Letter 157 Anodizing setup for student lab ---- I intend to set up a laboratory scale anodising tank for use in student laboratory classes (+/- 50 liters capacity). Is anyone aware of an article that describes such a set-up as opposed to a production one? Nigel L - Senior Research Engineer Western Australia ---- There is a book that has been published entitled Artists Anodizing Aluminum: the Sulfuric Acid Process [link is to info about book on Amazon]. This book is geared toward a setup of a small anodizing line and was designed for artists anodizing jewelry. This is a well done book and I think it will be exactly what you are seeking. Author: David LaPlance Press LaPlance Joe Hillock anodizing shop - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania + You may be commenting on a different tread, but Nigel asked for an article describing a 50-liter student laboratory setup, not a fruit jar setup, and Mr. Hillock (a production anodizer) gave the name and particulars for an inexpensive book available at large libraries that was exactly what he was looking for. You are a trained organic chemist, but the internet is a giant one-room schoolhouse with hobbyists and 3rd-grade schoolchildren reading the very same pages you are reading, so we do remind people that plating & anodizing differs from other hobbies because the government singled it out as the first EPA categorically regulated industry. We don't want plating solutions treated like plutonium, and rail against it within our political power and purse. But we know people serving time in the penitentiary for careless disposal of waste products because the EPA & Justice Department are so focused on electroplating. Other platers are condemned to work the rest of their lives at a job they despise because retroactive laws mean closing the business would trigger multi-million dollar cleanup costs and the loss of everything they own. Some found themselves in such a position after they started plating motorcycle parts in their garage in bygone days and were sucked in by degrees over the years. We don't want people to find themselves with plating waste in their garage that they can't dispose of without choosing between penitentiary time or the loss of their home. We appreciate every suggestion and criticism. But we also feel it is valid to suggest that someone have at least one old book on metal finishing on hand before fooling around in the nation's very first EPA categorically regulated business. Ted Mooney, P.E.  finishing.com Brick, New Jersey

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