Stripping YZ250 clutch cover to bare magnesium

deadwoodmoto
Gday from Australia!

My YZ250 clutch cover looks cruddy. I’d like to strip it back to bare magnesium. It looks anodised to me instead of painted, but I am unsure. I’ve used sodium hydroxide to remove anodising from aluminium parts, but haven’t tried it on the magnesium clutch cover yet. Might try paint stripper first.

Has anyone here successfully cleaned up their mag clutch cover?

Apologies for the Aussie butchering of both ‘anodising’ and ‘aluminium’.
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kb228
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kb228 10/7/2019 2:38am
10/7/2019 2:38am
Scotch brite wheel on a bench grinder
deadwoodmoto 10/9/2019 7:34pm
10/9/2019 7:34pm
kb228 wrote:
Scotch brite wheel on a bench grinder
I was hoping to not have to abrade the cover if possible. I know how good aluminium comes up with sodium hydroxide, was hoping to do the same!

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