removing aluminum anodizing

CudaChick1968 said
Steve, thanks for those links. I had to laugh at one of the feedback ratings if indeed those belong to our member above ...

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May-20-13 17:01
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The item was a single aerosol can of Eastwood's Paint and Powder Coating Stripper purchased just this week for $19.94.

I made the mistake of buying a gallon of that stuff once for sixty bucks ... found the same thing in its original full-strength formulation from Solvent Kleen for less than half the price.

Regardless of whether this thread stays informative or turns into a "my way is better than yours!" war, the main point of any message board is an exchange of information to reach a common goal. There are more than five years' worth of threads here at a minimum about the removal of anodizing (look at the bottom of the page to see the Similar Threads). All we can do is toss our experiences out there for [hopefully] improvement of the greater good.

:oops: I didn't mean to come across as my way was better (cheaper yes) but better nope. heck purple power and super clean are even cheaper and work too! but I'm lazy and having tried the cleaner method, draino method and purple power way(that got rid of the grease ground in my hands when I had a latex glove spring a leak and didn't eat my hands up. Also Guilty as charged I tested Easywoods stuff to see if it works any better) Draino works better than easyoff if you can submerge the part and over all is cheaper than easy-off since You don't use the whole can of draino and can re-use the heck out of it before it doesn't clean any more, but ya gotta watch it cause it will eat the metal(hands too even in latex gloves included. don't ask me how I know) I now use only those ugly green gloves that say they are chemical safe, and my Mom used those things for years cleaning her oven without a leak! My grill wouldn't fit in the bucket so I did the easy off thing (couldn't find draino at the store that day either!) the Wife brought some home for me from the same store and told me to "look down once in a while and I might find it" :banghead: