So Im trying to build a retro and nobody makes some of the parts I want to use in gold ano. So Im faced with the fact Im gonna have to have some custom work done, some of said parts only come in colors I dont want. Ive read the oven cleaner trick allready, does it really work? Am I gonna be able to re-ano the part in this beautiful color? In which case should I buy all my alloy parts in silver and send the whole lot to the ano guy? As I am trying to achive "show" status. As Im sure wild color variances dont score so good with judges. Thanks for any help.

If you want consistency in the gold color, then definitely buy it all in polished and send it at the same time, cause your annodiser will throw all the parts in the same tank or batch & you have a better chance of your gold being close in color.

As far as the judges, who cares what they think....you need to feel good about it, no one else.

If you're pissed off, re-do it

just get the parts you want and have the anodizer strip them (*some silver parts are clear ano'd).

keep in mind that different alloys (6061, 7075 etc) and different sufaces (macined, polished etc) may take the dye differently and turn out different shades, even if done at the same time/tank.

The parts I used on my Haro retro were all black when I got them. I use an extra fine media to blast them, buff them on a wheel, then clean and powder coat with a translucent. People at Rockford commented all day thinking they were anodized. There still in good shape after 3 years and several owners.

Take a AL pan that you would bake a pie in and fill it with bleach 2/3 to the top and add a little finger nail polish remover and let it set for a few minutes, you will be suprized of the outcome....

Why dont you just tell us the outcome so we dont have to guess.

Ooh, ooh, pick me, I know this one!





Lye. Caustic Soda, Sodium Hydroxide. All the same, it's what removes it. Check the polishing thread, in the Profile stem section of it, for my .02 with pix on the subject.