I know nothing, but am curious about doing some very small-scale anodizing of partz. Some cursory interwebs research suggests that it’s pretty straightforward.
Anyone have any real-life experience?
Open ano’ discussion.
I did some cursitory research a while back and the cash outlay for the equipment was way more than the minimums a local shop charges… (which covers a lot of small bike stuff when they are used to larger auto pieces.)
/nohelp.
[quote=“asterisk”]I did some cursitory research a while back and the cash outlay for the equipment was way more than the minimums a local shop charges… (which covers a lot of small bike stuff when they are used to larger auto pieces.)
/nohelp.[/quote]
nah, that’s good info.
thing is, i’m pretty sure i can do it on the cheap. tech grade Sulfuric is cheap, and I have a power source, so that’s the gear pretty much covered.
Caswell plating. I have 40A power supply. Let’s setup an ano line, I’m thinking 2.5 or possibly 5 gallons (think 6-8 buckets, one for each part of the process).
Uh oh.
The Bay Area is soon to be flooded with amateurishly anodized tarck bits.
My friend has a couple chainrings that his ex-racer dad anodized back in the 70’s, one of them looks good but the rest have irregular coloration and just look like shit. So practice on some shitty parts first. Sorry, that isn’t very helpful.
you should do splatter anodizing
[quote=“Rusty Piton”]Uh oh.
The Bay Area is soon to be flooded with amateurishly anodized tarck bits.[/quote]
The splatter anodizing is the tarckiest shit ever!
[quote=“Rusty Piton”]Uh oh.
The Bay Area is soon to be flooded with amateurishly anodized tarck bits.[/quote]
i see nothing wrong with this.
[quote=“pirate”]My friend has a couple chainrings that his ex-racer dad anodized back in the 70’s, one of them looks good but the rest have irregular coloration and just look like shit. So practice on some shitty parts first. Sorry, that isn’t very helpful.
you should do splatter anodizing
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wtf is this? ano’d pipe fittings?
looks like it. I just GIS’d ‘splatter anodizing’
i anodized mah jeans
[quote=“Cap-Cap”][quote=“pirate”]My friend has a couple chainrings that his ex-racer dad anodized back in the 70’s, one of them looks good but the rest have irregular coloration and just look like shit. So practice on some shitty parts first. Sorry, that isn’t very helpful.
you should do splatter anodizing
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wtf is this? ano’d pipe fittings?[/quote]
Looks like air fittings for paintball markers. They ano the fuck out of everything.
[quote=“Rusty Piton”]Uh oh.
The Bay Area is soon to be flooded with amateurishly anodized tarck bits.[/quote]
Doubtful. Neither kowloon nor I really have the time to sell lame anodized parts to hipster kids in the mission. He’s got shit to do like band practice and stuff and I’ll probably just obsess over it until I perfect the process, anodize one or two things and then move on to something else. A decade from now I’ll talk shit about it like I’m an expert.
Really, I’d like to my hand at hard-anodizing stuff. The common wisdom is that it can’t be done on a DIY basis. The power density required is much higher and the electrolyte has to be actively cooled.
[quote=“FACE”][quote=“Rusty Piton”]Uh oh.
The Bay Area is soon to be flooded with amateurishly anodized tarck bits.[/quote]
i see nothing wrong with this.[/quote]
I don’t mean to imply that I do!
Splash ano: yes please! Reminds me of the old paintball days when the OG dudes knew splashed guns were the shit. I had one like this, except it was green with purple and silver splash:
I would love to get my wheels splash ano’ed
How does the spash anno work? I thought the part was dipped in the dye and it adhered to the surface all at one time.
i’ll never understand why people like the way splash ano looks.
Not exacly. From my understanding the aluminum parts are dipped in some acidic compound and an electrical current is run through it, which causes the metal to change color. It’s a chemical process, and it also makes the surface of the aluminum a bit harder. I can’t remember if the difference in color is a function of the voltage of the current or the type of compound used, so I can’t comment on the exact process other than that something is splashed on the aluminum and this in one way or another results in a different color. I’m sure google could offer better information.
What, got something against the 90s?
