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| posted on November 13th, 2005 at 09:43 PM |
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Cleaning up your body VIN tag?
Hey all,
Anyone else have a badly corroded Alliy body VIN tag and managed to clean and polish it?
How did you do it?
Cheers!
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helterskelter400
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| posted on November 13th, 2005 at 10:10 PM |
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autosol paste & elbow grease (not much required) for the thin tag. i'v not seen a badly corroded one. wonder how coke woiuld work. best not use acid
or base strong engine cleaner.
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| posted on November 14th, 2005 at 02:37 PM |
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Yeah go the polish. I've used Brasso and found it to work a treat. On a really bad one I bead blasted it and it looks like new.....
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| posted on November 14th, 2005 at 10:32 PM |
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Screwed mine to a piece of wood with small screws-then cleaned it on my brass polisher using both the coarse and smooth pads.Then sprayed some clear
on it.Also drilled the body ID plate rivets out and had it cad plated.
[ Edited on 14-11-2005 by nbturbo ]
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| posted on November 15th, 2005 at 02:33 AM |
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If you are taking it off the car then just place it in a sloution of baking soda...
(overnight should do it, but keep an eye on it, the stronger the solution the quicker it works)...
It will come up BETTER than brand new and you won't have to drip a single bead of sweat in the process...
I hate to admit it, but man, I think you're right....
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| posted on November 15th, 2005 at 06:19 AM |
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Thats the clever answer I was looking for, I knew there must be something like that.
I will give it a go. Will hopefully get some pics of the process.
Many Thanks Daniel.
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| posted on November 15th, 2005 at 07:02 AM |
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just place it in a sloution of baking soda...
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Keep an eye on it especially if you make a strong solution, as its Caustic and EATS aluminium very quick. You wont have an ID plate if you leave
it too long
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| posted on November 15th, 2005 at 07:16 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by vw54
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just place it in a sloution of baking soda...
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Keep an eye on it especially if you make a strong solution, as its Caustic and EATS aluminium very quick. You wont have an ID plate if you leave
it too long
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posted by WABaja
(overnight should do it, but keep an eye on it, the stronger the solution the quicker it works)...
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:P
I hate to admit it, but man, I think you're right....
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| posted on November 15th, 2005 at 09:18 AM |
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Didn't read your question properly-I polished the aluminium 'made in western germany' plate,and had the tin vehicle ID cad plated
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| posted on January 9th, 2006 at 08:23 PM |
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So the 'Made in' plate is ally and the other plate is tin?
Cheers
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