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May 4th, 2010, 20:16
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Anodizing?
I have this idea of sandblasting and then anodizing the controls of an M4 (fire selector, trigger, pins) to a colour ie blue or gold.
I think it would look pretty damn sick. Like a professional level R/C car except on your gun. Found this place right in markham http://www.dependableanodizing.ca/ Going to find out more about cost and whether theyd even do such a small order. opinions? |
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May 4th, 2010, 20:34
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I don't think steel parts anodizes, you need to do some kind of coating or plating.
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May 4th, 2010, 20:36
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oh...shit i didnt think of that....
good point.... |
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May 4th, 2010, 20:59
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This guy does a lot of small orders for the local mazdaspeed3 performance community (torontomazda3.ca)... http://www.quyscoating.com/
Really good guy. I'm sure he'd take care of you. PM me for more info. |
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May 4th, 2010, 21:02
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Can't anodize steel, but there's alternative platings. IIRC "zinc bronze" passive chromate plating should give a nice ruddy gold hue on bead-blasted steel.
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May 4th, 2010, 21:29
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Red Wine & Adderall
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Just make sure its the correct kind of metal, there was recently a user on ASC who had his m4 receiver destroyed in some form of incident.
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May 4th, 2010, 21:32
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Yeah, the equivalent anodizing for steel would be rust :P. Anodizing is like dying the oxide layer of Aluminum, and the oxide of steel is... well yeah :P
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May 4th, 2010, 21:33
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yea controls of gun I was thinking of doing it to are steel apparently...(WE M4)
Im going for the aluminum anodized look....  powdercoat isnt exactly what im going for and I'd probably just prime and rattlecan it in that case... thanks for the info |
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May 4th, 2010, 21:36
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a.k.a. Palucol
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May 5th, 2010, 01:04
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I believe that user was ujiro. Be very careful.
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May 5th, 2010, 01:12
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May 5th, 2010, 14:55
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No he didn't actually. I'm surprised about that. I followed the thread for a while, but no pics ever showed up.
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May 5th, 2010, 19:58
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a.k.a. Palucol
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cuz there was nothing left to take pictures off... XD
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May 5th, 2010, 20:24
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if you try to anodize anything that is not aluminum it will most likely melt, i can confirm and by reading this thread, any steel stainless or mild which ever kind/quality, will melt and dissolve in the bath that is used to anodize/plate the metal, so really either do a metal plate not anodize, or just find a way to paint it, its not that it won't look cool, its just you lose your pieces and money
(i know this from working in a factory that does anodization, we put steel screws in to test it, there was nothing left not even in the bottom of the bath) |
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May 5th, 2010, 22:00
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well I guess my only option now is to get aluminum after market parts or cnc cut my own ....T_T
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