You could sand and polish the logos off, but depending on how heavy the anodizing is you may have to remove a fair bit of metal. You'd probably need to start with a fine wet-dry sanding paper, then move through a couple of grades of polish.
The usual method is with caustic - lye, or Easy-Off oven cleaner (the full-strength stuff, not the milder reformulated cleaner), then an acid wash to neutralize, then a thorough rinse. It should be obvious, but wear gloves, goggles, face sheild, etc. to protect your skin when usiung caustic! Google turned up references to using a cleaner called Greased Lightening - see http://www.rcnitrotalk.com/de-anodizing-and-polishing-aluminum/ for a method. You may find that after removing the anodizing, the parts will have an uneven matte finish - you'll need to polish them to make them look good again. Be prepared for some tedious detail work on a derailleur! A little searching will turn up chemical kits to do the stripping a little more controllably than with lye, but the minimum quantitied may be too large to be economical. Take a look at http://www.caswellplating.com/ - lots of fun with home chemistry there! Bill On Dec 13, 7:19 am, Wally <wwer...@redarrowgroup.com> wrote: > I've got a new wild hair - I've been thinking of polishing off the > logos on my derailleur and brake levers. They say "Shimano 105" or > just "Shimano", and I was thinking that a plain silver look would > compliment my Rambouillet a bit better. > > I know, you can't see the logos from more than a few feet away, but > winter is here, and why not? > > Does anyone have any experience in doing this? Does it work? What > polishing compound and/or tools did you successfully use? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
