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Post by paddles on Dec 5, 2008 9:31:06 GMT 10
we need to clean up the old aluminium window frames of our caravan, over the years they have been abused in various quick fix methods. and have various gunks, etc on them, I gave them a quick, light scrub with steelwool and soap, but there is hard set, nasty stuff left.
can aluminum be sandblasted clean? can I use a wire brush on the drill? (Scraping with a screwdriver did not work, leaving larger scars no matter how carefull i worked.)
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Post by sportsman 1 on Dec 5, 2008 14:10:24 GMT 10
dont sandblast, get them hydroblasted (water blasting).
They should come up like new!
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Post by beetlesbailey on Dec 12, 2008 16:56:22 GMT 10
Hi, I have been involved in cleaning and polishing 12 windows . here is our method which is (cheap and nasty). I had little paint on mine and tried the wire buff wheel. DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!
I then polished the scatches this created with a 6" buff cleaning mop and alum cleaning wax then polished them with a soft polishing mop on the bench grinder.
I then hand polished them but still show the damage from the wire wheel.
My mate Neill sande his with wet and dry (wet) and got most of the paint and glue etc off and used my buffing methods to a better result.
Some scraping was neccessary on a few places where harder stuff was on them. Be careful with this as scatches are hard to remove.
A professional plating shop could polish them for you but at what cost I dont know.
What type of van is it? we may have a source for new rubbers.
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Post by sutcac on Dec 12, 2008 18:58:07 GMT 10
............I'm with Sportsman1 on this one..........
..................the guy below comes with the highest recommendation from one of our Vic. EH club members...........
...................Greg Wood
12/20 George St
Sandringham
03 95970387
Cheers , Sutcac
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