Turn Anodized Aluminum to clean Aluminum - Page 2

Originally Posted by james23

I have some cleaning guide to clean Anodized Aluminum, Start with Wiping down your anodized aluminum surface with a damp sponge to remove general surface dirt. Spray the anodized aluminum with a high pressure rinse. Then spray the anodized aluminum with a high pressure rinse. Rinse this anodized aluminum surface with clean water and then dry it with towels.

I suggest only cleaning procedure.

Personally, the yard always downgrade all of my scrap anodized Al, so i decided to out smart them and clean all of my scrap heat sinks.
In less then 30 minutes, i almost doubled the value of my scrap Ali (several kilos worth).

i was confused whether anodized went under alum or paint alum so i threw my single piece of anodize heatsink with my extruded and watched the material guy sit there confused for bout 3 seconds then throw it with the rest of the clean.

and even if it did go with my painted, isnt painted only bout 10% less than regular alum



...also ive read a couple 'strip/paint your bike' threads and it seems like anodize comes off bout 10x easier than paint with most cleaners... i get the impression annodize is something thaats is easy to remove with any variety of methods. i know rubber breakpads will take the color off a rim in less than an hour

Originally Posted by bluemeate

i was confused whether anodized went under alum or paint alum so i threw my single piece of anodize heatsink with my extruded and watched the material guy sit there confused for bout 3 seconds then throw it with the rest of the clean.
and even if it did go with my painted, isnt painted only bout 10% less than regular alum

...also ive read a couple 'strip/paint your bike' threads and it seems like anodize comes off bout 10x easier than paint with most cleaners... i get the impression annodize is something thaats is easy to remove with any variety of methods. i know rubber breakpads will take the color off a rim in less than an hour

I think anodizing is applied with an acid bath but could be wrong.