Anodizing Container Material for Dye & Sealing Bath

goldenfab · Sep 7, 2017

I am not talking about the container for the actual anodizing, rather for the dye bath and nickel acetate sealing. What container materials are acceptable? I have been using glass but I would like to switch to stainless steel so I don't have to worry about breaking glass or melting plastic.

WI50shooter · Sep 7, 2017

I use walmarts cheapest stainless steel kettle with a lid for dying, I use the propane burner outside to heat it up. I store the dye in some 3 gallon buckets from home depot with snap on lids that have o-rings in them. I don't use sealer, I just boil in DI water to seal my parts. For sealing I use another cheap stainless kettle.

goldenfab · Oct 17, 2017

WI50shooter said:
I use walmarts cheapest stainless steel kettle with a lid for dying, I use the propane burner outside to heat it up. I store the dye in some 3 gallon buckets from home depot with snap on lids that have o-rings in them. I don't use sealer, I just boil in DI water to seal my parts. For sealing I use another cheap stainless kettle.

Thanks for the feedback. I picked up some el cheapo stainless pots from the same place after you posted that and they have been working great.

MattiJ · Oct 17, 2017

goldenfab said:
Thanks for the feedback. I picked up some el cheapo stainless pots from the same place after you posted that and they have been working great.

Instead of stainless pots see if you can find cheap catering industry containers similar to Gastronorm.
Gastronorm sizes - Wikipedia

12 liter(~3gallons) stainless steel GN 1/2 is about 20 usd.

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