How to strip and reanodise faded fork caps

[DucatiBastard]

Wow, just...wow

 

[okboatie1]

Many, many props to you!  This thread has been my bedtime reading for a week now...Wow!  Thanks for the post.

[Mundman]

Impressive

[caperix]

The parts turned out wonderful & a great write up as always.  I have been wanting to try out anodising myself, it is nice to see that good results can be had at DIY.  Can this be done to the fork bodies? I have heard that they would need a hard anodising, not sure if that is due to them being clamped or more exposed, but your statement about the less available colors for hard has me wondering.

[Rudemouthsky]

Hi Suzy, sorry to revive such an old thread..

was just wondering if you think one of my many inexpensive power supplies I use to power my tattoo machines would be suitable. Not lab power by any means..

[oldndumb]

...... I have heard that they would need a hard anodising, not sure if that is due to them being clamped or more exposed, but your statement about the less available colors for hard has me wondering.

There is another thread explaining the three types of anodizing but my search mojo is out of kilter today so I Googled for this basic description.

http://astro.neutral.org/hard_anodizing.shtml

[suzyj]

Hi Suzy, sorry to revive such an old thread..

was just wondering if you think one of my many inexpensive power supplies I use to power my tattoo machines would be suitable. Not lab power by any means..

Ya, should be fine, at least for smaller parts.