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Boat Forum / Building / July 2005cleaning an anodized aluminum mast?
It's a gold colored matt finish. I think it's called anodizing but has a faded stripe pattern of wear I'd like to restore if it's possible. It's horizontal and all the way up the mast. Thanks for any info you may have. It is possible to re-anodize, but it must be completely dissassembled and all aluminum parts to be done must be sanded, repaired, brushed or polished as the case may be. Any blemishes will really show, so surface prep is important. The cost will be dependent on the size, as this process is accomplished in a vat of chemicals. Steve > It's a gold colored matt finish. I think it's called anodizing but has > a faded stripe pattern of wear I'd like to restore if it's possible. > It's horizontal and all the way up the mast. Thanks for any info you > may have. >It is possible to re-anodize, but it must be completely dissassembled and >all aluminum parts to be done must be sanded, repaired, brushed or polished [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >>It's horizontal and all the way up the mast. Thanks for any info you >>may ha ------------------------- there is an aluminum filled moisture cured urethane paint available that will almost make it look like a new galvanized mast and very durable (albeit not the gold anodized you currently have). paul oman >>It is possible to re-anodize, but it must be completely dissassembled and >>all aluminum parts to be done must be sanded, repaired, brushed or [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > paul oman What is it?  Signaturejose > It's a gold colored matt finish. I think it's called anodizing but has > a faded stripe pattern of wear I'd like to restore if it's possible. > It's horizontal and all the way up the mast. Thanks for any info you > may have. There's an interesting thread on DIY anodizing at www.catsailor.com in their open forum ... follow some of the links which also will give you a good look as well ... And they actually talk about how to do a mast (it does have to be completely immersed, but somebody came up with what I thought was a neat trick for that ), how to do color and more Interesting read if nothing else gary >>It's a gold colored matt finish. I think it's called anodizing but has >>a faded stripe pattern of wear I'd like to restore if it's possible. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > gary You some kinda shill, paid to get us to spend hours logging in and groping for one article? Please post a direct url. this sounds like a goodie. Do they use a sponge wired to an electroplater to do the mast without immersing it? We used to have a similar kit for doing gold plating on electrical terminals in military connectors. It used a deadly poisonous gold cyanide plating paste, and an electrical "Q" tip. The gold was a "B" class consumable! Could never figure out how to actually order the gold, though;-) Thanks, Terry K >>> It's a gold colored matt finish. I think it's called anodizing but has >>> a faded stripe pattern of wear I'd like to restore if it's possible. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > goodie. Do they use a sponge wired to an electroplater to do the mast > without immersing it? OK, I'm back. Try this one: http://www.catsailor.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Test&Number=48319&page=& view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=all&vc=1 Terry K > We used to have a similar kit for doing gold plating on electrical > terminals in military connectors. It used a deadly poisonous gold [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Thanks, > Terry K If you want to, Google "gold plating wand" and ignore the Harry Potter hits. Rio Grande used to sell the kits, but I couldn't navigate their web site. Check out http://www.caswellplating.com/kits/plugnplate.htm if you really want to build a goldplater. According to Caswell, for aluminum, you first "zincate," then nickel plate, and then put on the gold. Note this is not at all the same thing as anodizing. Roger derbyrm@NOSPAMearthlinkNOSPAM.net http://home.earthlink.net/~derbyrm <snip> > We used to have a similar kit for doing gold plating on electrical > terminals in military connectors. It used a deadly poisonous gold cyanide [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Thanks, > Terry K To plate an anodized mast, you would need to strip it completely first (back to bare metal that is - losing the thick oxide film.) Brian Whatcott >If you want to, Google "gold plating wand" and ignore the Harry Potter hits. >Rio Grande used to sell the kits, but I couldn't navigate their web site. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> Thanks, >> Terry K To all, my apologies ... didn't mean to leave y'all with that "go to catsailors.com" message regharding DIY anodizing ...here's, the address for the thread ... http://www.catsailor.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Test&Number=48319&page=6 &view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1 again ...apologies gary > To plate an anodized mast, you would need to strip it completely first > (back to bare metal that is - losing the thick oxide film.) > > Brian Whatcott Well, sure, so far, but the wonderful thing about future shoK! is that once in a while, a problem you thought you had was solved yesterday and you just needed to find the solution amidst the monkey trees and buffalo stampeed. For all I know, there is now a blue goo nano paste that will monogram the entire mast in my monogram, etched in real emeralds, a la: ______________ | | /\ | / \ |/ |\ | \ | \ \ / \ / \ / \/ Imagine that, all in heart shaped emeralds, sparkly green on ebony, like a Guuci handbag, at 500 bucks a gallon, spray or roller applicable, printed plastic overlay film artwork and batteries not included. It will work like galvanic corrosion does. It's coming, it's gonna be popular. Why not yesterday? Programmed marketing of technology is why not. Advertising budgets is why not, we all got to buy the black and white version, first. Distributorships need to be sold, first. Psyches need to be molded, first. I thought there was news on the horizon. I thought there was a revelation in the wind. Terry K >>If you want to, Google "gold plating wand" and ignore the Harry Potter hits. >>Rio Grande used to sell the kits, but I couldn't navigate their web site. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >>>Thanks, >>>Terry K Look again at what you wrote here. You come off fine. It is in this territory that you belong. The poet, the fantasy writer...like that. It's fresh insightful, good stuff. But maybe you don't realise this...yet? Stay away from the technical hum-drum details. That's not your forte. You sometimes come off manic almost, when you try that style. You have promise. Brian Whatcott Altus OK >> To plate an anodized mast, you would need to strip it completely first >> (back to bare metal that is - losing the thick oxide film.) [quoted text clipped - 65 lines] >>>>Thanks, >>>>Terry K > Look again at what you wrote here. > You come off fine. It is in this territory that you belong. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Brian Whatcott Altus OK Thank you, Brian. I am truely flattered. You have perqued me up unmeasurably. Pray tell, what is an "Altus, OK." Is that a town still mercifully lost in Oklahoma's hills? Here are some things for you: If the world is now smaller, too small perhaps, is getting too dense too, is our information lost in raw cold data's sleets with gravity's skills to slow our sight and buzz our ears and dull are tastes? I was a tech, so tech writing be, came drolls. Policy and practice mundane to some but needed by others wanted Murphy's ex-collusion. Now he is welcome, if falling down lets people rise again. If Ever wrote "One was all", could techs enforce ill logic? Seems sometimes words fail less mispeld. Do doubt, for miss' spells park dual views, and drewled appetites far moored. The words for rock and roll are rote bivalent purpose, to kook together thought as stew, to sink as many hungers can be holed. No water, with few loaves nor fishes, could urge much use of salt . Can we muzzel oxen who tread for US a gain? Do we not lend, but to friends? Can our bakers be forgiven for eating, when they knead? Great gain by usery is crime, big time. Don't dine on wrung out bloody whines, then let them not "Eat cake!" Nor paie pay outré. The spinners and the weavers together make strong cloth, and drummers' sticks knit, not plucked strings, forced melodies, and ropes' needs control the sail. The fisherman pulls the strings and nets, collects, the cast. Let mercies not all fail. The garment is invisible 'til warmed by living flesh. The soul here rests a foot, not seen, but herd's loud shoes on horses. Let me be smoke in God's knows, if He'd have me in His garden, and share a fire, even a cup, dregs cool my flames and thirst. Let me be lowest grease, if new ships slide down ways to fish, and let me be not first, but in your service, somehow Lord. -Terry K, who wanted to play live 8, but wasn't axed "B sharp." Number 9? -SofDevCo- Brains for rent. Try phoner25.zip Copyright reserved. >>>To plate an anodized mast, you would need to strip it completely first >>>(back to bare metal that is - losing the thick oxide film.) [quoted text clipped - 65 lines] >>>>>Thanks, >>>>>Terry K I am often asked. Altus is a small town of 20 thousand. Aircrew learn their cargo/refuel tasks here - the main activity. South West Oklahoma is reflecting the national trend - country folk slowly slowly draining into big towns. Houses are cheap. People smile and say hello. Even the pretty girls. An old man can be happy in the company. Your imagination runs strong below - as always, threading the pearls into a string is the name of the game Brian >> Look again at what you wrote here. >> You come off fine. It is in this territory that you belong. [quoted text clipped - 139 lines] >>>>>>Thanks, >>>>>>Terry K |
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