painting alliminium

jimjam11

hey i have a specialized langster with crabon forks and alliminium frame and was wondering how i wud strip off the original paint job?
cheers

abcdggs

You can use paint stripper

But only on the aluminium. You'd need to remove the fork before doing and paint stripping

dave2pvd

FYI, it's spelled aluminum

abcdggs

dictionary says yes, who knew. i always thought them yanks just pronounced it weirdly...

notice no little red line under both

Run_to_da_hills

Aluminum is the yankie for Aluminium.

For painting aluminium you will need an etch primer, if not the paint will flake off as the aluminum oxidizes.

Depending what you want you could get it anodised by a specialist,

Years ago there was a craze for Shimano black Dura_ace anodised products.

There is a crowd in Shannon Industrial Estate that anodizes industrial products, I'm sure if you approach them with a few bits and bobs they would do it for cash.

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abcdggs

Does aluminium oxidize like steel?? i had thought it wouldn't...

Run_to_da_hills

abcdggs wrote: »

Does aluminium oxidize like steel?? i had thought it wouldn't...

Worse !!!

I call it Alzheimer's disease. :eek:

DirkVoodoo

Yes it does oxidise, if you ever see heavily oxidised aluminium it will have white splotches all over it. A thin layer of alumina forms almost instantly on bare aluminium.

abcdggs

Will aluminium rust, (yes i know it's not rust) these guys seem to think that it's not much of an issue so long as you look after your bike. So it seems like this is a non-issue