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Removing anodizing

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oldtired:

--- Quote from: Stidds on October 06, 2011, 11:30 AM ---Don't use Oven cleaner it is for wimps, get yourself some caustic soda and do it that way. 

In my opinion you are not a proper BMX restorer/collector until you have had a big lungful of caustic soda fumes and coughed your guts up.  :LolLolLolLol:

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yup tis the only way  :daumenhoch:   ,  don't use your lasses marigolds either thats for real puffs and will get you barred from all future discusions about chemical abuse .............. :LolLolLolLol:

nosepickben:

--- Quote from: dannywhac on October 06, 2011, 12:46 PM ---X2 on the caustic soda - I like the 'sharpness of lung' it gives you if you do it in a confined space :)

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fantastic!! Thanks chaps   ;)

nosepickben:

--- Quote from: pickle on October 06, 2011, 10:24 AM ---http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=17958.0

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Cheers dude, I spelt anodizing differently so it didn't show up when i searched!  :daumenhoch:

stidds:
I actually do find caustic soda a damn sight more controllable than oven pride though. With caustic you can see the anodising coming off instantly, dip it in clean cold water immediately after and jobs done.  I have seen with oven pride that if you leave it too long it can start eating into the metal.

Dannywhac:
Same here - keep a knacked old toothbrush handy just incase you get any of that grey 'soot' forming on the aluminium, under the cold tap straight off and a good scrub.

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