Anodizing at home

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:58 pm

Don't know if anyone's seen this, but pretty good article on anodizing aluminium at home.

http://www.warpig.com/paintball/technical/anodize.shtml

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:52 am

OK, I tried this last night and it didn't work. The piece of aluminium anodized nicely, but it wouldn't take the dye - just washed off. When I diluted the acid in the water (and BTW, always add the acid to the water, not the water to the acid) it got very hot and I didn't let it cool down before I started anodizing. I am going to try it again tonight with cool acid and see what happens.

T.

Homebuilt7 · Post by **Homebuilt7** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 3:17 pm

Here is a good explaination of andonizing and how to do it.
http://www.caswellplating.com/kits/lcd_ano.pdf