{"id":1709,"date":"2015-04-25T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2015-05-02T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T16:27:09","slug":"73-honda-cb750-custom-build-part-24-cleaning-and-polishing-aluminum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/73-honda-cb750-custom-build-part-24-cleaning-and-polishing-aluminum\/","title":{"rendered":"73 Honda CB750 Custom Build Part 24 &#8211; Cleaning and polishing aluminum."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;m doing some final cleaning and polishing of a few aluminum parts. I made some sodium hydroxide to help get the job done. This solution also works well as a de-greaser that can be washed away with water. Sodium hydroxide is also known as Lye. It&#8217;s in all soaps in very dilute quantities. It&#8217;s also the primary ingredient in most off the shelf de-greasers like Purple Power. <\/p>\n<p><strong>USE CAUTION WITH SODIUM HYDROXIDE! WEAR EYE PROTECTION AND RUBBER GLOVES! IN CONCENTRATED FORM IT WILL SLOWLY DISSOLVE FLESH!<\/strong> ewwwwwwwwwww <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sodium Hydroxide will eat aluminum! The byproduct is hydrogen gas. Use a dilute solution (2 &#8211; 3 tablespoons per gallon of water) in a well ventilated area. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a caustic base chemical and can really irritate bare skin. If you get a concentrated amount on your skin rinse thoroughly with water. Follow the mixing directions and precautions in the video. I made mine from Draino drain cleaner in crystal form. Don&#8217;t try this at home. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Keep on hackin! <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7LM3PKY8Jvg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;m doing some final cleaning and polishing of a few aluminum parts. I made some sodium hydroxide to help get the job done. This solution also works well as a de-greaser that can be washed away with water. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/73-honda-cb750-custom-build-part-24-cleaning-and-polishing-aluminum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}