Chris Whelan wrote:

On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:03:22 +0100, john thompson wrote:

Have a fifty year old or so aluminium lamp housing that has
been sprayed black. The black paint is bubbling off in places
and we wish to restore it to a nice aluminium finish. Not
neccesarily a shiny finish, a matt one would be just fine; and
probably easier.

Using wet and dry carborundum paper is going to be quite a big
job to get it looking good, especially around the detailed
parts of it.

Is it possible to buy a small fairly inexpensive 'sand blaster'
that would do the job? Or even some kind of paint stripper,
either of which would not damage the aluminium surface?

Grateful for advice on how you might tackle this job.

Not sure how this relates to uk.rec.cars.maintenance...

Really?

Your cars have no aluminum bits that may be in need of having paint
removed? If it's not strictly car related, GTFO?