How To De-anodize and Polish Aluminum RC Parts

[WoodiE]

On my latest RC project I decided to de-anodize all of the aluminum parts of their purple color and reveal the bare metal finish.

Personally I like the look of bare metal better over a colored part. Many of you are familiar with the oven cleaner method of stripping off anodizing but in this article I’ll cover the often talked about Greased Lightning method for those who have not used it before.

After stripping off the anodizing I will also go over one of the methods of polishing the bare aluminum part to a mirror shine.

So let’s get started.

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[HPIguy]

Yep, I used roughly the same method years ago for Project Octopede.