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Stripping of Ivadized Aluminum

What is the best stripping solution for Ivadized aluminum from high strength steel? I have caustic, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, Enstrip S/cyanide nickel strip.

Jeanne Kitazaki
United Airlines - San Francisco, California

Ivadizing is vapor deposition of pure aluminum, glass beaded and chromated. Any aluminum etchant solution should work just fine. Blasting with walnut shell media ⇦this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] works also, if I remember correctly. James Watts
- Navarre, Florida

Caustic will selectively remove the aluminium.

John Tuohy
- Ireland

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