[ken_the_stp]

After studding for quite some time I did my first ano today.

I have 2 problems:
The Yellow 4a dose not look yellow.
I can rub a little dye onto a paper towel and it is sticky kinda, takes finger prints and i can scratch it with me finger nails

I Think the problem was in the sealing as far as the stickiness ect.. goes.

but the color i am not so sure about. the dye that took to the AL looks the same color as the dye I mixed up an orange color. Could caswell have messed up my dye or did i mess up?

here is everything i did you ppl can tell me what you think:

first i sanded off the urethane and finish off some al flashing that i got from lows.

(I used normal tap water for rinse)
i etched the cathode in lye.
desmuted the cathode with caswells desmut
rinsed the cathode
Put it in a 3 gal bucket with diluted battery acid(64 flOZ with one gallon wall mart distilled water)

put the test pice in the lye for a good long time came out spotty black.
rinsed the test pice
put the test pice in desmut for about 15 mins desmut was about 80F
came out nice a shinny
rinsed the test pice
put test pice in bath.

test pice has about 4sur inches surface area.
set my bench supply to 20 volts and 0.22 amps CC
anoed for 45 mins
the voltage read on the supply started at 5.4 volts and went down to 5.1 when I removed test pice from bath
rinsed the test pice
placed in dye for 30 mins.
dye was aprox 81F
placed in near boiling water
water started a mild boil timed 30 mins from that point
turned heat down a bit.
came back to it 20 mins later and water was steaming a bubbling a little but not boiling
turned heat back up
came to a mild boil