Removing gold anodizing from shocks

Post by **Asso_man!** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:27 am

To strip off without any danger a pair of rear gold anodized shocks that were quite worn, I decided to use the manual sandblasting technique like proposed in another post. It took me some time but if you don't have to strip the shock caps like me, an hour for two shocks must do.

The worn gold shock before being sandblasted with a 600 grade sandpaper:

Post by **Asso_man!** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:39 am

before and after sandpapering two times, firstly with 600 grade designed for 1:1 car bodies, secondly with a 3M 150 (thin) sandpaper, then polishing them with a liquid metal polishing product from HG ( http://www.hginternational.com/ ). I'm definitely quite happy with the result and as I'm a little bit lazy, I decided not to strip the bottom and the top end collar, wich is fine...

Post by **Asso_man!** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:40 am

The differnece between a polished shock and unpolished one, striking

Post by **Asso_man!** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:43 am

The two rear shocks are now ready to be installed on the A&L chassis...

Post by **Asso_man!** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:44 am

Post by **Asso_man!** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:46 am

a bottom view

Post by **Asso_man!** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:47 am

Post by **Asso_man!** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:52 am

The completed chassis with truck front gold shocks that are too good to be stripped... they'll remain like that maybe until I find a worse pair... time will tell... The wing is only there for show

Post by **shodog** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:34 pm

Those look pretty good. were you going for that matt finish or a high shine. You could easily get those to look like chrome.

Post by **Asso_man!** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:57 pm

I like them already like that, but I could always polish them more...

Post by **scr8p** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:55 pm

those shocks have a cool machined look to them. i think i'd leave them like that.

Post by **Asso_man!** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:47 am

thanks Scr8p, they will only be polished once in a while to keep on blinging, but it seems I have a new disorder, I also stripped the nose plate, which was in a poor state already, now aluminium front A-arms could still add something though

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