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anodiser_chick Anodizing **PLEASE READ**UPDATED CRANKS RETURNED**
welsh denny:
was tempted to send a polished silver fs880 to be done anno blue this week. maybe not now then....
(and i know how frustrating it can be waiting for parts when a local place took 5 weeks to powder my frame. week after week of false promises and then wrong colour - flat red than candy red-
so had em strip it and do sky blue instead as they couldnt guarantee the candy red finish- wtf?- good work when i had collected it but so much hassle i'll stay away in future and send to sbd
- 5 trips up there 50 mins each way. and plenty of blatent lies- so avoid blastcoat in newport if you were thinking of using em any welsh radsters- or make sure you don't need the parts within
a few months- they are only a small business too.)
animal:
To be honest having been on the receiving end I can see both sides. I would love to offer an anodising service . But I can't afford the time off work unpaid to do it . I am also discouraged by people not being happy with the final finish .
Gnarlyscoots:
It's a hard one for sure. I had Jay strip a NOS chainring and clear anodise it. I had it within 4 days of it getting to her from Nick. I guess it was easy being NOS and not much else to do to it.
I also think we sometimes want gold from iron. I had a couple of framesets chromed at Hockley and while there, he showed me some of the stuff people from this site had sent him to be done. Some of looked like it had just been pulled from a river after 25 years. Yet the owners were expecting flawless chrome results.
I can see Craig's issue here too. I wouldn't want to be chasing something, then get it back totally different to how I wanted it done in the first place, especially after being told it would not be a problem.
Bfellows:
I had Jay re anno my bubble font redline chain wheel and galindo cross bar - great finish, no drama and good price. Turn around was quick. Everyone has an off day.......
Munnyella:
I have had issues with anodising (not Jay) Old member on here (Ronster) made me a new school sized hutch style seatclamp, it was a beauty, polished, it looked flawless, after a while, when having a few other bits anno'd blue locally, I decided i'd chuck the clamp in too.
When I went to collect it, the guy was really apologetic, every thing was spot on, apart from the clamp, was real patchy and dull, looked bloody awful, so he stripped it in front of me, and it was beautiful shiny ally!
It was machined from a bit of billet, and as Ronnie works for an F1 team, i'm sure it was a good quality lump, but maybe the runny hot metal wasn't stirred up properly in the billet foundry.
MM
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