| biff584 |
I have an aluminum chassis (BUD #1422) - 17" x 10" x 5". I would like to coat it in alodine to get a nice gold look and prevent fingerprints from forming. How much alodine in the liquid form will this require? I found a place online that sells 1qt for $13 - will this be enough? Thanks.
Brian. |
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| Peter Daniel |
| I have some experience with alodine. How much a quart is in liters? And what is the source? I'm looking myself for alodine. |
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| Peter Daniel |
Those are pretty good prices. I wonder how they ship it. The best way would be dip it copeletely in the solution. Usually few minutes is enough. If you don't want to buy that much of alodine, you can do it side after side of your chassis. All you need is a flat bottom container and 1-2" of fluid. I had as little as 3/8" of fluid and still got good results (but my panels were smaller). It is important to clean it well before alodine. I used scotch brush, but some sort of deoxidizing spray would be recommended.
I started two other threads about alodine and you can find them by doing search. |
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| biff584 |
Thanks alot for the help.
-Brian |
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| BrianGT |
Is clear alodine any good?
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Brian |
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| Peter Daniel |
| What do you mean by clear alodine. It's always yellowish. |
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| BrianGT |
on the webpage that was posted, they list:
Alodine GAL - $34.00
Alodine QT - $13.00
Alodine Clear GAL - $34.00
Alodine Clear QT - $13.00
I was wondering if anyone had used Clear Alodine before.
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| Peter Daniel |
| Wherever I worked on aircrafts, we always used alodine which was yellow in color. I don't know anything about clear one. |
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| BrianGT |
it looks like they ship to canada on their order form, but no mention of shipping prices.
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| Peter Daniel |
Usually with shipping stuff like this (chemicals) they use special sort of packaging and career, which increases price substantially. That's why some companies ship it in a powder form instead of liquid. The ones I found thou had a minimum order amount which was quite big.
Remember also, that alodining doesn't protect against scratching, like hard anodizing does. But it's pretty good for fingerprints and corosion protection . |
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