John, The active ingredient in Easy Off is lye. It removed what was left of the anodizing and/or paint. What was left after hosing it down was some powdery/grainy residue in the angles and crevises. A wire wheel took care of that but went through the gray tarnish to the bright aluminum. The gray didn't look bad. If I can't find some aluminum cleaner that's eazy to use, I might spray more Easy Off on the bright areas and see if I can get an even coat of the gray tarnish or whatever it is.
Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Innis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Larry Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 8:54 PM Subject: Re: bellhouse Not sure what is in easy-off, but you may be in big trouble here. Any thing with Hydrochloric acid (HCL) or bleach (same thing) is very bad for aluminum. HCL will dissolve aluminum. Something like a bellhousing is actually an alloy of aluminum, also having copper, magnesium, tin, etc. Using a cleaner will HCL will actually dissolve some of the Aluminum off the surface and leave the other metals *** http://www.team.net/the-local *** Your messages not reaching the list? Check out http://www.team.net/posting.html *** unsubscribe/change address requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or try *** http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool *** http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo *** Archives at http://www.team.net/archive *** Edit your replies!
