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Originally Posted by CarWiz
You might try Iridite or Alodine pretreatment. These are chromate conversions for aluminum but I've heard they work on magnesium too. You'll want Class 1A compounds and an alkaline clean pre-rinse.
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Sorry for this late bit of wisdom, probably not relevant to the situation now, but just come across this site today and felt that I had to comment on this.
You don't really want to use alodine. There is a treatment called magnadine specifically made for magnesium. We get ours from Aircraft Spruce and Specialty, I know its available elsewhere also. You need to be really careful with magnesium, and especially magnesium aircraft parts, due to the high susceptability of corrossion. I am an aircraft mechanic, 16+ years now, and have seen a good many magnesium parts scrapped due to incorrect processes and procedures. Mainly wheels, but other items as well. One more thing, just a word of warning, anyone dealing with aircraft parts, be careful. If something happens, and it somehow can be traced back to something you did/applied, whatever, you can be held liable.