Also, anyway to help make it some-what shiny again? Any advice will help, thanks a bunch.
It should be okay to floor partially8'x2' 18mm chipboard flooring will do the job nicelyDo not cut any of the trusses without speaking to a carpenter/joiner first.
Well, there are 2 ways to hide/remove a scratch on an aluminum frame, but first things firstYou frame is very likely ball burnishedThis means that it was placed in a cabinet and tumbled with a zillion tiny balls which gave it a polish of sortsThis can't be reproduced by handWhat you CAN do is to get a small cloth buffing wheelmade of a bunch of cotton sheets sewn togetherBy using this and some red (rouge) polishing compound (not the paste- you want the stick) you can get the scratch out BUT that area may be shinier than the restThe other option is to brush the entire frameTake some 600 grit silicon carbide sandpaper and sand the ENTIRE frame following the length of the tubesYou are basically adding a multitude of scratches which camouflage the othersBoth of these things take a lot of effortWere I you, I'd just live with the existing marks.
