Two quick questions

[dragnse7en]

Hello everyone

I've got two gold pan rollers, for restoring one car. One of the rollers is in terrible shape; some one did a bad job making their own stealth tranny holes, and there really isn't much to use for good parts.

Did AE anodize their chassis parts this dark? I apologize for the pic, as I only have a camera on my smartphone. IRL it doesn't look gold at all, and instead looks orange or a faded red (see below)

Also, I need some advice on cleaning the edges of the front shock tower. I washed the part, but the edges have a dirty look to them, when held at a certain angle (see below)

I tried to use a file to clean the edges up, but that black dirt look came right back. Is there another way to get rid of that?

[nvxwax]

Im not sure about the pan but as for the shock tower you could try a light sanding on the edges and then seal them with CA glue, Its hard to keep a light porous surface clean.

[Charlie don't surf]

Heavy degreasers like simple green will loosen that stuff up and rinse out under the highest pressure water avail, and the darker tub is just a later tub ( say 86' ish ) as the color intensity fluctuated a bit.

[nvxwax]

Heavy degreasers like simple green will loosen that stuff up and rinse out under the highest pressure water avail, and the darker tub is just a later tub ( say 86' ish ) as the color intensity fluctuated a bit.

Or what he said

[billetproofcustoms]

I agree with using the degreaser, let is soak a little bit to loosen it up, then I use a really stiff toothbrush and scrub. I have done the lightly sanding thing as well, both work good for me.

[JamesB77]

The pans for both of the cars I have are close to the same colour as yours. As for the cleaning, I have the same issure so will ahev to give the simple green a try.

[ImminentFailure]

I used 'greased lighting' which comes in a yellow bottle. I haven't found anything it wont clean up. I use it on rc10, and my 1/5 scale gaser. It's gental on the skin and even used it on a ton of plastics, but grease and grime just wipes away with paper towel.

[scr8p]

greased lightning will remove anodizing.

[Charlie don't surf]

greased lightning will remove anodizing.

And skin-

[dragnse7en]

Thanks for the replies guys!

Yes, I completely agree about the Greased Lightning; I saw a Youtube video on how to de-anodize aluminum, and the guy used rubber gloves and an ultrasonic hot tank. I'll opt for the simple green, b/c it probably smells a lot better than any other degreaser.

Thanks again!

[jwscab]

simple green will work on the plastic parts, but it also affects aluminum, especially bare aluminum, so be careful when using it on the chassis if you decide to.

[dragnse7en]

Good to know - thanks. I've used soft scrub on both the anodized aluminum and plastic parts, and I noticed that it can rub the anodizing off it's it's continuously scrubbed in one spot. I won't use either on the aluminum parts now . . .