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Aussie Street Bikes > Two Wheeled Physics > Modifications
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How To: DIY Anodising
Why pay good money for anodised parts when you can DIY for a fraction of the cost.
This is what you need and how its done:
Components:
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Distilled Water
A couple of plastic tubs
Fabric dye in your choice of colour
Battery Acid
12V / 10amp battery charger
Crystal Drain Cleaner 100% Lye (Lye is a corrosive alkaline substance, commonly
sodium hydroxide (NaOH, also known as 'caustic soda') )
Aluminum Wire -- I used aluminum electric fence wire
Aluminum sheet -- not foil
Rubber Gloves -- Ask your wife
Baking soda -- Again, Ask your wife
1) Connect the aluminum wire to the part. The part will not anodize where the wire is
touching, so be careful about where you decide to attach it.
2) Take one tub and fill it with distilled water and some of the drain cleaner. Place the
part in the mixture roughly 30 minutes. This will remove any previous anodization and
clean the part. Rinse the part when clean.
3) Take another tub and fill it 1 to 1 with distilled water and the battery acid.
(CAUTION: ALWAYS ADD THE ACID TO THE WATER, IF YOU ADD WATER TO
ACID YOU COULD GET HURT!!!) (WEAR SAFETY GLASSES, LONG SLEEVED
SHIRT AND YOUR RUBBER GLOVES JUST IN CASE, AND REMEMBER ACID ISNT
KIND TO THE SKIN)
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Place the aluminum plate on one side of the tub and hook it up to the negative side of
the battery charger.
Suspend the part in the solution and attach the positive end of the charger to the
aluminum wire. I left it for roughly half an hour. Rinse the part.
Anodizing tub setup:
4) Make a strong mixture of the fabric dye in a pot, and heat to "warm". Put the part
in the dye and leave until the part is a few shades darker than your goal.
5) When you are satisfied with the color, move the part to a pot of boiling water. This
seals in the color, and lightens up the color of the part a few shades.
Finished Product:
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Happy Anodising or Anodizing how ever you like to spell it.

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04-03-2010, 04:09 AM
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dude! thats frikken awesome? do you mind if i copy this post to another forum
please? jewellery related one?
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Originally Posted by Mid_Life_Crisis

dude! thats frikken awesome?
REP???
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do you mind if i copy this post to another forum please? jewellery related
one?
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SOLD!!!
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Done!
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Full credits to you and link to this forum
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by the way.. semi unrelated.. how do you get your wife to let you play with her
oven? I remelt my own wax in mine and my wife gets SICK at me dude.....
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by the way.. semi unrelated.. how do you get your wife to let you play with
her oven? I remelt my own wax in mine and my wife gets SICK at me
dude.....
I just remind her who paid for the house.
rofl
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lol.. ya ok let me know how that particular course of action plays out in the
bedroom area dude... when you need "some" you gonna be reminded who owns
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04-03-2010, 11:03 AM
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He will remind her of who pays for "it"

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Be careful with Caustic soda (drain cleaner). Make sure you read an MSDS sheet
before using the product in case you splash yourself.
Also don't breath in any fumes, I'd say a well ventilated area would be a good idea
if trying this out.
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Blue...that is seriously cool man!
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I can't wait for you next instalment, maybe "Do it yourself Tattoos"? "Do it yourself
lipsuction"? or "Do it yourself nuclear reactor building"?
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04-03-2010, 02:48 PM
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after his last comment re his wife, it will be DIY SEX!

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Originally Posted by Fightclub

Blue...that is seriously cool man!
I can't wait for you next instalment, maybe "Do it yourself Tattoos"? "Do it
yourself lipsuction"? or "Do it yourself nuclear reactor building"?
DIY Prince Albert piercing ???? THAT I would PAY to see...
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04-03-2010, 02:59 PM
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This is a seriously awesome thread......I've been looking out for a couple of

anodised bolts to replace the plain alloy ones I already have, now I'm gonna try it
this way!
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DIY Prince Albert piercing ???? THAT I would PAY to see...
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Sorry mate. Been there, done that. The people who watched had reactions similar
to watching 2 girls 1 cup.
On a side note though, I can now DIY anodised jewellery!
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