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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: dj_benice on August 23, 2006, 03:41 PM

Title: Araya restoration/polishing?
Post by: dj_benice on August 23, 2006, 03:41 PM: Hi,

Thinkin of strippin some araya 20 x 1.75 silvers n polishin em up any tips/advice greatly appreciated. If this has been covered before please post me a kick up the butt n point me in the right direction ;D If nobody has covered this maybe I could take some pics n post up a mini how-to?

Cheers
Peter
Title: Re: Araya restoration/polishing?
Post by: dj_benice on August 23, 2006, 06:38 PM: Bump!!! C'mon kids I got a can of nitromors mousse here n I am itching to give em a go please give me sound advice before I go getting medieval on their a55 n make a right mess :crazy2:
Title: Re: Araya restoration/polishing?
Post by: theRuler on August 23, 2006, 06:40 PM: you need oven pride mate!!!
they sell it in tescos

its caustic, and will remove annodising, but not as vicious as caustic soda
Title: Re: Araya restoration/polishing?
Post by: dj_benice on August 23, 2006, 07:48 PM: Cheers fella heading to asda now :) No tescos in de-preston...
Title: Re: Araya restoration/polishing?
Post by: Rombloke on August 23, 2006, 08:01 PM: with some oven pride these hubs, originally red, and rims, that were black, came up a treat, there is also about 1/2 hr put into those bits in polishing on the buffer and by hand

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/57694758.jpg)

Dave
Title: Re: Araya restoration/polishing?
Post by: dj_benice on August 23, 2006, 08:35 PM: Thanks for all this guys, is there anything else I should know, or is it just a case of follow the destructions on the box?
Title: Re: Araya restoration/polishing?
Post by: sawzall on August 23, 2006, 08:40 PM: (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y77/sawzall717/getready1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y77/sawzall717/glove2.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y77/sawzall717/fizz3.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y77/sawzall717/rinse5.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y77/sawzall717/finished7.jpg)

1) all the things you need to strip anno + safety goggles
2)drop item in caustic using gloves
3)leave item in caustic for about 30 secs until it starts to bubble, then check & repeat process if anno remains
4)once all traces of anno have gone rinse in clean water to neutralise,it may turn black but this will clean off with a scotch bright
5)then all thats left to do is polish,best done with a bench polisher then finish by hand
Title: Re: Araya restoration/polishing?
Post by: dj_benice on August 23, 2006, 08:43 PM: sweet lookin bits, only got an elbow grease polsiher though in the words of scott "I may be some time"