Originally Posted by
heytchap
Yeah. I used 000 and gave it a quick once over. Guessing this wasnt brilliant. What is the difference between polishing compound and rubbing compound?
Do you think I should replace the fork entirely with the SOMA blade fork in the OP?
Steel wool was not a good idea. It does not know the difference between the paint and chrome you want to save, and the rust you want to remove. It removes everything.
I continue to revive rusty forks with OA. Here's the last three I did. Left to right: a Pinarello, a Masi, and a Nishiki. Rust has been discussed thousands of times, google will get you there. Your fork rust was pretty bad. OA does not replace chrome that is gone, it just removes rust.
Polishing compound is much less aggressive than Rubbing compound. Its relatively easy to remove the paint itself with rubbing compound. So I save it for the worst offenders.