caustic soda..........

[stevied]

i just tryed to de anodise a rim and hub. i put a pot of caustic in a big bucket of water and nothin seems to have happened?
how much caustic do i need roughly.
i used a whole 500g pot. and wheres the best place to buy it from. it cost me £3 from homebase for 500g.
think they robbed me. bastsrds

[danny silverstreak]

orbs ya man he is the caustic soda god

[motomagII]

if it didnt move its not anodising as you dont need loads really try bit paint stripper it may work if they not annodised greg

[sawzall]

i did a pair of hard anno pro class rims which took alot longer than usual anno,if you are sure its anno add some more caustic go on dont be shy

[harris]

put some hubs in costic last week nearly went blind burnt myself and ballsed up the hubs
left them in a tad to long trying to get them smoothed back out at polishers 

[sawzall]

 stevied ,check out de anno post theres a how to on there hope this helps

[oberonspacefruit]

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=9146.15;topicseen

[ORB]

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=9335.0

[revcore]

I use caustic soda granules with hot water. Don't breath in the fumes, Don't get it on your skin and don't leave the parts in the caustic soda for too long or else it will eat away at the aluminium.

[harris]

done that and that and that and fell over trying to get out of fumes then my leg gave way   

[oberonspacefruit]

was it made of aluminium?

[theRuler]

done that and that and that and fell over trying to get out of fumes then my leg gave way   

lol

was it made of aluminium?

LOL

[harris]

gt 48 hole hubs unsealed so not so bad chromed i was putting them on my z48 z rims was not now

[oberonspacefruit]

that sentence hurts my head.

[harris]

hurts my pocket

[theRuler]

gt 48 hole hubs unsealed so not so bad chromed i was putting them on my z48 z rims was not now

 

[harris]

hear are the poor little suckers more pits than
a spotty teenager i am getting them polished a tad to see if they will smooth out if not 3 hours in costic soda

[stevied]

hmmmmmm. anyone ever stripped araya aeros in silver?
i done a hub and a rim last night, hub come out spot on took off all black anno and it polished up a treat.
however, the rim didnt do buggerall.
left it in for about hour and a half and still looked the fecking same apart from the exposed alloy had discoloured a bit.

[sawzall]

try paint stripper rim might be lacquered