Cleaning blocks and aluminum parts

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Dick Teal
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Re: Cleaning blocks and aluminum parts

Post by Dick Teal » Sat May 16, 2009 9:53 am

Tom,

Thanks for the tip on cleaning aluminum. The spelling is Alumiprep; google helped me find it.

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Re: Cleaning blocks and aluminum parts

Post by Dan Flanders » Sat May 16, 2009 2:26 pm

Before you drop a bunch of change on the AlumiPrep, I found this data sheet that describes the product:
http://www.chemical-supermarket.com/Alu ... -p365.html

Products sounds really good, but way down at the bottom was this little snippet:
"Alumiprep 33® should not be used on high copper bearing aluminum alloys
or aluminum castings."

Tom, it sounds like you've had experience using this stuff, what type of aluminum did you use it on and what were the results? I bet it would work really good on enduro tanks and floor pans.

Dan

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Re: Cleaning blocks and aluminum parts

Post by Chris Erb » Sat May 16, 2009 11:26 pm

Ron, just recently bought a small soda blaster from Harbor Freight Tools. Will try it out and let you know how it works.

Chris Erb

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