some help understanding things here. I am replacing my grab bar with another one and would like the new one to be all nice and pretty. But its not. So, what can be done to restore it? Is it a polish thing? A paint thing? It def looks like paint has come off in some areas. Are these things even painted? Someone please point me in any direction here because I dont know what to do with it.

[RichBaker]

Polish or powder coat.....

[rktmanfj]

Mine got the beadblast/powdercoat treatment, but I've seen some of them polished up very nicely.

Randy T
Indy

[1tinindian]

I polished mine.
Wouldn't have done it any other way.
They look much better in person, as I don't think this pictures shows the true shine as well.
Leon

[fb747]

I didn't have the patience or a grinder or a drill or a dremmel for a nice polish and I didn't have the money to blast and powdercoat. So I just sanded mine as smooth as I could get them with some 1000 grit, then got my local panel beater to give them a coat of gloss black and they came out quite nice.

[rktmanfj]

I didn't have the patience or a grinder or a drill or a dremmel for a nice polish and I didn't have the money to blast and powdercoat. So I just sanded mine as smooth as I could get them with some 1000 grit, then got my local panel beater to give them a coat of gloss black and they came out quite nice.

Powdercoat cost $10... used the beadblast cabinet at work.

As long as you don't want something real fancy, powder needn't be expen$ive.

Randy T
Indy

[RichBaker]

I didn't have the patience or a grinder or a drill or a dremmel for a nice polish and I didn't have the money to blast and powdercoat. So I just sanded mine as smooth as I could get them with some 1000 grit, then got my local panel beater to give them a coat of gloss black and they came out quite nice.

Powdercoat cost $10... used the beadblast cabinet at work.

As long as you don't want something real fancy, powder needn't be expen$ive.

Randy T
Indy

Nope, get the kit at Harbor Freight and use the oven at home to cure and it gets pretty inexpensive, at least for small parts.

[andyb]

Depends on if your wife catches you and what a divorce laywer costs.