My pleasure! Its been a lot of trial and error but finally got the hang of it and wanted to share what Ive learned. Ill be doing one more big upgrade and Ill make another video on the setup when I get there!
Thank you for explaining the process.Been planning to do a small setup for a long time.Very hard to get some of the good quality parts like the heater and rack here.
No problem man! Yeah I have heard its difficult to get many of the anodizing supplies in other countries, battery acid specifically. The racks can be ordered online, they are available on ebay.
Thanks for the video. .....really could have used this a couple of years ago during my start up, lol. The real fun is Fading and mixing multiple colors. Keep’em coming.
Yeah man I been seeing your work in the facebook group! Awesome stuff! yeah anodizing has been a love hate thing for me, but I feel like I FINALLY have the basics down and now the goal is dial in matching colors over large quanities and playing around with color mixes for side projects
No problem! I plan to do another video in the future when I upgrade for the last time to larger tanks and better varible control. Thats the same exact reason I setup myself to keep it in house, the way my workflow works its helpful to be able to anodize to order and stock all my products in silver. I try to keep a small batch of common products preanodized but this works best for me, every system is different.
@@ClockwerkIndustries Do you have a preferred company for the racks? I make tons of small parts (about the size of the last segment of my pinky), so I need to shop for a few different varieties.
@@GregsGarage There seem to be a bunch of vendors from China who popped up, I got mine from a guy in the Anodize DIY Facebook group who would buy a bunch from overseas and then sell them to the group. There is a guy on ebay in Canada, he's in the same group, but he sells them on eBay. There are quite a few varieties. If you toss titanium anodizing racks on the eBay search a bunch should pop up. They work great and basically last forever, I have done so many rounds with my racks,the great thing is the titanium ones don't need to be stripped after each round like aluminum racks.
Hey, thanks for watching! Yeah, the racks are all titanium in this video, in my older anodizing video I made homemade DIY aluminum racks. Those would deteriorate over time and you would have to make new ones constantly because they need to be lye stripped each bath, titanium lasts nearly forever as racks. I got these from a guy in the anodizing DIY Facebook group, they are also available direct from china and on eBay from a guy in Canada. Here's a link to the FB group, it's an amazing anodizing resource! Tons of knowledge here! facebook.com/groups/235180400480451/
Would you mind sharing what you do with the used up chemicals? Is it costly to have them picked up by HAZMAT removal company? Do you store them in bigger containers after they are used up? Thanks
I am actually pretty luck here, my city has an oil and chemical drop-off, so since my setup is such a small scale I can drop off 5-gallon buckets of chemicals or oil and label it properly and the city disposes of it. I would say I only have to drop off a 5 gallon bucket of stuff once a year, most of these things last for quite a while. most of the time you are just losing evaporated water and can keep refreshing with new DI or RO water. the battery acid tank lasts a long time i still haven't switched that out since i started this build.
@@ClockwerkIndustries That is a nice perk you got there of living where you do. I'll have to look into that here locally but I doubt there is something similar out here. Thanks for responding.
@@flyingjeep911 thanks man! Yeah I brought on my buddy back in November, were finally ahead of production and have a second Tormach ordered on the way, so I'm finally able to focus almost entirely on videos and custom PC builds again, so I'll be trying to get like 1-3 videos a week depending on the video, you picked a good time to stop by lol
Your gold colour wouldn't get murky if you adjusted the pH and filter it. Its probably Sanodal Gold 4N (or same thing but different name) so pH should be kept from 4 to 5
thats great to know! thanks! yeah I havent messed with the PH much, I need to build some sort of system to filter the tanks like a pump that runs through a filter. it is gold N from caswell good call!
Very helpful video! Do you know where you are going to be buying the new 8"x24"x30" tanks I have been looking into buying them but they are so expensive. Might just buy some sheet stock and plastic weld them myself.
Most likely Ill be getting them from USPlastics, they will all basically be a bigger version of my current bath tank. I think the ones I saw were around 75$ a tank? I cant remember off hand. They arent cheap but the price seems reasonable. I would be nervous to plastic weld them only because I never did that before, but that could be a potential option! The way I see it is with the bigger tanks I can offer anodizing services and try to get them to pay for themself. Plus if production picks up more this year, it should make it worth it after so many baths the extra output should cover the costs in time. If you weld one, report back and DM on instagram or facebook with some pictures, im interested in seeing how that works!
@@ClockwerkIndustries I never heard of USPlastics till I watched your video and I was hoping they would have cheaper prices but they are still super expensive. The cheapest 8"x24"x30" tank I could find was $258 and that's for only low temp polyethylene the high temp polypropylene tanks go for $329. They do sell 4ft x 8ft x 1/4" sheet of polypropylene for $196 and that would easily make 2 tanks bringing it down to $98 per tank. Not counting the labor and extra price savings for buying in bulk. I have never welded plastic either but there are plenty of tutorial videos about it for making water tanks for RV's. I'll let you know if I ever get around to making them myself. Let me know if you ever find a tank that size for close to $75 because I cant afford $329 a tank haha.
cool ! thanks for the knowledge
My pleasure! Its been a lot of trial and error but finally got the hang of it and wanted to share what Ive learned. Ill be doing one more big upgrade and Ill make another video on the setup when I get there!
Thank you for explaining the process.Been planning to do a small setup for a long time.Very hard to get some of the good quality parts like the heater and rack here.
No problem man! Yeah I have heard its difficult to get many of the anodizing supplies in other countries, battery acid specifically. The racks can be ordered online, they are available on ebay.
What a life saver! Thanks for the video man. Do you have a link for the heating elements you use?
Thanks for the video. .....really could have used this a couple of years ago during my start up, lol.
The real fun is Fading and mixing multiple colors. Keep’em coming.
Yeah man I been seeing your work in the facebook group! Awesome stuff! yeah anodizing has been a love hate thing for me, but I feel like I FINALLY have the basics down and now the goal is dial in matching colors over large quanities and playing around with color mixes for side projects
Good to hear the details. We are trying to bring a few of our smaller parts in-house so we can control the schedule a bit better.
No problem! I plan to do another video in the future when I upgrade for the last time to larger tanks and better varible control. Thats the same exact reason I setup myself to keep it in house, the way my workflow works its helpful to be able to anodize to order and stock all my products in silver. I try to keep a small batch of common products preanodized but this works best for me, every system is different.
@@ClockwerkIndustries Do you have a preferred company for the racks? I make tons of small parts (about the size of the last segment of my pinky), so I need to shop for a few different varieties.
@@GregsGarage There seem to be a bunch of vendors from China who popped up, I got mine from a guy in the Anodize DIY Facebook group who would buy a bunch from overseas and then sell them to the group. There is a guy on ebay in Canada, he's in the same group, but he sells them on eBay. There are quite a few varieties. If you toss titanium anodizing racks on the eBay search a bunch should pop up. They work great and basically last forever, I have done so many rounds with my racks,the great thing is the titanium ones don't need to be stripped after each round like aluminum racks.
@@ClockwerkIndustries Perfect. I'll hop into the FB group and see if I can get up to speed. I'll also hop on eBay and take a look there too.
Thank you!
Hi! great video, thank you for shraring. whats the material on that rack you are using? titanium?
Hey, thanks for watching! Yeah, the racks are all titanium in this video, in my older anodizing video I made homemade DIY aluminum racks. Those would deteriorate over time and you would have to make new ones constantly because they need to be lye stripped each bath, titanium lasts nearly forever as racks. I got these from a guy in the anodizing DIY Facebook group, they are also available direct from china and on eBay from a guy in Canada.
Here's a link to the FB group, it's an amazing anodizing resource! Tons of knowledge here!
facebook.com/groups/235180400480451/
@@ClockwerkIndustries Thank you very much!
Would you mind sharing what you do with the used up chemicals? Is it costly to have them picked up by HAZMAT removal company? Do you store them in bigger containers after they are used up? Thanks
I am actually pretty luck here, my city has an oil and chemical drop-off, so since my setup is such a small scale I can drop off 5-gallon buckets of chemicals or oil and label it properly and the city disposes of it. I would say I only have to drop off a 5 gallon bucket of stuff once a year, most of these things last for quite a while. most of the time you are just losing evaporated water and can keep refreshing with new DI or RO water. the battery acid tank lasts a long time i still haven't switched that out since i started this build.
@@ClockwerkIndustries That is a nice perk you got there of living where you do. I'll have to look into that here locally but I doubt there is something similar out here. Thanks for responding.
Got here from the Grimsmo video comment section.. I’ll have a look around haha.. what are you machining?
lol welcome! I manufacture stuff for custom computers, specifically cable management right now and ill be doing more with watercooling very soon!
@@ClockwerkIndustries I looked over your site pretty cool stuff. It’s nice to find a fresh cannel to watch.
@@flyingjeep911 thanks man! Yeah I brought on my buddy back in November, were finally ahead of production and have a second Tormach ordered on the way, so I'm finally able to focus almost entirely on videos and custom PC builds again, so I'll be trying to get like 1-3 videos a week depending on the video, you picked a good time to stop by lol
Your gold colour wouldn't get murky if you adjusted the pH and filter it. Its probably Sanodal Gold 4N (or same thing but different name) so pH should be kept from 4 to 5
thats great to know! thanks! yeah I havent messed with the PH much, I need to build some sort of system to filter the tanks like a pump that runs through a filter. it is gold N from caswell good call!
Very helpful video! Do you know where you are going to be buying the new 8"x24"x30" tanks I have been looking into buying them but they are so expensive. Might just buy some sheet stock and plastic weld them myself.
Most likely Ill be getting them from USPlastics, they will all basically be a bigger version of my current bath tank. I think the ones I saw were around 75$ a tank? I cant remember off hand. They arent cheap but the price seems reasonable. I would be nervous to plastic weld them only because I never did that before, but that could be a potential option! The way I see it is with the bigger tanks I can offer anodizing services and try to get them to pay for themself. Plus if production picks up more this year, it should make it worth it after so many baths the extra output should cover the costs in time. If you weld one, report back and DM on instagram or facebook with some pictures, im interested in seeing how that works!
@@ClockwerkIndustries I never heard of USPlastics till I watched your video and I was hoping they would have cheaper prices but they are still super expensive. The cheapest 8"x24"x30" tank I could find was $258 and that's for only low temp polyethylene the high temp polypropylene tanks go for $329. They do sell 4ft x 8ft x 1/4" sheet of polypropylene for $196 and that would easily make 2 tanks bringing it down to $98 per tank. Not counting the labor and extra price savings for buying in bulk. I have never welded plastic either but there are plenty of tutorial videos about it for making water tanks for RV's. I'll let you know if I ever get around to making them myself. Let me know if you ever find a tank that size for close to $75 because I cant afford $329 a tank haha.