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Thanks people for all the great feedback. First I took the paint off with some aircraft paint remover (takes several applications with alot of scrubing with a fine wire brush in between coats. also covering the rims with a heavy garbage bag kept the remover from drying out to quick.) Once ALL the black paint was gone I used the old "easy off" oven cleaner trick to remove the anodizing, (2 or 3 applications to do this) letting it set 30 to 40 mins. before more scrubing (dont worry non of this "pits" the wheels.) After ALL the anodizing was off I sanded (until uniform color) with 220 grit, then 400, then 1000, then 1500 (holy crap it was alot of work) Then I used Turtle wax polishing compound with the buffer, (they were pretty glossy after this but still wasnt right.) I then switched bonnets on the polisher and went with Mothers aluminum polish (then they looked like a mirror.) Looking back I could have saved some time in several areas ie.....Doing all the stripping at once. Doing all the sanding at once. Then doing all the polishing etc. I did them one at a time and it SUCKED!
But it was worth it. They look better than they did.
Thanks again
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