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southern andy:
Help  :LolLolLolLol:

Ok, scenario.......  I got hold of a couple of sets of Araya 7X rims. One pair were pretty good but the other pair, well, one of them needs a lot of attention.

So i stripped one rim of its gold anno yesterday with oven pride then a few mins later when the gold had gone i went and rinsed it in a bath of water making sure it was rinsed thoroughly. It turned a whitish colour which obviously required polishing. I ran out of time so slung it on the side. Today i progressed with the other rim, again same way but this one i gave a quick polish to straight away and it came out pretty good by my standards, a very chrome looking Ali rim. I then proceeded to pick up the other rim and polish away only for this one to have lots of blemishes on it.  :'( :'(  Despite the rim being really smooth it seems marked.

What have i done ??????? I did rinse properly, should i of polished straight away yesterday ???????????


Good rim with a few bits of polish on it, no marks at all.  This one was polished straight away after de-annodising and rinsing.




The blemished rim that was left unpolished for 24hrs. Its the darker marks that are the problem, the lighter marks are the good bits.




Cheers

Andy

Gashead:
Andy - give Paul at customcolour a pm - Im sure he will help you out !

Sorry I don't know the answer but I'm sure Paul will sort it  :daumenhoch:

southern andy:
Spoke to Paul earlier Nick as he has some DC Tech 3's of mine which he is re-annodising black, he said he could polish them quite easily, that was before i did this though.  :-[ :-[

I do have a spare rim if i have knackered it by leaving it over night without polish, the thing that is confusing me though is i did rinse it, if i hadn't of rinsed the oven pride off then fair enough.

Gashead:
I'd still call him Andy  :daumenhoch:

Waxintaxin:
the blemishes are where tho oven pride has not removed the layer of " annodised " metal
will polish out

or as nick says send it to CC

and get them done silver anno rather than non original polished finnish

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