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Removing gold anodizing from shocks
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:27 am
by Asso_man!
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:
![Image](http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3152/strippinganodizing002nr2.jpg)
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:39 am
by Asso_man!
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...
![Image](http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/6006/strippinganodizing003wd9.jpg)
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:40 am
by Asso_man!
The differnece between a polished shock and unpolished one, striking
![Image](http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/8605/strippinganodizing005hw2.jpg)
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:43 am
by Asso_man!
The two rear shocks are now ready to be installed on the A&L chassis...
![Image](http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3636/strippinganodizing006en7.jpg)
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:44 am
by Asso_man!
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:46 am
by Asso_man!
a bottom view
![Image](http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/4148/strippinganodizing010rl2.jpg)
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:47 am
by Asso_man!
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:52 am
by Asso_man!
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
![Image](http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/8643/strippinganodizing016md7.jpg)
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:34 pm
by shodog
Those look pretty good. were you going for that matt finish or a high shine. You could easily get those to look like chrome.
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:57 pm
by Asso_man!
I like them already like that, but I could always polish them more...
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:55 pm
by scr8p
those shocks have a cool machined look to them. i think i'd leave them like that.
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:47 am
by Asso_man!