RobBrown
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 posted on 14/10/02 at 12:46 PM |
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Aluminium cleaner
Do any of you know of a good Aluminium cleaner. I have got a conventional household metal cleaner, but it just seems to make a lot of black mess and
doesn't make anything clean at all.
Thanks in advance
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 14/10/02 at 01:03 PM |
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Have a look at Frost's products - not cheap, but quite a range to chose from.
www.frost.co.uk
Several choices of ali cleaner, from stuff for castings to sheet metal cleaner (Alu-Magic).
David
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locodude
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| posted on 14/10/02 at 05:06 PM |
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Alu-magic is good but like most ali cleaners it's donkey work to get off. Once a good finish has been obtained though you can keep it in pretty good
nick using a brasso style wadding which is much less aggro. The caterham boys tend to go for mothers polish, never used it myself though.
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Peteff
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| posted on 14/10/02 at 06:49 PM |
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I got some stuff called Peek metal polish. It's like solvol autosol but cheaper. Any abrasive cleaner is going to black up because it takes the top
layer off. If you don't use a buffer it's elbow power  or paint it. I like mine with a dull finish anyway  .
yours, Pete.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Liam
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| posted on 14/10/02 at 07:12 PM |
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I went through a tight-arse phase of making my own beer at university. One time we sterilised some odds and ends in an aluminium saucepan - and boy
did the inside of that look brand new afterwards! That's cos the Bruclense sterilising agent effortlessly removed the surface layer of the ali
saucepan whilst making a slight fizzing sound, and of course it rinsed right off with water  .
Fine if you dont mind your ali bits being a tiny bit thinner than they used to be . I might try a bit on my Sierra diff.
I also discovered how good brick acid is at removing surface rust from steel. And boy did THAT batch of hombrew taste good*.
Liam
* I didn't really put brick acid in homebrew, and I don't recommend you do either - unless you're rusty.
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steve m
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| posted on 14/10/02 at 11:33 PM |
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i use a combination of T cut" and "peek"
also "auto glym alui cleaner" is very good
but about £8 a bottle
if you are still building and want a good polished alui car i have it on very good authority that you can buff all the panels to a mirror finish and
then laquer (synthetic) all around including the backs of the panels and edges, but this would not work on a built car as moisture would get in and
rip the laquer of in a very short time
i wish i had laqued my car as it would save about 2 days polishing b4 every drive
or you could by the ison blade as its in stainless (5% comission if sold jon)
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