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Aluminum Anodizing at Home

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I found some place on the net on how to anodize at home....Could some one fill me in one some info? When I tried adding the color, it seemed that it only stuck to the area where I had it clamped to in the electrolyte. Any other information about this proccess would be greatly appreciated as well.

Bob

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Bob,

It sounds like your part is not being anodized. There is not enough information to even start guessing what the cause. Join me in the chat room on monday night and we can trouble shoot your problem.

Jim.

James Watts
- Navarre, Florida

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i too tried to anodize some aluminium pieces at home and could not get the color to stick at all. I used a 6-12 volt battery charger [linked by editor to product info at Amazon] that put 15amps continously. I charged the pieces for about 15 minutes (the directions said 10-15 minutes), rinsed the pieces in cold water, immersed them into a warm dye solution (which color was to absorb into the parts, to a color slightly darker than what I needed), then the parts were to be put into boiling water to seal the color. I made it up to the color part, which ended up not working. do you have any suggestions? the author of the direction for home anodizing was jim bowes.

aaron m. rich

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I am also trying to anodize from home and have a little bit of information but would like some more please can you tell me what power supply and what to use to get the colours?

Simon Quach
- London, UK

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You can find an extensive discussion at: http://w3.uwyo.edu/~metal/anodizing.html

Cor Grooff
- The Netherlands