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I know people have asked about Anodizing chassis' but i want to start smaller.

I want to get ready for this year racing season, and I wanted to add a bit of color to my car by changing the color of my Ti turnbuckles. I use the Lunsford Ti turnbuckles, but i wanted to have something other than silver.

I tried looking thru the u-Tube but I want to find a way to make it RED, and I think I recall seeing Gold and obviously AE uses Blue, but I want to try Red.

Suggestions? Can it be done at home?


MOmo

You might try these guys. I had a look through the site and didn't see anything for titanium but just about everything else...
http://www.caswellplating.com/index.html

ok if you are wanting to learn to anodize alloy bits at home starting with titanium is the wrong way to go. they each have completely different ways to be done.

now if you are just wanting to be different with your titanium bits then more power to you. but just don't expect the same type of results as you would with anodizing aluminum.

this page is a good read for coloring titanium. http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/magic-color-on-metal-titanium/

You can do gold yourself:

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i don't think ti take's anno very well. look at the ft ti blue turnbuckles, you can almost wipe the blue off.

I know its cheating but a local always had different colored alloy bits with a decent finish so I asked him one day and he told me he used ink . The old stamp pads that you put ink on and hit it with your stamper. He did some for me in I think green awhile back on some lundsford titanium for an RC10GT. I was trying to match up some old green hopups and it turned out kinda close. He would roll or whatever to get an even finish and then let them dry under a heat lamp. Surprisingly they never 'bled' to my fingers

Todd