Interior Exterior
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Anyone know a good way to get anodizing off of aluminum?
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Sure, just use sandpaper, or bead blasting. All anodizing is is a layer of oxidized aluminum. How thick that layer is depends on the method used, but it'll come off pretty easily.
I believe it's also possible to use some types of acid to remove the oxidized aluminum (might also be referred to as 'aluminum brightening'? link).
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Never tried, but I heard that Easy Off oven cleaner will do the job
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I had my anodized LSS wheels stripped and re-anodized a different color. The anodizing shop used a chemical process of some sort.
--Joe
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I have used Easy Off oven cleaner with bike parts before,
spray on bake off.
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I tell you what, it's a B!tch! Especially to get it all off. Getting a little off- not a big deal, getting rid of all of it. Wow. I tried industrial aircraft stripper that we used to remove powdercoating on springs at Ford (for salt spray testing, etc), no go. Sandblasting kind of touched it. In the end it was a lot of elbow grease with sandpaper. I was only doing a couple small parts, a dual carburator linkage on top of my blower that I wanted polished like everything else rather than the black powdercoating it came with. Well once I got into it I was dedicated. I bet I had at least 14 hours into getting the anodizing off and polishing those parts! The Anodizing hardens the surface.
Of course on my Lotus the anodizing is coming off on it's own on the door sills behind the black plastic. Go figure. lol. (an no I've never used any harsh cleaners, simple green, glass cleaner etc on them- the "harshest" chemical I've used has probably been automotive spray detailer)