Anyone know of any places that do annodizinh reasonably?

[glastornjet73]

I know there is no where that does it cheap but is there anywhere anyone has delt with on here that they had good luck with cheapest place i found to annodize 4 aluminum spring cups a motor plate and a graphite rear bumper was $100 and thats is i sanded and polished it all myself... Thanks in advance

[GoMachV]

I use a place called Advanced Precision Anodizing near where I live. If you
have parts that are in new or excellent condition, they charge $20 to strip
them with a soda chemical. The re-anno starts at $40 for a minimum shop
fee, for that you can do quite a few chassis and parts.

If you contact APA they will take good care of you. Good people. I will warn you tho, if
the parts are used you will see scratches and scrapes unless you clean up
the metal before you send it in. Polishing will make a much nicer finish.
Any residue like tape or glue will not be removed during the stripping

http://www.advancedprecisionanodizing.com

[glastornjet73]

Awsome! Thanks im just doing a motor plate rear "bumper" or whatever you call it for a graphite chassis a set of wing mounts that bolt to the rear tower and a set of hammad ghuman aluminum spring cups i have already polished the spring cups i am gonna strip sand and polish the motor plate and bumper first if there are a few scratches left over after anno im fine with that after all these things arent new lol

[glastornjet73]

Have you had anything done in there blue? Is it close to the new associated blue and by close i meen anywhere similar to the 10 diffrent shades of blue i have seen on there alum stuff lol

[GoMachV]

I actually am supposed to be doing a batch of blues this next week. I have tried quite a few of their colors, but I have never seen their blue

[GoMachV]

The other thing I forgot to mention, if you have already polished the parts then you do not need to pay for the strip. So it would just be $40

[glastornjet73]

Sweet lemme know how the blue turns out im waiting for a call back from him now do you know does he ship?

[GoMachV]

Yes, I have been told that they do ship

[GoMachV]

I just stopped by to grab some things that I had stripped and asked about the blue. This is their color sample for blue, he said this is what it looks like when it is in the dye for three minutes. He showed me another sample that I stupidly did not take a picture of, a one minute dye. It looks very similar to the team associated factory team blue parts

[glastornjet73]

Awsome! I could even live wih the 3 min one it looks like that was unpolished beushed alum so if its polished it shiuld be really close to the factory team alum stuff! Thanks man! This is what im getting the stuff annoed for

[Johnboy72]

Gomachv, when you say a batch....you maxing out the amount for the $40? I've been seriously considering sending you all my ReRe aluminum to add to a batch to split costs. Like a a group batch to offset costs.

[GoMachV]

I have done that a few times, it gets hard to keep track of everything… Like who's shock bodies are whose.
Also, most of the moment will need some work after stripping to clean up the remaining stuff, sand, palish, etc. For those reasons I really prefer not to get involved with group lots

As far as maxing it out, I have taken in four complete chassis with a whole bunch of nuts and bolts and shock bodies and cats and never hit the limit yet.

[Johnboy72]

Understandable.

[janaya]

That's a nice looking blue. So tempting to have my 10T stripped down and anode blue now.

[85Edinger]

Has anyone tried this?
http://valkyriercmotorsports.com/category/vintage_rc_restoration_services_anodizing.html
It says they specialize in r/c cars.