Are LX headlight surrounds aluminium? And therefore can the anodising be removed with caustic soda and then metal polished. I have searched but didn't really find exactly what I was after. Thankyou
LX Headlight surrounds - polishing question
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Dasman56
, May 22 2015 03:51 PM
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Posted 22 May 2015 - 04:00 PM
As far as I'm aware they would be aluminium just like all the other models, so yes you can polish them after removing the coating.
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Posted 22 May 2015 - 04:14 PM
Are LX headlight surrounds aluminium? And therefore can the anodising be removed with caustic soda and then metal polished. I have searched but didn't really find exactly what I was after. Thankyou
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Posted 22 May 2015 - 07:58 PM
Apparantly caustic soda likes aluminium but could be wrong...just what i heard from someone who tried cleaning ally in caustic and ended up with not much left?
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Posted 22 May 2015 - 09:13 PM
Thanks guys. I'll give it a go tomorrow. :-)
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Posted 23 May 2015 - 01:25 AM
I cleaned mine up with steel wool then polished them with metal polish. They came up nicely.
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