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benupton
27th August 2012, 08:49 PM
Hi,
Considering doing some experimenting in Anodizing Aluminium, a question is do you have to use a Anodizing dye or can you use a commercial clothing dye?

Thanks Ben

Master Splinter
27th August 2012, 09:22 PM
You can use fabric dyes such as RIT but the colours may or may not be quite what you expect...you can have a bit of a colour shift in some cases so it's worthwhile testing if you have your heart set on a particular tint.

Black needs to be mixed up at double strength for best results.

BobL
27th August 2012, 09:25 PM
Hi,
Considering doing some experimenting in Anodizing Aluminium, a question is do you have to use a Anodizing dye or can you use a commercial clothing dye?

Thanks Ben

Why not try it out and let us know how it goes?

Ueee
27th August 2012, 10:20 PM
Yes please do tell, i did some in school many years ago, and vaguely remember the process, but hey it was school, i wasn't really paying attention.....:D

bollie7
28th August 2012, 11:18 AM
Ben
Heres a couple of links that might be of interest to you.

Anodizing Aluminum (http://www.mini-lathe.com/Anodizing/anodizing_aluminum.htm)

Anodizing Aluminum (http://www.focuser.com/atm/anodize/anodize.html)

bollie7

Retromilling
28th August 2012, 04:02 PM
You can use "Dylon " clothing die.