Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Cleaning aluminum

[Jeff Greenfield (coyote]

One method that works and seems to last a long time, is the following.

After cleaning the AL with a wire brush and WD-40 ((I usually use a  
brush on an air powered die grinder), wipe the surface dry.

Then use some Rub-N-Buff (or is it Buff-N-Rub, I can never remember)  
cut with WD-40 to a consistency of a liquidy paste. Brush this ok  
liberally and then wipe the excess off.

Buff-N-Rub is available at michaels and although I forget the name of  
the color, there is a silver one that looks very much like natural  
aluminum.

Jeff

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On Dec 24, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Rick Lindsay <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello Friends,
>
> Merry Christmas and all the other salutations of the season!
>
> I write to you this Christmas Eve to talk about Ferraris.   
> Specifically, I want to ask about cleaning aluminum.  I have always  
> used cloth, steel wool or ScotchBrite lubricated with WD40 or  
> lacquer thinner and I like the results.  However, the finish does  
> not look 'new'.  I'd like to know a technique to get that really  
> clean white-aluminum finish of freshly cast aluminum.  I've tried  
> media blasting but the shop I visited used steel balls not glass,  
> plastic or shells.  The result was a dull gray finish that I didn't  
> like.  I ended up painting the part with 'Cast Coat Aluminum' engine  
> paint - a sad, second-class solution, if attractive.
>
> So today I ask; How does one get that 'new part' aluminum finish?
>
> best regards,
>
> rick
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