Just get a good get a good aluminum polish (like MOTHER'S) and a buffing
wheel, there's a warning on easyoff about using it on aluminum. I used a
small soft wire wheel and then the aluminum polish on the aluminum piece
that goes on top of the water pump with excellent results.
Dave Korzun
'69 GT6
-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Nugent <A.Nugent@unsw.edu.au>
To: Shawn Loseke <SLoseke@vines.ColoState.EDU>
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 7:51 PM
Subject: re: Polishing SU suction chamber cover
>
>Shawn,
>
>At 08:11 9/09/98 -0600, you wrote:
>> I know this will sound strange, but I have heard that oven cleaner
>>works well on this. I haven't tried it myself yet. Some people in my club
>>have used it and have had very good results. You might try it on a small
>>section and see how it works. I'll try it on my ZS 175CD's and let
>>everybody know.
>
>Oven cleaner is caustic, which, as someone recently pointed out (in
>connection with carbon removal), eats aluminum. Used sparingly, it should
be
>great for polishing aluminum, but I wouldn't get it near any
>critical-tolerance surfaces.
>
>Allen Nugent
>Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
>University of New South Wales
>Sydney 2052 Australia
>
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