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Adventures in Anodising

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Avro:
...and in the interests of trying progress and improve my work I am adding aeration to the anodising tank. I did not think this was necessary with the small parts so I never bothered. This time I am going in equipped! Fish tank pump, check valve (thinking that siphoning battery acid into the pump would not end well), air line, connectors and a modular aeration system  fistblump

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How I hope it will look, and stay, in the tank..

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Cooking with gas now. In a similar vein I have a fish tank heater, I bought this right at the beginning. but as the tank was pretty much at room temperature anyway I never used it. Maybe I will try but if anything I need cooling not heating, joke in there somewhere...

Ady:
Great skills mate..
Love the random decals everywhere  fistblump

Avro:
My new set-up is working great, better than I had ever hoped for.
Recently a wanted ad. popped up that prompted me to have a go with a seat post clamp, not only that but in gold (a colour I have been itching to do from the start). I stripped a black Suntour clamp I have had for a while now, black is easy to redo so no biggy, and set about anodising it.

Here is is stripped, prepped and on a jig:

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In the anodising bath:

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Out of the dye and sealing baths:

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Finished product:

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Turned out really nice, better than I had hoped! Lovely.

CustardLips:
Nice work Peter... looks the business that mate.  :daumenhoch:

Avro:
I have been very busy in the anodising spare bedroom, soon to be small corner of a workshop maybe, for a while now. One of the projects is a set of Shimano DX cranks, one of two sets I have both of which need work. This set came via the Museum at at a reasonable price (hard to say what is reasonable but very much the lower end of any sales data, in fact considerably lower if one talks to the seller; a hit or miss affair but worth a try)...

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