[Mr V]

I've always wanted to ship out a bunch of stock to have it anodized before we mill it. I think it would look great if for example we did all the 1x1 tube in gold while the 1x2 was done in black and in either case the weight reduction holes would really pop in the raw aluminum silver. Yes it would require being a little more careful when clamping it in the vice for milling.

Years ago one of our then students and a couple of mentors did anodize the pieces for the competition robot before final assembly. However since they built the tanks themselves and they had a problem with them leaking the mentor got frustrated and tossed all the tanks and he has since left the team.