Painting and Scheduling

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Originally Posted by DampRobot

Does anyone have any experience or insights into teams anodizing on their own? I've been doing a bit of research, and it appears to be difficult but not prohibitively so for teams to start their own anodizing setup.

I tried it in 2007 on 228. You'll need to spend several hundred dollars buying a high power AC-DC power supply, as well as all the necessary chemicals and dyes. The primary chemical (and nastiest to work with) for the actual anodizing process is sulfuric acid.

It's not a complicated process, but we never really pursued it much after initial tests because we didn't have a high enough power AC-DC power supply, and we did not want to keep such a large volume of sulfuric acid in our build space.