Pete Rutledge wrote:
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> If you coat the anodized part with original Easy-off Oven Cleaner for a few
> minutes, it will remove the anodized layer and you can go straight to
> rubbing compound to bring up the shine. Of course you may still want to do
> some localized sanding (from coarse to fine) to remove gouges and scratches.
> Finally a good coat of wax will help retain the shine for many months. As
> far a originality is concerned, I prefer a shiny, scratchless, gougeless
> unanodized (but unoriginal) aluminum part to a scratched, gouged, chaulky
> white but original anodized part. Quite a bit of info on the topic of
> anodizing can be found in the CR archives.
Great info Pete!
After removing the anodizing (chrome shops the also did anodizing used to do this for free) I would use Swiss pattern files to "profile" the parts. This involved removing the mold parting lines and any waviness in the surfaces of the parts till they looked like the original idea of the part the manufacturer had in mind in the first place. Very tedious work but the result spoke for itself!
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, CA
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