home anodizing

[slobin3d]

a few years back, 2002 or 03 I read an article in RCD or RCCA on how to anodize at home using a plastic tub and some rit dye. anyone remember it?

Maybe Jason or Matt could inform me on it?

Thanks"thumbsup"

 

[TEDROCKZ]

I remember one from that era that was in an article where you used a couple of 9 volt batteries and some sort of bathroom type cleaner. Something like Tilex or something like that.

 

[PEDEcrawlerguy]

http://www.focuser.com/atm/anodize/anodize.html


I had this page bookmarked... figured it would come in handy... Hope it helps you...

 

[wingnutcrawler]

the rit dye is for dying nylon parts and the 9 volt and bathroom cleaner only works for titanium. the only colors you can do on the ti parts is gold or blue.

 

[slobin3d]

http://www.focuser.com/atm/anodize/anodize.html


I had this page bookmarked... figured it would come in handy... Hope it helps you...

I've seen that page before, it gives you the basics using the stuff he sells, the article I read tells you how to do it with basic house hold stuff.

 

[DwaneO]

the rit dye is for dying nylon parts and the 9 volt and bathroom cleaner only works for titanium. the only colors you can do on the ti parts is gold or blue.

BS , ( has nothing to do with anodizing aluminum ) You use TriSodiumPhosphate in water to anodise Titanium , and I built a machine to do it out of a rheaostat , light bulb , and a volt meter, with an anode and a cathode in your tank. You can get about 8 colors on titanium , from a light yellow to green to a nice blue.

BUT then again who could afford to build crawler parts out of Ti.