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Iron Forest Knives
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 30 ส.ค. 2015
Maker of the Remex multi tool. Solo garage manufacturer based in Edmond, OK.
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Anodizing 101: Professional Level Finish At a Small Scale!
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Nice space! Compact little machine as well, always curious to hear your thoughts on it.
I cant believe the time energy and effort your wasting. it would have just been easier and cheaper if you had taken this to a machine shop and got them to fly cut / deck a true surface with a larger mill.
I learned so much doing this, I don’t regret it at all. A machine shop would have been faster yes, but I would imagine a shop would charge $1,500 or more to flatten and cut a reference rail for 3 separate axis. Cost a couple hundred and now I can put rails accurately on anything with hand tools. Also this method has better vibration dampening than a machined surface will ever have, Important for lightweight machines. I sold this grizzly 4 years ago, but it’s still being used.
do you offer your anodizing services for other products?
I’m willing to anodize prototypes for people, but probably not batch work at this point.
Any new products coming out soon?
Not soon, just trying to get my current products in production soon. There is one idea I’ve been kicking around but I haven’t started on it at all.
Give making your own pallets a go! Its easier than it looks and once the cost to try a pallet Design is $20-$30 in material it’s easier to try new approaches. The pallet hardware is reusable. About half of my dozen pallets were made from scratch. Once you take the plunge you’ll Never look back.
Yeah I probably should. Looks like raw material is about $55 a pallet. I’ll have to try that next time!
Great to see the awesome update, it had been a while! Would definitely recommend trying to keep abrasives away from the machines. Do your blasting cabinet and surface grinder have good extraction set ups?
Yeah I built a dust extractor and filter for the grinder, the blasting setup is wet, so no dust.
Sweet!
Looking good! Excited for all the future projects to come!
Thanks!
When are Paragon's coming back in stock?
I just moved and still getting my new shop set up. I imagine they’ll be some tweaks to get the knives perfect since I got a new milling machine also. But I’d imagine they’ll turn out even better.
hell yeah, Cameron! congratulations
Dope! Perfect space for the new mill!
So excited for a shop not taking up half my gym! 😂
congrats man! look forward to seeing how you set it up
Lookin' forward to seeing it all setup and you back in production!
Update fusion launch name has changed with updates. use: #IfWinActive Autodesk Fusion 360
I was gonna buy a knife and there all sold out
Yeah, I just moved. My shop isn’t set up yet, I don’t even have a milling machine right now! New one is coming tomorrow though! Hope to be selling again in a month.
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As a "professional anodize technician" (big quotes on that one since I'm under 2 years at my company, but have my process down pat), this is the closest to a "professional" as you can get as far as home setups go, I'm highly impressed. The book by R.H. Probert is all our shop has ever used for reference and we always nail our thickness goal (.0005- .0007 measured w/ eddy current), except we base our power supply settings by constant voltage instead of amperage. Really easy if you know what aluminum alloy you're working with specifically. And don't worry, in shops like mine I splash my parts around in the rinse tanks the same way you do! You've got the best, and safest home setup I've seen. Kudos to you for showing the right way to do it.
Thanks! Nice to hear from someone in the industry. I’ll be upgrading my setup since I have more space at my new shop. Not sure what upgrades but I suspect it’ll just be more spread out, and in larger containers.
Are you rinsing with tap water or distilled water?
Deionized from my RO+DI system. It usually measures 0 ppm. When it hits 3 ppm it’s time to change the RO filter and DI resin.
@@IronForestKnives thanks for the quick reply. I realized after rewatching the video a third time that you mention the RO+DI System, and now I see it on your parts list from your google doc. I'm going to be building out a setup of my own following your blue print. Are there any changes you would make? I'm also a member of the fb diy group that's how I found you here. If you have a preferred means of communicating let me know. Thank you for all your input here and there.
Please make it again. I'll order it right away
How much did the entire set up cost?
I bought it over a long period of time… $500-1000 probably?
That was useful and creatively✨
Cameron - I’ve got a small fidget slider I’m curious if you’d be interested in anodizing… it’s a fidget slider all stainless steel that’s very near and dear to my heart. How could I contact you for more information?
Anodizing only works on aluminum, and there’s another type that’s for titanium. Stainless can be colored but only a few colors I believe. A chemical coloring. Look up caswell plating, I know they have blackening solutions.
The patterns you have are gorgeous. I am very curious about what process you are using. Are you using masking? The precision in the pattern looks printed on
I use a laser to engrave them. I used a c02 in the past but recently got a 30w fiber.
Wonderful video and fantastic finishes!
Thanks!
Here, take my money! 👍😎
Someday I’ll make more of these… or possibly a new version.
Hi where i can order your handbook ?
Thank you so much for the video! This got me up and throwing chips instantly. Thanks! Have a good day
Glad it helped! It’s crazy I made it 7 years ago and it’s still relevant haha.
thanks for yours videos.
THANK YOU SO MUCH
You're welcome!
Great video. Thank you for posting this.
Thanks for this great video! I've read that pre-anodizing prep with glass beads is a mistake since the beads can shatter and embed glass in the aluminum, which can then affect the ano. Have you had any issues with that? Have you tried blasting with any other materials (walnut shell, stainless steel beads, etc.)?
I do wet blasting, it’s much more gentile. The water acts as a buffer. I’ve never had glass embed. Never tried any other media other than AO which was also wet blasting. If I over blast the parts, they won’t take color as well in some areas. Haven’t figured out why yet, but I haven’t tried to find out either lol.
Very nice. I can see that as a daily carry!
That’s such a cool design!
I’m interested in anodizing aluminum hardware. How would you go about connecting the electricity to each screw?
Tricky, you either have to hold each one individually or I think companies use a basket of some kind.
thank you very much for sharing this, what wire did you use? titanium welding wire?
@@IronForestKnives how much votage and amps did you se to anodize all of those knife? from the video I saw you are ate 4.8v and 1.38 amps, is it correct? I thought for anodize we need minimal 12 v?
@@adityasakhakusuma2507 In my opinion… you need a constant current power supply. You can also do constant voltage but the times will be different. With CC the voltage changes throughout the cycle, it raises the voltage to meet its amperage setting as the part becomes less electrically conductive.
Using thermoses pretty smart. I was wondering what is good to use to get started. Is your spray tap water or is filtered/ neutralized water?
Are you in Arizona?
Nope, Oklahoma lol
I have so many questions
I like the vapor blasting.about the gun printed was interesting Can you do a part 1 and a part2 instead of condensed version. Explain your 3D printer and material you use for the making of the vapor blasting gun Thanks for sharing, outstanding video
Nice video, thanks. I have been doing the for a year or so-- mainly typeIII . Something that can help if you not sure about time in the bath and currents is a thickness gauge, you can get 99% repeatability.
*_Next video never came........_*
I’m a busy man lol It’s up now.
The nickel acetate got him legend has it, The guy typing above me is a fraud 🤥 😂
I just bought the same pump after watching your video. I'm doing my spindle bearings too, so I have full access to all the lines and will be purging soon. How is your system working? I almost fainted when Harig's parts guy only wanted $600 for their pump!
Mine is still working fine! Just make sure to shut off the pump when you’re not using it. It’s so quiet I forgot a few times lol.
@@IronForestKnives Thanx for getting back to me. I have an outlet on the machine wired to the on/off switch.
@@IronForestKnives Ok...Got the pump working ok. I guess I just didn't dig deep enough. Someone had monkeyed around with a homemade manifold that leaked terribly and could not create any head pressure. Made a T-manifold and pumps like a camp and I have throttled it down as you did to yours.
just started to do some anodizing and the aluminium wire that i'm using which is around 3mm thick keeps burning and disolving. the part being anodized then breaks away around an hour into the anodizing. kept the amps to minimum, around 1A and the part is around 4 square inch. Dont get it.???
Excellent walk through, thanks for making it and sharing! We have a slightly larger line. We found setting a programmable power supply to 16 volts constant voltage will then automatically put the current at the exact value it needs to be.
Nice set up. However, you will have an incredibly dangerous situation if there is a spill. You never want basic, nor alkaline materials in close proximity to acids. (YIKES!)
I have to have all of them, and they can’t be far apart or else I’m dripping acid all the way to the neutralizing tank. I have two different acids, simple green and baking soda water. No other bases around.
Hey I couldn't get the calculator to work. The link just shows values, not formulas
I noticed one of your knives had a zebra type black and white pattern, was that a masked? I have often wanted to try dual coloring.
I laser engrave my patterns post anodizing. Masking would be way too time consuming and therefore expensive.
Very enlightening, thanks! Has helped answer so many questions.
Did you switch from sodium bisulfate to sulfuric acid? If yes, how come?