Post by MyNewHobby on Sept 5, 2009 13:47:44 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids!
Yesterday I decided to ask my boss if he had any ideas about the pit polish issue. The man knows dam near everything. And ... as one that restores classic and antique Alfa Romeos and Jaguars, he has experienced a similar polish issue.
He asked me what kind of polish we were using and I told him either aluminum oxide or cerium oxide.
He explained that with the aluminum oxide, we needed to find something that worked against or ate aluminum. So he made two suggestions.
The first suggestion was to use a really heavy duty degreaser. He gave me a gallon jug of his to take home and play with. The other option ... which I will try maybe later in the weekend will be to use (at his suggestion) Muriatic acid (pool acid). I am now on a four day time off and I think I will be able to find if either one of the two things works.
Last night at around 5:30 pm, I started soaking these two pieces in the degreaser and checked them this morning, approximately 18 hours later.
Here are the before shots ..
AFTER ... As you can see .... some of the polish is gone on both pieces. The little crater on the green one, all the polish is gone.
What do you think?
Yesterday I decided to ask my boss if he had any ideas about the pit polish issue. The man knows dam near everything. And ... as one that restores classic and antique Alfa Romeos and Jaguars, he has experienced a similar polish issue.
He asked me what kind of polish we were using and I told him either aluminum oxide or cerium oxide.
He explained that with the aluminum oxide, we needed to find something that worked against or ate aluminum. So he made two suggestions.
The first suggestion was to use a really heavy duty degreaser. He gave me a gallon jug of his to take home and play with. The other option ... which I will try maybe later in the weekend will be to use (at his suggestion) Muriatic acid (pool acid). I am now on a four day time off and I think I will be able to find if either one of the two things works.
Last night at around 5:30 pm, I started soaking these two pieces in the degreaser and checked them this morning, approximately 18 hours later.
Here are the before shots ..
AFTER ... As you can see .... some of the polish is gone on both pieces. The little crater on the green one, all the polish is gone.
What do you think?
