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PainZ
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9th Jan 06 at 12:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Hey all,

I want to clean my aluminum bells on ym brakes.. They have slightly tarnished over the last year since I have had them and I am wondering what is the best thing to clean them with..

Stainless steel etc I use autosol on.. however I have never had to clean aluminum before..

The pic below shows what I want to clean.. I think it must be an aluminum alloy as it has that bluey tint to it..



Anyone recommend a product to use?

Cheers,

Pete
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peek or autosol id say, or brasso....
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elbow grease
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id say brasso
PainZ
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could you use brasso on aluminum? I thought it was just brass?? Good idea mind..
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use silvo (seriously)
CorsAsh
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just use autosol as usual, should get em back nice again. Thing with aluminium is it forms a protective oxide layer over it, so even if you take the surface off polishing them up, it'll come back again and be good as new.
Ojc
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What Ashinder says.
CorsAsh
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Hold me at PVS Ollie?
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quote:
Originally posted by PainZ
could you use brasso on aluminum? I thought it was just brass?? Good idea mind..

Look im my garage at the pics of the head off my gokart, this was done using wire wool and autosol....

 
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