First Anodizing Run

[OutlawPaintball]

Here is my first anodized part everything worked great, just learned not to put a part in blue for 15min comes out a dark dark purple-blue.

[kco1196]

Nice benchwork! What was the temperature of your dye? I had the same problem with blue4a @80'.

[destroyer125]

Color looks good, your finish looks alittle under par and underbuffed. Loving how the buckets are set up

[OutlawPaintball]

I was not really going for finish just getting it to work...... The workbenches are working out very nicely ever bucket has its own power supply so when I'm do i can just turn it off.

I have a 56 gallon tank coming soon for anodizing, the bucket is a little small to do more than one or two parts. I also have a 1/4hp cooler coming and a small 1000 gph magnetic pump. The Homedepot buckets work nice for small dye tanks with 4 gallons of dye.

kco1196........ I had the dye at 135-140F.

[OutlawPaintball]

Anyone using a vibratory tumbler for paintball?

[destroyer125]

Some places do. Other places refuse to use them as they can easily screw up internal tolerances.

What kind of tank did you order?

[OutlawPaintball]

The tank i got was http://www.plastic-mart.com/class.php?item=1399 its 56 gallons and i had them put 3 1/2 fittings in the side for me.I should have it this coming up Friday so i will take some pictures for you.

[destroyer125]

The tank I was looking at. 150 Gallon tank...$1200 bucks

Im looking into building an entire custom tank using polythylene sheet and a plastic welder.

[OutlawPaintball]

http://www.plastic-mart.com/class.php?item=2090
There is 150 gallon for under 300 shipping i bet is 100 more or so.....

May i ask how many guns you are doing a week? or how many parts if you do more than paintball?

[sswee]

For those looking at the bigger tanks just a point to ponder. The etch, desmut, rinse and dye tanks usually don't have to be as big but they will need to be larger than a two or four gal. tank in the smaller setups. You'll need to take into consideration the part configuration and the part suspended configuration also. I've found that it's not hard to hang a part to go into the ano tank but to get through the other steps takes some figuring and planning. And Murphy will still bite you in the butt.
SS