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Anodizing book needed

SUGGESTED ANODIZING & CHROMATING BOOKS
for Shops, Specifiers & Engineers (affil links)

"Aluminum How-To" -- Chromating, Anodizing, Hardcoating by Robert Probert (2005)
avail from finishing.com

"The Metallurgy of Anodizing Aluminum" by Jude Mary Runge (2018)
avail from eBay, AbeBooks, or Amazon

"The Surface Treatment & Finishing of Aluminium and Its Alloys" by Wernick, Pinner & Sheasby (1959 - 2001)
avail from eBay, AbeBooks, or Amazon

"Surface Treatment and Finishing of Aluminum" by Robert King (1988)
avail from eBay, AbeBooks, or Amazon

"Anodic Oxidation of Aluminum and Its Alloys" by V. F. Henley (1982)
avail from eBay, AbeBooks, or Amazon

"The Technology of Anodizing Aluminum" by Brace (1979)
avail from AbeBooks or Amazon

"Aluminum Finishes Process Manual" by Reynolds Aluminum (1973)
avail from eBay, AbeBooks or Amazon

"The Anodic Oxidation of Aluminum" by A. Jenny (1940)
avail from AbeBooks or Amazon

"Anodizing and Coloring of Aluminum Alloys" by S. Kawai (2002, VERY RARELY avail)
from eBay, AbeBooks, or Amazon

Q. I am interested in getting hold of a good quality, and up to date, book on anodizing. The book must cover all three major processes - sulfuric, chromic and hard. I already have a UK produced book called The Technology of Anodizing Aluminum [on AbeBooks, on Amazon, on eBay" (affil links)] (January 1979) by Arthur Brace and P.G. Sheasby and I was wondering if a later book on this subject was now available. Any recommendations (and sources if possible) would be appreciated.

David Grimes
plating company - Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom
1999

A. I have the book you mention and wish that I had not spent the money on it.

I very much appreciate my two volume The Surface Treatment and Finishing of Aluminum and its Alloys by Wernik, Pinner, and Sheasby. It is not cheap.

James Watts
- Navarre, Florida

Aluminum How-To
"Chromating - Anodizing - Hardcoating"
by Robert Probert

You'll love this book. Finishing.com has sold 880 copies over the years without ever a single return request :-)

A. Hi David.
Finishing.com resells Robert Probert's Aluminum How-To: it's $89 plus shipping, we've sold hundreds of copies and no one has ever asked to return it for credit.
Luck & Regards,

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Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey

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