I didn't really see much discussion about this topic, except for hand polishing, which would take forever in my case, so here is what I did.
I used a 6 inch buffing wheel I got from amazon (the kit comes with three wheels actually) mounted on a drill and polishing compound sticks from Home Depot.
The stator cover was done on the motorcycle as I don't have a gasket for it. The rest were done on my bench with the drill mounted in a vise. But if one doesn't have a bench, these could've been done on the motorcycle, it would just take longer. Smaller, 4 inch buffing wheels would also help.
I think I paid around $40 for the buffing wheels and around $5 for the polishing compound sticks. Not a bad investment for future projects and the process is quite fast. I think I spent about an hour on the front sprocket cover (second pic), the other covers took about 20 minutes a piece.
All in all I'm pretty happy with the final result.
I used a 6 inch buffing wheel I got from amazon (the kit comes with three wheels actually) mounted on a drill and polishing compound sticks from Home Depot.
The stator cover was done on the motorcycle as I don't have a gasket for it. The rest were done on my bench with the drill mounted in a vise. But if one doesn't have a bench, these could've been done on the motorcycle, it would just take longer. Smaller, 4 inch buffing wheels would also help.
I think I paid around $40 for the buffing wheels and around $5 for the polishing compound sticks. Not a bad investment for future projects and the process is quite fast. I think I spent about an hour on the front sprocket cover (second pic), the other covers took about 20 minutes a piece.
All in all I'm pretty happy with the final result.