How to clean aluminum serpantine brackets?
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How to clean aluminum serpantine brackets?
My brackets are full of grime and etc. Is there any solvants or something I can stick it into and it will make it clean like new?
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Any ideas?
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Re: How to clean aluminum serpantine brackets?
The only solution I found was to bead blast them.Tried simple green and a host of other solvents, They worked to clean them up but not "new" looking.
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Re: How to clean aluminum serpantine brackets?
Simple Green will work great to remove the oil/grime/gunk on them, but won't make them look new. Bead blasting will work, but you can also try cookingthem. Put them in a oven(not the one in your kitchen) at 400* for about a half hour. This will cause any oil/grease/etc to leach out of them and should leave them looking nice and new. Its how parts are cleaned prior to powdercoating them. You could also just have them powdercoated.
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Re: How to clean aluminum serpantine brackets?
HOT TANK THE F*** out of them , i just did this to my brackets , then i painted them gray , it cost me 5 dollars to hot tank my brackets , the oil stains dont come off completly , thats why i painted mine , i'll try to get some pix tomorrow
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Re: How to clean aluminum serpantine brackets?
This may sound like a dumb question but where can I look to have them bead blasted?
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Re: How to clean aluminum serpantine brackets?
rough cast aluminum wheel cleaner
follow the direction to the letter, its just acid and left on to long will turn it black. But will clean the shiet out of it. Not easy to find always but works great.
follow the direction to the letter, its just acid and left on to long will turn it black. But will clean the shiet out of it. Not easy to find always but works great.
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Re: How to clean aluminum serpantine brackets?
A machine shop , when i got my heads resurfaced at this shopthat only secializedin heads , they had just bead blasted some tiny little toyota heads , they were alluminum , they look like raw alluminum "not shiny"dusty as heck , im assuming that the brackets would look the same .
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