restore shine to alloy after strong degreasercastin

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:02 am

Can it be doen? A mate has warned me the degreaser I am about to use inside my intake to dissolve the carbon crap clinging to the sand cast texture can or does remove alloys nice siver sheen and dulls it, seen it before many times after a detailer has cleaned up for used car yards etc then use silicone spray all over to hide stuff

Post by **TOONGA** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:25 am

it can be done but the alloy will need to be buffed/polished again, I cant remember the name of the buffing compound but I do know it is specifically for aluminium.

TOONGA

Post by **yarney** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 12:42 pm

TOONGA wrote:it can be done but the alloy will need to be buffed/polished again, I cant remember the name of the buffing compound but I do know it is specifically for aluminium.

TOONGA

I think it is a wax

Jan

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 12:43 pm

I should have added rough cast exterior too! There probably is some nasty chemical to reverse the look. I got away with cleaning out the insides with this 'degreaser' that can be watered down 20:1, 50:1 or 100:1 depending on the use. Neat, it dissolves the carbon build up inside inlet manifolds , rocker shafts etc, actually left a shine inside

Cliff R · Post by **Cliff R** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 5:45 pm

Mothers Mag & Aluminium Polish.
Use this and some "elbow grease" (or buffing wheel) = lots of shiny alloy
Any motor spares (Auto 1, Repco etc) will have it

FROG · Post by **FROG** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:09 pm

Autosol is my personal favourite for aluminium

H-top · Post by **H-top** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:55 pm

+1 for autosol

takes me back to doing my brass in my army days.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:34 pm

+ 2 for Autosol it awesome stuff.

D3V1L · Post by **D3V1L** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:44 pm

autosol is good, but 2k is better.

work for a 4x4 shop and polish a lot of ally bars

brasso and a high speed buff works well and 2k with a slow speed buff is very good too

davo