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check out eastwood for polishing and surface prep tools.
lazy link. You can get very good results if you're prepared to invest the time. Wear old clothes, gloves, safety glasses and dust mask. Be prepared to make a mess. you can rig up a dust collector with an old vacuum cleaner.
A variable speed bench grinder works nicely, lower speeds (around 1400 rpm) if you want to polish plastic parts, higher speeds for metals (in the 3000 rpm range). get the arbor extensions as they make it easier to polish various parts.
A corded electric drill will help in those tight spots when using the tapers. a dremel helps finishing those tight spots. get about 5 to 7 buffing wheels spiral and loose sewn, number them. 1 being the course and 6 being very fine, 7 will be your final polishing buff.
use a different buff for each grit of compound.
Start with 120 grit tapers and complete all the tight spots and recessed areas before moving to the larger flat surfaces. Clean your part between each step. You want each step to cross over the previous step so it will clean up the scratches from the previous step, it's hard to do with some parts but the more you can stick to that it will give you a cleaner end result. I used 120, 220, 320, 400 grits then moved to a tripoli compound then to white rouge then used Jewelers rouge. finished the buffing steps with mothers aluminum polish.
Hope this helps with your polishing needs. Here are some before and after pictures. 
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