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Old 05-12-2018, 06:48 PM
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Default Easy-off to restore anodized wheels

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The wheels on our newly purchased 85 need cleaning and restoration. Luckily, none of them are pitted, but they need to be deep cleaned and polished. I noted on YouTube that a number of people have used easy off oven cleaner to clean anodized aluminum surfaces (though not specifically shark wheels).

Has anyone tried this?
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Ya, it has sodium hydroxide in it...and anodizing is a surface is just oxidizing it.
Al is always oxidized...passivation..in open air, even clean pure Al.

Sodium hydroxide will dissolve the oxide layer.

Oven cleaner.
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Place in Green Bay will re-anodize them for 75-100 a wheel.

You may not need to remove the old before having it done. The last thing you want is bare aluminum wheels, so have a plan to do something like paint or anodizing before starting the removal process.



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