AO: We are back from the dead... again! After an 18 day outage, we are finally alive and well. Who knew how complicated updating software/databases from 2008 would be. I still have alot of tweaks to make, but my main goal was getting everything patched and updated to 2026.
Vbulletin 6 has changed alot since 2008 so we will have a ton of new features to dig into.
Powder coat is where they electrostatically charge the metal, then spray it with an oppositely charged powdered pigment (so it sticks). Then they bake it in an oven till the pigment melts and forms a very hard baked on coating. the end result looks like paint, but is much tougher.
Clear ano is the same as normal ano, they just don't use any dye to color the part. It looks pretty much like raw aluminum, but with the protection of ano.
Those aren't ano's either. Those are metal plating. Ano is a process that actually dyes the surface of the aluminum and seals it with a hardened layer.
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