Best way to deep clean Anodised Aluminium?

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I am looking for sugestions on how to restore the Anodised (Gold) carriers for SFC 1000 300mm Brembo rotors
They have 20 years of shit built up on them and my various attempts to clean them up is so far not working at all well.

Thanks for your suggestions in advance
 
I bought some Autosol the other day and there was a pamphlet in the box with info on different Autosols. And yes they make one for Anodised Alloy. Have a google for review, apparently the std Aluminium Autosol is to strong for anodised
 
Soda blast brings up the old Brembo anodise brilliantly. An "Air Boy" handheld soda blast gun, bicarb soda from Costco - comes up like new or as close to it as the original anodise condition allows. It strips off paint if someone has previously overpainted them but does not harm the anodise at all. Magic!
 
breganzane said:
Soda blast brings up the old Brembo anodise brilliantly. An "Air Boy" handheld soda blast gun, bicarb soda from Costco - comes up like new or as close to it as the original anodise condition allows. It strips off paint if someone has previously overpainted them but does not harm the anodise at all. Magic!
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Yup. I bought go t an all in one soda pistol for my brake disc carriers and it was kick ass , just plug it into a compressor and off you go. Works wonders at stripping paint of wood too
 
Thanks for the suggestions all.
I tried Autosol Vince and I figure it would take me a month of sundays to do the job.
Soda blasting seems to be the favourite option followed by Jiz.
I think I will give the Soda blasting a go first.
I assume the soda blasting would also work on the Brembo Gold line calipers with no unwanted consequences?

Thanks for the input.
Cheers
BK
 
Will this clean up my 40 year old grotty engine cases ?? Or, would I be best getting someone to vapour blast ?? Like the idea of being able to do it myself but done want to compromise the finish. Cheers Steve
 
I brought a cheap $40 sand blasting gun and 20kgs of bi-carb soda to do my cases. Came out great. Not as flash as vapour blast but I did it at home. I live remote so don't have easy access to all the flash services. You'll need a decent compressor though.
Best thing is it's water soluble and doesn't use grit.
 

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motoddrob said:
I brought a cheap $40 sand blasting gun and 20kgs of bi-carb soda to do my cases. Came out great. Not as flash as vapour blast but I did it at home. I live remote so don't have easy access to all the flash services. You'll need a decent compressor though.
Best thing is it's water soluble and doesn't use grit.
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Hi Rob, Did you Soda Blast the engine completly assembled? If so did you have any issues with ingress of the soda?
I also live remote now so same issue plus This motor only has 18K on it so I do not really want to pull it all apart to have it vapour blast if I can avoid it!
I have a decent compressor so will give it a go I reckon.
I assume you blocked off any ports and masked all the alloy covers etc.

PS I hope to see you in October
Cheers
BK
 
Hi Bruce. My motor was apart so wasn't worried about ingress.
Can't see any reason the soda would find it's way inside if .properly masked off. My compressor puts out about 16cfm so not mega pressure.
I like it as it's not grit and it's water soluble. Do it outside the surrounds are covered in soda gone with the next rain.
October is the plan👍🍻
 
motoddrob said:
Hi Bruce. My motor was apart so wasn't worried about ingress.
Can't see any reason the soda would find it's way inside if .properly masked off. My compressor puts out about 16cfm so not mega pressure.
I like it as it's not grit and it's water soluble. Do it outside the surrounds are covered in soda gone with the next rain.
October is the plan👍🍻
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