Anyone have tips or suggestions for removing the blue dye (?) from anodized aluminium fittings? Is the something I can put on them or somewhere to send it?? I'm alittle pressed for time so I don't need any experiments, although they are fun. Thanks, Matt
Do they make Salsa sented???because when I think Festival...I think Salsa!!haha Thanks guys, this won't hurt the alum.?
Won't hurt the aluminum. I remember discovering this method when trying to clean my BMX back in the 70s.I ended up just stripin it all off.....Shiny
This is info I've saved from the past of others that have stripped the annodizing. I'm just copying and pasting. I have not done this myself but thought in the future I might need to. There are places that sell special solvent for removing the anodizing also. Here also is a link to how to do it. Hope there isn't a problem with posting the link. One source is at the bottom of my post. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3825/is_200209/ai_n9123869 Deb . Aluminum trim is very forgiving....strip the anodized coating with original Easy-Off oven cleaner. Work out your dings and then sand smooth like bodywork using 220-1500 grit paper. Once it is smooth you can take it somewhere and have it polished or do it yourself with an air die with a buffer and or a bench grinder/buffer. It is a dirty job but the reward afterward is believable!! It ends up looking like stainless and you may have to polish it once or twice a year by hand but leaves it completely repairable at all times. ------------- ..........a readily available Anodizing remover. I had bought some a few years ago, but could no longer find it. Well this past weekend I finally ran across a vender that sells it. It's the same stuff I bought before that worked so well. It's from a place called : RGS Abrasives Inc. 1246 W. Webb DeWitt, MI. 48820 517-669-8848 or 888-725-4538 E-mail <RGSBuff1@GTE.Net> A jar about the size of a beer can is $10, and that's enough to do a whole car if you don't spill or waste it. (It takes just a small amount to make a gallon of solution, and you can use it over and over ) They also sell a full line of other buffing supplies.
definently gloves.....that stuff will screw up your finger nails......and burn your skin.....it only takes one time to figure that out.....ouch....brandon
I tried the lemon scented Easy-Off once and it didn't remove the annodizing. I switched back to the original formula and it worked like always. I do this all the time. It wont damage the aluminum. Just spray the fitting and brush lightly, spray clean with water, and blow dry with air. Leaving the oven cleaner on too long will result in a nasty black finish left on the parts. It buffs off though. You can tape off the fitting seats if you don't want to remove the finish from that part of the fitting.
If it won't kill a duck, it ain't worth a phuck I keep a jug of battery (sulfuric) acid around the shop for this kind of stuf.
You can also bead blast the color off in a gl*** bead cabinet. The parts are then easily polished if that is your goal. If not a nice clean natural aluminum surface is all that is left behind.
Like above stated, the ''Scented'' versions of easy-off are less potent. Heres a trick, basicly oven cleaner works off the fumes, so get the extra strength stuff, THEN put the parts you want coated, put them in a ziplock bag or a air tight container, and spray away, then seal it up. By sealing it up you lock in the fumes and the cleaner can work to its fullest. I use this method for removing paint on my model cars, i wonder if castrol superclean would work to for anodizing.? -Ryan
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