Turn Anodized Aluminum to clean Aluminum

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.