Heat anodizing 21 scales? Damage?

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olybears57

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Hey guys, Thinking about heat anodizing my CRK large Sebenza 21.... Will this process damage the lock bar, or lock face? Not sure if Ti will temper/harden, and if the lock scale is tempered or hardened on the lock face, if heat anodizing temps are high enough to anneal the ti.... Thanks guys!
 
You won't do much if any real harm but you won't do any good either. Ti doesn't harden or soften the same way steel does with heat, you are just creating an oxide layer on the surface. The colours will go from gold/bronze to purple then to blue and then light blue and depening on the Ti alloy you will get various things happening with colours at the top end. You can see the black/brown on the lock face from CRK taking the Ti lock bar up to high temperature.

I personally would not use heat as it is rather hard to get a good uniform colour over the whole piece and you probably won't be doing the lock face any favours. The often partial and nonuniform colouring from blowtorching Ti looks really bad IMO and is best avoided. If you can I would properly anodise it or have someone do that for you. :)
 
Go to Home Depot and buy Tsp which is in paint section. Next get a few 9v batteries and 2 alligator clips. Mix the tsp with distilled water in a Tupperware. Then place a piece of foil in water with a surface area larger than what your anodizing. Then series 2 batts together for bronze, 3 for blue and ect. Clip neg wire to foil and pos to your item and dip it I'm the solution. Bam poor mans anodizing, and with practice it works freaking great. Just watch a few YouTube videos to tweet the process. I did it to my 21 insingo and do it to my hinderer hardware when it gets scratched up and it comes out looking spot on to factory.
 
Just because you asked, here's what it looks like. Please note, the off colors and such was due to a failed oxy-clean treatment, and you can read about that in the thread. But mainly i'm linking you there to see what heat anodizing looks like when done on an electric stove burner. It's very uniform, and looks pretty good for a gold/bronze color. I anodized the piece AFTER the oxy thing, just to see if the bead blaster would remove it.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...g-stoewashed-Titanium?p=13545834#post13545834
 
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