Heat Anodizing/Coloring Stainless Steel or Titanium
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Please do not burn your house down. Propane and butane will work on thinner metals just fine. Something more dense like this knob required something hotter.
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Kids, when playing with fire, move flammable material away from your work area. Especially your compressed bottles of highly flammable gas 🤓
I had such intense anxiety watching this for that reason. It's actually why I checked the comments🤣
using a torch, on a wooden table, with several combustables literally inches away.... yikes
Safety 3rd!
@@joshschroeder5863 🤣
I was heavily triggered by this
It is a common misconception to use the term "anodizing" for creating heat colors. "Anodizing," by definition, requires electricity. What happens in this video is "oxidizing." ;)
To be more precise you are changing the structure of the passivation layer that is already formed from the chromium and nickel.
AFAIK this is not true. The titaniumcromie works also on grade 1 pure titanium, even if with more pastel colours than grade 5 or more alloys. The colours are not a pigmentation, they are interference ones depending from the thickness of the oxide transparent layer and from the kind of crystallization induced. As far as I have read, there are just two main species of crystals.
Anodizing and heating are two different ways to produce the final oxidation, indeed. It is therefore inappropriate to call what we have seen here "anodization".
So does this ruin the "stainless" properties of the stainless steel?
Thanks for the info
Change the title please. I was looking for actual anodizing.
This is oxidizing... to anodize you would use a corrosive solution and electricity to "eat" (cause corrosion) into the material to the desired color and then to seal "lock" the molecules in place (hot/cold/both depending on the material). The largest difference in these two is that oxidizing (what you did) will "rub" away far more easily then the later.
One other suggestion (other then labeling this video correctly) is that when you are doing a video time-laps why not show a timer of actual time spent?
Get a decent sized box of fine copper shavings, heat that thoroughly to the temp required, then bury the part you want blued in it. Also connect the part to something that spins at the speed you want, will make your life so much easier if you want to manually torch the thing.
That's so awesome
Just had to comment again, I'm glad you change the title of this one.
A suggestion though would be as I stated previously if you do not seal that color in using an apoxie the color will begin to rub off on your hands and fade.
The colors from anodizing/oxidizing rub off on your hands, you say??
I seriously love the experts found in the comment section of RUclips.
Looks good. I wanted to see more purple show through. The purple was obvious to see earlier in the heat process. As he worked his way down with the heat the top of the shift knob was still getting hotter since heat rises. Gradually heating the entire shift knob would allow you to decide the outcome of color...more purple means less heat more blue would require more heat. 👌
Where's your safety glasses? Must be next to the aerosol cans....bwah bwah
Nice video thanks bro. But dang boy you were next to a ticking bomb with all that fire material right next to the knob lol.
I doubt that. It's just the angle of the camera that makes it look closer than it was. Even if the torch grazed the can it's not like the thing is just going to explode.
Definitely don't like how you have the bottles in the flame path! Disaster waiting to happen!🙄
Have you tried an oven yet??
:DDDDDD
The condensation at the start is because the chemical products of propane combustion are CO2 & H2O. The flame itself is cooling on the steel before it heats up above 100 centigrade and depositing liquid water on the part.
You might be able to do neat things with a tig welder on low heat.
Guns Cars and Digits true
too much camera motion😷
I wonder what shift knob manufacturer use to massive produce those coloring
especially the neo purplish + blue color looks very vibrant
That is a type of plating done to the parts similar to chrome plating
the perfect video i was searching for
I want to do this with my stainless steel fidget spinner. Would look so cool!
Gmon **CRINGE**
@@mrjackson1383 Lol
Nicolassusin Nicolas10 I don’t even remember commenting that
not gonna lie thats pretty ghey
The tips at the end would have been helpful in the beginning of the video
New game. Take a shot every time someone new doesn't read the 15,000 previous comments that told the OP it's oxidizing not anodizing.
Great color. Video would have been better if your camera had stability control.
I was swapping out bezel inserts on a watch I'm modding and got to thinking about how cool the bezel would look heat blued. Going to give it a go after I get my spring cleaning and painting out of the way. Thanks for the vid.
nice video sir, i tried it on my xbar i cant get even results like that, i guees i need a better source of heat, im just use a can with a torch plug in. wish to have same result as yours. got lot of patience :)
If the steal is thicker, then you might need something hotter. I was able to burn the exhaust tip just using a propane torch.
Home Depot or placed like it sell map gas tanks for like $15
the chances are highly likely that I would have burnt the entire place down trying to get the shift knob to look cool!!!!!
You should A tag team did with the propane.
Who is doing your filming??? Looks like they have an epilepsy problem. Buy them a tripod please.
You can touch it with bare hands as soon you switch off the torch. It will have a light brown to flat dark earth finish 🤣
Great video 👍
Oh my goodness I was scared when the second torch went so close to the can next to it......No protective glasses? Thanks
Nice video, do you know if i can do this on my stainless steel motorcycle exhuast? Will the color remain?
If you heat your steel to blue and then the part gets exposed to lower levels of heat (say the brown stage) will it change colors again or will it remain blue?
The change in colour is based on the black body radiation theory discovered by Max Planck. It says that when you heat metals, it goes from a low frequency to a high frequency. Red shows low frequency, blueish colour shows high frequency. It’s kind of like the VIBGYOR
I bought a blitz nur spec r stainless steel exhaust which is 304 grade stainless steel. I can’t get it to turn blue only purple but it gets blotchy. Any ideas? The metal was turning red it was that hot when being heated
Don't use an open flame next to a propane tank or a compressed can (or 4)!
Suggest 2 do the flaming inside a small brick oven u can just stack up to retain heat.
Oven/fire stove supplier should have these bricks. And, it's much safer too.
I have a motorcycle exhaust pipe that is 304 stainless steel sandblasted to give a titanium look from the factory. Although it has become a yellow gold color due to heat but also a blue purple color in some spots. I have the pipes off the bike now and i want to get that blue purple color the entire pipe. Can i just take a torch to it until i get the color i want ? Thanks in advance for a reply anyone
HighVisi0n pretty much just google blueing steel and follow instructions
Thanks for the video! This blue you get is hard to get out? I mean it's like permanent?
Anytime! You can lightly sand and polish it away.
Around 4:30 I thought you’re trying to torch blue the propane capsule with your mapp torch!
Surgical isn't really a type of steel. It's prolly just 316 stainless. Good stuff tho. Hot!!!
you should spin it slowly to make it easier.
Damn all that and yourr hoodie messed it up? Wow 😂
2:42 you just gave me a mini heart attack
Why
@@jm-bn9sy not you
Does this impact the structural integrity of the material ? Want do to this on my bike frame.
Usually adding heat without rapid cooling will effect rigidity in metal
@@Th3_0_h8 best i can do is pour a bucket of cold water right after...
Rapidly cooling metal after heating will cause the welds to break
@@tjbroome1 yes that’s true. You are interfering with the intermolecular forces. It’s kind of like you break something and again reattach it with glue
4:23 come on man…. Just begging for that bottle to explode 😂 glad you didn’t kill yourself in the making of this. Stay safe!
Do you know how much heat it would take on the steel to actually blow the bottle up?
@@TheSlipAngle it takes 5 seconds to just move it out of the way and be safe. Is that really so hard?
They call him Dangerous Dave at work I'm sure 😃
Cool surrounding area with the gas cylinders and the aerosol can👍... This guy is so concentrated in the heat coloring of the knob that his mind is completely out of the safety zone 😄
Agreed
What about the tempering of the metal, say the hardness of a knife?
I will tested on my exhaust tip (stainless steel), but the color change will fade over time as the copper begins to oxidize? What should i do to make it better ?(not rusty&permanent blue)
Looks so cool, such a cool concept. Would be a awesome DIY burnt exhaust tips
I'm thinking about doing the same thing on a bike frame.do you think is a good idea to cover the whole thing with just a little of gasoline or alcohol and set it on 🔥?.Or do you think I will mess it up I been trying to get the raw look too but with some color.i know sounds stupid but just wondering.
I think the camera could have been wobblier, that would have been cooler...
Will metal polish or any other cleaning remove this?
Yes
@@TheSlipAngle Can I just stain it again if I polish it out?
I’m sorry but the lack of an “ANODE” and “cathode” and no electricity = no ANODizing
we manufacturer stainless steel products how we can do to silver colour give me products name we can do this please give me inforamtion
If i mess up the color can i polish it off and try again, will colors be as vibrant as the first burn?
Bit wd40 helps before hand
Put the damn camera on a tripod. Camera person socks! Making us sick.
Hey Ray, thanks so much for watching! Have a wonderful day :)
Just tried this with my exhaust tip and got almost no color change even using propane to heat it then a butane torch to finish it off. Got bright orange so it should have been hot enough. Idk tell me if I did something wrong. Btw I did clean the surface off with carb cleaner then decreased first
Waiting for the spray can to EXPLODE...kids
Because it just explodes the instance a flame goes anywhere near it. In fact, we all died 6 years ago when we made this. This is just our ghosts running the channel now. Thanks for watching!
Surgical grade stainless steel doesn’t mean anything. It’s an industry term used to describe any inexpensive steel (not super steels or named high carbon steels). Usually from Pakistan.
Not even an industry term. It's a marketing term and any company that uses it should be avoided like the plague.
Do people even want to avoid the plague anymore? The last couple years makes me seriously question that.
Should have been able to use your oven man
Do you have to use fire, or can you heat the SS in an oven? Thanks.
Just have to get the temps high enough to reach the color points.
It be sick to do this on ATV exhaust tips them be looking better with any colour
That knob took a lot more heat to change colors than it should have
No since its not hollow
You have no idea how thick it is, or exactly what alloy it is so that's an absurd assumption.
Please remove anodizing from title. Annoying waste of time.
It's commonly misconstrued and searched for as heat anodizing. Hence why the title has it has Heat Anodizing/Coloring.
Awesome video dude but if you could have gotten your camera man/women to quit swaying back and forth would have been perfect either way learned a lot thanks
Could you do this with headers
I have a stainless sphere knob. I love it. It is very heavy and I like that. It was burned a yellow/bronze color at my request. After a season of driving the color has completely worn off. Is that your experience? Guess its time to redo it. Maybe this is my excuse to get a mapp gas set up.
Maybe a thick clear coat or casting it in epoxy and turning it down to a thin layer would protect it better?
hold that cam calm man! feeling im in a damn rolercoaster :@
Is it permanent?
You guys have that torch set wrong. that middle feather is too long and needs to be almost right up at the tip of the torch
Only if you want a single, very hot spot. He's using less air so the flame stays a bit colder and gentle. Makes the process way easyer
Would this method work with regular steel? I machined 4.5 diameter nuts to use for the assembly of my industrial table. I want the hardware to stand out. I planed to get them powder coated clear after the torching. Hoping the heat from powder coating won't effect the color if it works with torching it.
Yes it would.
Next time use a heating tip on the torch. Not a welding tip.
does the colour fade with time?
Yes it does.
could of left out the propane part and just told us its not hot enough!..lol..just sayin
There are no pores in metal
Hallo sir, how to remove colour for titanium torch m
Polishing compound
@@TheSlipAngle thanks
Move those gas cylinders and aerosol can closer next time
What can I do if I have overheat and want to restore?
should have got the right all thread rod and chucked it up in a drill
couldn't you just stick it in the oven?
Might not get it hot enough
Like your smile😁
What to clean the stainless with before oxidizing it? I used rubbing alcohol and i keep getting spots and corrosion
I've always used alcohol. Some metal just has contaminates in it unfortunately.
@@TheSlipAngle Dang... I appreciate the response
I have 2 ?s do u have a video to color stainless red n how to make it permanently
It is permanent
Heat rises. Would it be easier to start from the bottom and work your way up? This is actually oxidizeing the metal...
To be more specific (I'm not trolling you), "heat rises" in liquids and gases via convection. In heat-conducting solids, like metals, it is conducted in all directions.
Is that a stainless part? Or is titanium?
Stainless, but titanium will do the same
Can everybody tell me, after titanium became blue can it turn back to the original colour (shine/silver/u name it)? And how to do that?
Placing it in rust remover will return it to the original color, or continuing to heat the metal past blue it will turn back to silver
DirtyHammmer if i heat it again, is it became blue again?
I try ask is it posible to make it blue make it silver than blue again than silver again
@@aslahhoya6975
Yes.
Heat to desired color, dip in whink brand rust remover (very dilute hydrofluoric acid) to remove color. Repeat as often as you want.
Electrically anodizing titanium is much better than using heat though, and its extremely easy with basic equipment and a middle school education.
does it rust more after the treatment?
It's stainless steel. Regular steel will if you don't oil or coat it to preserve the color
Dude that's cool, I will give it a shot on my Ford focus ST winter beater.
Sweet. Let me know how you make out!
This work on carbon steel?
It will but the colors won't be as vibrant. Google color case hardening
Hey have u ever done an ano storm?
So, the propane torch worked for the Exhaust tip you tested on?
Yes it was
Fuckin sick
Hello I got a question do you thing that we can make gold color using marker pen and then using torch ?
The first it starts to change to is gold, so as long as you heat it to just that temp range, you can leave it with a gold finish.
Man this video deserves 5 billion likes and -5 billion dislikes :)
Hey thank you!
Quit shaking the camera
Keep up the work. I know it may seem like its slow but your content gets better and better! I wanna have a garage like you in 10 years! haha
Thanks man!
What degreasers are you using tp clean up the knob before burning it? I'm doing a similar project with other stainless steel items, and I get a wide variety of inconsistencies in burn patterns. Sometimes its perfect, other times its blotchy. Any suggestions?
I used isopropyl alcohol but I also noticed some inconsistencies. This was really the only time I tried this. I haven't really messed around with heat coloring anything else ever since.
Garage Quinn Motors Thanks for getting back to me. A biologist friend of mine suggested mixing ethyl alcohol with isopropyl. Use that first, then simple green, then the alcohol mix again. Rinse with hot water after all of that. We'll see.
Nice! Let me know if you have better results with that.
At 4:33 I thought you were gonna blow propane cylinder up
That aerosol can too! Safety first!
BTW what you did was heat treating.. Nice vid..
Does this require clear coat in order to for the color to stick, or is it durable enough without clear coat?
Clearing it would preserve the finish better. It will fade over time from exposure to the oils in your hands.
Thank you. Also, any clear coat you can recommend for this?
I don't have anything sorry. Paint is a whole other world that I need to get more up to speed on.
Its not anodising, its oxidising
Nice dude, make that S2k look awesome! For which one is it though?
Thanks man. It came out of the AP1, but now after all of this I put it in the AP2 and ordered another brushed stainless one for the AP1 lol. I am not sure if I will try torching the new one though.