Aluminum cleaner/polish

[Rick & Leona]

Does anyone know of a good (and hopefully easy) cleaner for aluminum teardrops? We have some oxidation and black marks we are trying to get off our teardrop. It just looks dull and dirty.

[planovet]

Try this:

http://tinycamper.com/care/walbernize.htm

[prohandyman]

Rick
The last one I did I used a SS cleaner and pad, sold by Scotchbrite, made for SS appliances. Seemed to do a good job, then I wiped entire surface with WD40.

[Shadow Catcher]

I just polished up our aluminum bike rack using polishing compound. What you are doing is essentially using very fine abrasive to flatten out the natural/unnatural finish of the aluminum. What we used to do to polish metal samples for microscopic examination was progressively finer grades of sandpaper moving into polishing compounds ending with a 1 micron finish diamonds paste. What you're doing is needless to say much simpler and a great deal less expensive. Depending on what you use you can come up with a mirror finish, or something less than. What I used for the bike rack was polishing compound sticks that I got from Harbor Freight and a cloth polishing wheel.