I used "Eagle One" aluminum mag wheel cleaner - your
local auto paint shop should have an aluminum cleaner
- Dupont makes an aluminum cleaner -- I'll get the
details on that one if you're interested.
Toby 2029
--- Geven Aston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Acid washed with what...Muratic Acid?
> Thanks, Geven
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toby Folwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 12:33 AM
> Subject: [VAC] tuna: acid wash
>
>
> >I acid washed mine -- there are really no apparent
> >long term effects two doing this right once. you
> are
> >taking a little (and I mean very little) aluminum
> off
> >the surface and cleaning it up a bit -- I wouldn't
> do
> >it every year -- but, once you've polished it up,
> >who'd want to go that far to re-polish eh?
> >
> >Toby 2029
> >
> >(soon to have pics for all to see...)
> >
> >...i intend to take my
> >> '49
> >> > to a truck wash, and, having first masked off
> >> windows and draped plastic
> >> > dropcloths over the tires, and subject the
> >> airstream to an 'acid wash'.
> >> This
> >> > is how they keep those steel and aluminum
> >> tanker-trucks so shiny... (i got
> >> > this tip from Sue Murphy at IowaBoys... )
> >> >
> >> > Now that I'm thinking about the extent to which
> >> this could have unintended
> >> > and disastrous effects, I think i'll take a
> >> section of the belly pan down
> >> > and try it on that, first... I'll keep you all
> >> posted...
> >> >
> >
> >
> >=====
> >Toby Folwick WBCCI # 2029
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