Has anyone ever anodized their retro valve?

[Panzerr]

The aluminum part, of course. Has anyone here done this before?

[Aliens-8-MyDad]

wow, that sounds kewl, definately something new, why doesnt agd do it? hmmm it could really ad a personal look to your mag...

[gimp]

It might change the tolerances of the metal to much. It would look cool though. I'd just get black, and get an all black marker.

[Panzerr]

That's what I was thinking. I haven't heard of anyone doing it before. The only concern I have is the tolerences. I've heard of a coat of anodization messing up tolerences on screw-in things. Anyone know if this will affect the tolerence of where the aluminum part screws in to the rest of the valve?

[Panzerr]

Lapco doesn't, or at least didn't in the past, anodize the threads on their barrels. I think I'll try it, and just have them leave the threads as they are.

[rudy]

i was going to

but i wanted to do some engraving or milling on it first who are you gonna have anodize it?
I wanted them to seal off all the internals so it wouldnt change any tolerances.

[Panzerr]

I'm going to talk to PK and see what they think.

[BlackVCG]

The Retro Valve regulator body is hard anodized to withstand the wear from the stainless velocity adjuster. If you get it anodized, the entire surface area will have to be anodized so the inside will get coated changing the tolerances and covering the hard anodizing.

[FeelTheRT]

BTW, hard ano only comes in black and green.

[Hexis]

I would take green! That would rule.

BTW gimp, the silver part on the valve is SS. Kinda funny that you said you would take it in black, since it's already black.

[Panzerr]

Yeah, they come in a boring flat black. Glossy black would contrast the stainless valve body real nice. I polished up my valve body and am itching to get rid of the boring flat black.

[cphilip]

Originally posted by FeelTheRT
BTW, hard ano only comes in black and green.

Feel...then how come all of them are Brown?

[Potatoboy]

I was thinking that myself when I veiwed this phil...

Mayhaps it's a mixture of black and green??

[cphilip]

I dunno but if its possible I will go on record of requesting AGD change to Black for sure. Goes with everything.

[Hexis]

Not that I have it in front of me, but I remember mine being black, and not brown.

Looking at a pic of my stuff it looks slightly grey if anything, but not brown. I would love green or chrome/nickle/shiny. Trying to ge rid of black on my gun.

AGD please sell me (for a reasonable price) a ReTro Valve back. I won't mess up my original that way, but I could play with one. And if I ever have problems I'll try my original valve back before I ask for an ounce of support.