Anodised Finish

[GARYJL]

I need to clean up the heel plates on my bike and would like to

have them back to a nice even anodised finish again.

Is there anything you can use to get them back to the original

finish, I have a dremel but im not sure if I use it if it will leave

them as a polished finish ?

[Guest]

anodised is a over finish, so if you dremel, you will strip through and into the alloy, get a polishing kit and polish them..

or send them off to be anodised, theres normally a company in Streetfighter mag...

[GARYJL]

If I use the dremel with a polishing head on it will it give

a polished mirror finish ?

[Guest]

If I use the dremel with a polishing head on it will it give

a polished mirror finish ?

with a lot of time and patience, yes, i have a polishing kit which has 3 grades of mops, and 3 clays, along with a bag of white powder??????

think its for the final polish....

[Guest]

Youll never get a mirror finish with a dremel,well in about 6 months and 2 million mop heads ,polishing kits that go on your drill or you can get adaptors that replace the stone wheels on bench grinders

The white powder is vienna lime and its used to clean the black off after polishing

http://www.thepolishingshop.co.uk/acata ... ders_.html

plus anodizing is a bitch to remove,try using some fine wet n dry to get the anodizing off before you polish

click on the link in my sig,have look at my polishing efforts

[Guest]

click on the link in my sig,have look at my polishing efforts

thats a nice bike Gary,

[Guest]

click on the link in my sig,have look at my polishing efforts

thats a nice bike Gary,

 

Cheers mate,it took me 2 years to get it like that,

[Colin the Bear]

Anodising consists of an electricaly induced oxidised layer on polished aluminium. This can be dyed for effects like gold or blues and reds. It can then be laquered.

As the laquer chips it lets the salt in. Caustic soda will remove the anodised layer. Steady as you go though. Soaking in a weak solution gives best results.

For small areas I've had good results using an electric toothbrush and good old Autosol. Followed by toothpaste , a cheap fine polish.

The dremel tends to throw the polish off with its spin action whereas the oscillating of the toothbrush lets you work it.

[Guest]

Anodising consists of an electricaly induced oxidised layer on polished aluminium. This can be dyed for effects like gold or blues and reds. It can then be laquered.

As the laquer chips it lets the salt in. Caustic soda will remove the anodised layer. Steady as you go though. Soaking in a weak solution gives best results.

For small areas I've had good results using an electric toothbrush and good old Autosol. Followed by toothpaste , a cheap fine polish.

The dremel tends to throw the polish off with its spin action whereas the oscillating of the toothbrush lets you work it.

 

I assume you borrowed the wife's tootbrush Colin

[GARYJL]

I was thinking about this today in work we have a small sand blasting cabinet

in work which is reasonably low pressure and uses a very fine powder so I thought

I could maybe use it to give the surface an even sandblast finish ??

[Colin the Bear]

It'll take a lot of polishing out if you don't like it.

[Guest akey]

Theres only one problem with polishing, as I am sure others on here will testify

IT GETS ADDICTIVE, take it from me, I had a GSX-R 750 WR with polished frame, swingarm, rearsets, yolks, fork lowers (you get the picture), even now I am thinking of polishing the tigers wheels FFS

[Guest]

Theres only one problem with polishing, as I am sure others on here will testify

IT GETS ADDICTIVE, take it from me, I had a GSX-R 750 WR with polished frame, swingarm, rearsets, yolks, fork lowers (you get the picture), even now I am thinking of polishing the tigers wheels FFS

and then theres keeping on top of it, when you don't fancy it anymore... Like JadeMongoose's rims, someone polished the rims, but he can't be arsed, so they don't look like they should...

that said, i've polished the edge of a stainless can, and am now eyeing up the rear springs, (twin shox)..... but thats my limit... well, i've had polishing mops since my Bandit, but just bought stainless add-ons... or polished covers....., and the Katana wasn't worth it, wouldn't have suited an 80's bike..