Berg beadlock rings?
 

Are the Berg beadlock rings anodized or powdercoated? I figured anodized but I tried stripping them with the heavy duty(yellow can) oven cleaner and after hours it only turned the coating mostly black. I could scrape some of it off with a knife but it didn't seem to be as easy as the 10-minute stripping I read about in the AX10 section.

ano and oven cleaner will get the gold off "thumbsup"

Ok, then did I not leave it long enough? Maybe used too much? I had the whole container foamed over.

how long did you leave it on for ? some of the ano is tougher then the other you might even have to take some sandpaper ruff it up a little then try again

I left it a couple hours. I just redid it and set it out on the porch. You can't leave it on too long right?

i dont think that leaving it on to long will hurt any thing just every ten minutes take a brusk or somthing move it around see if it is coming off you still will have to polish them to get the residue off of them

first YES> anything that will strip the anodizing, over time will damage the aluminum by actually desolving the aluminum in it. that black slimy top coating your seeing is likly disolved aluminum.

also, different grades of aluminum will react differently to the varius ano removing chemicals. some will just go black and pit, opening tolerances along the way.


so use with care and keep a GOOD eye on it. i soak the parts a bit and scrub then rinse. i repeat this process. and yes differnt types of aluminum may take longer to get rid of. A decrotive ano, tyically is what we get in RC, is pretty thin, and usuallys desolves right off, or can be easily sanded off. this is also called type II ano. there is type III ano, also known as hard ano, and as the name suggests, is harder and will take longer to remove. due to the anodizing layers pour size, it can only take 3 colors for the most part, Black, Green and Grey, thus why you only see these color choices on Hard Anod stuff.

make sure you are useing the OLD School easy off. non of this new non toxic Green developed stuff. you need the GOOD STUFF.


i use draino and water, worx great, and pretty quick. carefull or it will burn (disolve too much material) the parts, and your skin.

Ok, sounds like I did too much instead of not enough. Thanks for all the info guys. I only did the back 4 rings so if they get a little pitted or whatever, it won't be too big a deal. I actually left them overnight and till this evening. Just washed them off and left them to fool with later. They were all black so I'm eating away at the aluminum.

Well, too much is much too much. I tooke them to the wire wheel on the bench grinder to get the "burnt aluminum" off and they're slightly pitted. Not a bad thing though. Kinda look like they are cast aluminum that way. So in the future if I need to make something aluminum look either handmade/hammered or cast then I know what technique to use. I'll just powdercoat over them, use them on the backs. I can powdercoat right over the anodizing right, just scuff it a little?