Tutorial - How to stealth / remove branding / logos from alloy stem bars seatpost

On polished aluminium I use 00-grade steel wool. It's extremely fine and will take of even hard to shift logos. I've also used it on black ano parts but if you're not experienced with it you'll rub though the ano. It'll go to places acetone won't shift.

I've had even engraved stuff polished out of un anodized kit. Just requires elbow grease and small learning curve. You can buy 00 in most hardware stores. Will also shine up just about any bit of vintage kit like new.

Just tried soaking a uno 7 stem in acetone , the decals literally fell off in about 10 mins, completely blank and the black colour is untouched . Nice

Anyone knows how this logos are printed?
I need to polish a handlebar for a restoration and the logo will disappear... How i could "repaint" it?

Useful thread bump + additional info:
If you soak cotton wool with acetone and wrap over the logo (as per original how to) and then wrap with cling film, you get less evaporation and it's more effective.

Holy thread dredge, Batman!
My curious mind was wondering if isopropyl alcohol is any good for this? I'm pretty sure I've got some in my shed somewhere...

if isopropyl alcohol is any good for this?

No, but good for cleaning leftover decal gunk

Thought as much. Thanks anyway!

Just doing this on a stem so thought i'd give this a bump! Will update with the outcome

Edit: worked a treat’

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Bumping this as I need want to remove the logos from a Miche Primato left hand crank arm.

I've stupidly fucked the left hand arm from my Campy Pistas and using one of the many Primato lh arms that I have at my disposal seems like the best option for replacing it and I think if I can get the branding off it'll be a close enough match to not look horribly out of place.

Acetone won't remove the silver anodising underneath the (presumably) printed logos will it?

Chances are the logos are printed on top of the lacquer so you might be able to scrape them off with some sort of plastic scraper like a bank card.

Acetone will likely work however if you rub too hard, it might remove the layer of lacquer as well, leaving the raw alloy below open to the elements & oxydation

Ah cool, I'll give that a shot then.

I have a few lh arms at home but there's tons more at work from all the cranksets we changed out for being cracked (only affects the driveside crank arm luckily) and I think some of them may already have the logos a bit worn actually.

Couldn’t shift them with anything plastic so tried the edge of a small steel rule which left some scratches in the finish so then tried another with the edge of a piece of brass and that seems to have done a pretty good job.

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