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thefool

07-30-2006, 07:51 PM

i've been meaning to do this for a while and today i got a chance.

About .5 mil blue "ice" fade on some scrap aluminum i had laying around. More to come next time i have some free time (2-3 weeks probably)

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/198798b8.jpg

what do you guys think.

BigEvil

07-30-2006, 08:15 PM

You did that yourself? Great freekin' work.

zackzel

07-30-2006, 08:30 PM

Looks really nice, Good job!

peewee

07-30-2006, 08:38 PM

Looks good , hows it stand up to ding & scratch testing??

MANN

07-30-2006, 09:07 PM

I have been throwing around the idea of trying to anno parts myself. That looks great. Was it hard? Do you have any pics of your setup? Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appriciated.

thefool

07-30-2006, 09:36 PM

well i have a nice power supply (30 amp 60 volt) that i managed to get for cheap. Everything else, just look around online. It should hold up to dings fairly well. caswellplating.com (i think thats the url) sells dyes and sealent. you gotta be careful with the chemicals though.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/e22e5bed.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/8c59fd0b.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/036ad386.jpg

some more pics.

it was a lot of expirementaion on the funky looking one. I'm going to try paintball stuff soon. If anyone wants to send spare spyder bodies my way they'd be appriciated :dance:

txaggie08

07-30-2006, 09:51 PM

Ive got an old brass eagle body and an maybe an old spyder body you can have(for shure the BE one). Its aluminum anyway.....

If youll cut me a deal on anno sometime in the future ill give what i can find to ya.

nate2k191

07-30-2006, 09:54 PM

is there a charge to send you an old spyder body? i have an old spyder Special Edition ano'd black with green splash. you'd have to strip it if you needed it bare tho.

minimag03

07-30-2006, 11:17 PM

I have a 2k1 Shocker body I will send if it's going to turn out as good as the first pic you posted :D

68magOwner

07-30-2006, 11:51 PM

i have a kinda scrapped up TES body you can have for keeps (would appreciate a deal on future ano, as offered above tho if at all possibe ;) )

thefool

07-31-2006, 08:57 AM

wow, i wasnt expecting this much interest :D

I don't wanna start promising anything before i get the prossess down. Right now i only have gold blue and olive drab to work with. And it'll be a couple weeks before i can do another run.

So maybe ill exahust my own supply first before i stant making promises :headbang: .

txaggie08

07-31-2006, 02:17 PM

let me put it this way. You can have this body no matter what. I would however, like to get my imp annoed blue sometime in the future. If you can get the solid-color process down right, illd want you to do it at least cheaply....

tell me when and were you want the body and ill send it out.

Troen

07-31-2006, 03:56 PM

ill send you an emag battery pack to test anno on if you care to cut me a deal later if you do good work

thefool

07-31-2006, 04:14 PM

umm leaving on a trip today for 16 days. hope to do another batch when i get back. if all goes well ill start taking some orders after that. I'll post again when i do a new batch.

topazpaintball

08-24-2006, 07:23 PM

It's up and running
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/Topazbullet/Anodizing/DSC_0007-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/Topazbullet/Anodizing/DSC_0006.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/Topazbullet/Anodizing/DSC_0005.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/Topazbullet/Anodizing/DSC_0004.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/Topazbullet/Anodizing/DSC_0002.jpg

If anyone is interested, we will be doing a limited run. Contact fool for info.

Al_Steel

08-24-2006, 07:54 PM

:wow: Ok that is by far one of the coolest looking Phantoms I have ever seen! It IS a Phantom isn't it? Where did you get sweet body kit?

CoolHand

08-24-2006, 09:53 PM

:wow: Ok that is by far one of the coolest looking Phantoms I have ever seen! It IS a Phantom isn't it? Where did you get sweet body kit?

That's a Phantom with a Duckslide on it.

It's a Desert Duck knockoff kit to make your phantom look kinda like a DD.

Very neat little deals, but kinda hard to find (though not as hard to find as a real DD).

:ninja:

topazpaintball

08-24-2006, 10:45 PM

That's a Phantom with a Duckslide on it.

It's a Desert Duck knockoff kit to make your phantom look kinda like a DD.

Very neat little deals, but kinda hard to find (though not as hard to find as a real DD).

:ninja:

Yep, it's a duckslide
http://www.desertduckdd68.com/34601.html

thefool

08-25-2006, 12:03 AM

pics of a blue green gold faded spyder body will be up tommarow. Again this is just something to display our work but if people are interested we would like to get a run or two in before september 6th with parts and money submited. If you are interested please pm me so that we can keep buisness out of this thread.

thefool

08-26-2006, 04:30 PM

Double post, yay!

Messing around with acid-washing:

Pictures, followed by links to full size pics.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/Minkus962/1.png
http://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/IMG_0127.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/Minkus962/4.png
http://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/IMG_0134.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/Minkus962/3.png
http://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/IMG_0124.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/Minkus962/2.png
http://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/IMG_0131.jpg

wjr

08-28-2006, 05:10 PM

thefool

08-28-2006, 08:05 PM

the bodies were at 7.5 amps for half an hour. But thats only cause i managed to get my hands on a nice 70's power supply for real cheap. its 30 amp 60 volt, can be tweaked for 35-40ish amps and 75 volts. a spyder body is about .5 square feet so if your doing it at home with a 12 or 6 volt battery charger i suggest 3 amps or less for 1-2 hours depending on your exact amperage and how thick you want it to be.

Theres something called the "720 rule" for determaining duration. It dictates that 720/asf * thinkness in mils=time in min

so if you were to do it at 6 amps per square foot which is the max you should be doing with a 12 volt power supply it would be 720/6*.5 or .75 becasue those are the optimal thicknesses for our application resulting in 1 to 1.5 hours.

sorry if that was too in depth.

wjr

08-28-2006, 08:25 PM

Okay, cool. I'd heard of the 720 rule before, but I wasn't entirely sure about some of the values. Thanks a ton for explaining it.

thefool

10-09-2006, 02:43 PM

More pictures. My new annodizing line will be up and running soon.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/DSCN1902.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/DSCN1913.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/DSCN1885.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/DSCN1881.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/DSCN1907.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/DSCN1914.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/DSCN1877.jpg

All my pictures are hosted here: http://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/ for now

zackzel

10-10-2006, 12:13 AM

Are you currently offering this to the public or are you going to?

thefool

10-10-2006, 05:58 AM

Please pm me if your interested in having something done. I'm building a larger tank which i hope to have functioning by the end of the week and i have quite a few dyes comming in too.

So i will formally offer it in a week or two but i could probably do some before that.

olinar

10-10-2006, 06:00 AM

what colors can you do and can you do dust yet?

thefool

10-10-2006, 06:23 PM

i can do a like dust finish. Right now i have gold, olive green and blue but i am planning on ordering quite a few within the next week or two.

Philey-O-Fish

10-10-2006, 07:57 PM

I really like your fade annos. Keep up the good work!

autococker04

10-10-2006, 10:53 PM

abut how much would you be charging, ive got a spyder body that begging for a nice splash anno like youve done above

thefool

10-10-2006, 11:00 PM

This isnt a service forum so i dont wanna get in trouble with the mods. Pm me with your ideas and we'll work out a deal.

thefool

10-19-2006, 09:57 PM

new setup is done.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/Setup/DSCN1979.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/Setup/DSCN1980.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/Setup/DSCN1981.jpg
http://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f393/the13foolz/Setup/?sc=3
Acid goes in tommarow.

anyone intersted in anno pm me.

Ill answer questions if anyone has any.