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Title: anodising aluminium Post by: mike on March 14, 2003, 09:15:45 AM Rang up quite a few platers today (in SA) to get my number plate surrounds re anodised but no luck, all the ones i spoke to said that they use a different process nowdays and they will not come up as shiny. Has anyone else had this problem and if so how did you get around it, i thought about getting them chromed but not sure how they would turn out.
regards mike. Title: Re: anodising aluminium Post by: Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius on March 14, 2003, 12:22:43 PM I had an alloy timing cover chromed and it came up fine. Pity the butt-heads doing the job had to go over my polishing work and left a streak of polish on the cover during chroming!
But anyway, go the chrome! I have heard A-Class (http://www.aclassmetal.com.au/) at Lonsdale and Windsor Electroplaters are quite good. Title: Re: anodising aluminium Post by: spider on March 14, 2003, 09:14:57 PM :)Hi Mike,
I cant see how the process is different. They should be able to drop your surround into a solution that strips the old anodising off, a quick re-polish and they anodise it again. By the sounds of it they couldnt be bothered :-/. The only reason they wont come out shiny is if they dont get a high lustre from polishing the item properly. Keep Trying, there will be some one out there. Cheers Spider 8) Title: Re: anodising aluminium Post by: brads59 on March 19, 2003, 09:08:51 AM Try Bowden metal polishers...
Very expensive but very high quality. cheers BRAD.... |