Heat Anodizing/Coloring Stainless Steel or Titanium
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- Please do not burn your house down. Propane and butane will work on thinner metals just fine. Something more dense like this knob required something hotter.
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Kids, when playing with fire, move flammable material away from your work area. Especially your compressed bottles of highly flammable gas 🤓
I had such intense anxiety watching this for that reason. It's actually why I checked the comments🤣
using a torch, on a wooden table, with several combustables literally inches away.... yikes
Safety 3rd!
I was heavily triggered by this
Explode first ask questions last......lol
It is a common misconception to use the term "anodizing" for creating heat colors. "Anodizing," by definition, requires electricity. What happens in this video is "oxidizing." ;)
To be more precise you are changing the structure of the passivation layer that is already formed from the chromium and nickel.
AFAIK this is not true. The titaniumcromie works also on grade 1 pure titanium, even if with more pastel colours than grade 5 or more alloys. The colours are not a pigmentation, they are interference ones depending from the thickness of the oxide transparent layer and from the kind of crystallization induced. As far as I have read, there are just two main species of crystals.
Anodizing and heating are two different ways to produce the final oxidation, indeed. It is therefore inappropriate to call what we have seen here "anodization".
So does this ruin the "stainless" properties of the stainless steel?
Thanks for the info
Change the title please. I was looking for actual anodizing.
Get a decent sized box of fine copper shavings, heat that thoroughly to the temp required, then bury the part you want blued in it. Also connect the part to something that spins at the speed you want, will make your life so much easier if you want to manually torch the thing.
Just had to comment again, I'm glad you change the title of this one.
A suggestion though would be as I stated previously if you do not seal that color in using an apoxie the color will begin to rub off on your hands and fade.
The colors from anodizing/oxidizing rub off on your hands, you say??
I seriously love the experts found in the comment section of TH-cam.
Looks good. I wanted to see more purple show through. The purple was obvious to see earlier in the heat process. As he worked his way down with the heat the top of the shift knob was still getting hotter since heat rises. Gradually heating the entire shift knob would allow you to decide the outcome of color...more purple means less heat more blue would require more heat. 👌
I was swapping out bezel inserts on a watch I'm modding and got to thinking about how cool the bezel would look heat blued. Going to give it a go after I get my spring cleaning and painting out of the way. Thanks for the vid.
the perfect video i was searching for
This is oxidizing... to anodize you would use a corrosive solution and electricity to "eat" (cause corrosion) into the material to the desired color and then to seal "lock" the molecules in place (hot/cold/both depending on the material). The largest difference in these two is that oxidizing (what you did) will "rub" away far more easily then the later.
One other suggestion (other then labeling this video correctly) is that when you are doing a video time-laps why not show a timer of actual time spent?
The condensation at the start is because the chemical products of propane combustion are CO2 & H2O. The flame itself is cooling on the steel before it heats up above 100 centigrade and depositing liquid water on the part.
That's so awesome
Looks so cool, such a cool concept. Would be a awesome DIY burnt exhaust tips
Nice video thanks bro. But dang boy you were next to a ticking bomb with all that fire material right next to the knob lol.
I doubt that. It's just the angle of the camera that makes it look closer than it was. Even if the torch grazed the can it's not like the thing is just going to explode.
Cool surrounding area with the gas cylinders and the aerosol can👍... This guy is so concentrated in the heat coloring of the knob that his mind is completely out of the safety zone 😄
Agreed
I wonder what shift knob manufacturer use to massive produce those coloring
especially the neo purplish + blue color looks very vibrant
That is a type of plating done to the parts similar to chrome plating
New game. Take a shot every time someone new doesn't read the 15,000 previous comments that told the OP it's oxidizing not anodizing.
You might be able to do neat things with a tig welder on low heat.
Guns Cars and Digits true
You can touch it with bare hands as soon you switch off the torch. It will have a light brown to flat dark earth finish 🤣
Great video 👍
I want to do this with my stainless steel fidget spinner. Would look so cool!
Gmon **CRINGE**
@@mrjackson1383 Lol
Nicolassusin Nicolas10 I don’t even remember commenting that
not gonna lie thats pretty ghey
4:23 come on man…. Just begging for that bottle to explode 😂 glad you didn’t kill yourself in the making of this. Stay safe!
Do you know how much heat it would take on the steel to actually blow the bottle up?
@@TheSlipAngle it takes 5 seconds to just move it out of the way and be safe. Is that really so hard?
Keep up the work. I know it may seem like its slow but your content gets better and better! I wanna have a garage like you in 10 years! haha
Thanks man!
Have you tried an oven yet??
:DDDDDD
Dude that's cool, I will give it a shot on my Ford focus ST winter beater.
Sweet. Let me know how you make out!
I have a stainless sphere knob. I love it. It is very heavy and I like that. It was burned a yellow/bronze color at my request. After a season of driving the color has completely worn off. Is that your experience? Guess its time to redo it. Maybe this is my excuse to get a mapp gas set up.
Maybe a thick clear coat or casting it in epoxy and turning it down to a thin layer would protect it better?
Will metal polish or any other cleaning remove this?
Yes
@@TheSlipAngle Can I just stain it again if I polish it out?
Nice video, do you know if i can do this on my stainless steel motorcycle exhuast? Will the color remain?
Great color. Video would have been better if your camera had stability control.
nice video sir, i tried it on my xbar i cant get even results like that, i guees i need a better source of heat, im just use a can with a torch plug in. wish to have same result as yours. got lot of patience :)
If the steal is thicker, then you might need something hotter. I was able to burn the exhaust tip just using a propane torch.
Home Depot or placed like it sell map gas tanks for like $15
Where's your safety glasses? Must be next to the aerosol cans....bwah bwah
Thanks for the video! This blue you get is hard to get out? I mean it's like permanent?
Anytime! You can lightly sand and polish it away.
Suggest 2 do the flaming inside a small brick oven u can just stack up to retain heat.
Oven/fire stove supplier should have these bricks. And, it's much safer too.
Is it possible to flatten titanium if you heat it up like this? Like if I wanted to make the top of your item you’re heating to make it flat, is that possible?
This would be so cool for a steel ring
Could you do this with headers
the chances are highly likely that I would have burnt the entire place down trying to get the shift knob to look cool!!!!!
They call him Dangerous Dave at work I'm sure 😃
Hey have u ever done an ano storm?
awesome music choice
Thank you!
Definitely don't like how you have the bottles in the flame path! Disaster waiting to happen!🙄
You should A tag team did with the propane.
Can this be done with any grade ss?
I'm thinking about doing the same thing on a bike frame.do you think is a good idea to cover the whole thing with just a little of gasoline or alcohol and set it on 🔥?.Or do you think I will mess it up I been trying to get the raw look too but with some color.i know sounds stupid but just wondering.
Do you have to use fire, or can you heat the SS in an oven? Thanks.
Just have to get the temps high enough to reach the color points.
Nice work
Love it
Thank you!
Does this impact the structural integrity of the material ? Want do to this on my bike frame.
Usually adding heat without rapid cooling will effect rigidity in metal
@@Th3_0_h8 best i can do is pour a bucket of cold water right after...
Rapidly cooling metal after heating will cause the welds to break
@@tjbroome1 yes that’s true. You are interfering with the intermolecular forces. It’s kind of like you break something and again reattach it with glue
Oh my goodness I was scared when the second torch went so close to the can next to it......No protective glasses? Thanks
The tips at the end would have been helpful in the beginning of the video
If you heat your steel to blue and then the part gets exposed to lower levels of heat (say the brown stage) will it change colors again or will it remain blue?
The change in colour is based on the black body radiation theory discovered by Max Planck. It says that when you heat metals, it goes from a low frequency to a high frequency. Red shows low frequency, blueish colour shows high frequency. It’s kind of like the VIBGYOR
2:42 you just gave me a mini heart attack
Why
@@jm-bn9sy not you
So, the propane torch worked for the Exhaust tip you tested on?
Yes it was
Nice dude, make that S2k look awesome! For which one is it though?
Thanks man. It came out of the AP1, but now after all of this I put it in the AP2 and ordered another brushed stainless one for the AP1 lol. I am not sure if I will try torching the new one though.
Around 4:30 I thought you’re trying to torch blue the propane capsule with your mapp torch!
Is that a stainless part? Or is titanium?
Stainless, but titanium will do the same
If i mess up the color can i polish it off and try again, will colors be as vibrant as the first burn?
Don't use an open flame next to a propane tank or a compressed can (or 4)!
you should spin it slowly to make it easier.
What gas you using?
MAP gas
What can I do if I have overheat and want to restore?
Who is doing your filming??? Looks like they have an epilepsy problem. Buy them a tripod please.
Is it permanent?
Would this method work with regular steel? I machined 4.5 diameter nuts to use for the assembly of my industrial table. I want the hardware to stand out. I planed to get them powder coated clear after the torching. Hoping the heat from powder coating won't effect the color if it works with torching it.
Yes it would.
I bought a blitz nur spec r stainless steel exhaust which is 304 grade stainless steel. I can’t get it to turn blue only purple but it gets blotchy. Any ideas? The metal was turning red it was that hot when being heated
This work on carbon steel?
It will but the colors won't be as vibrant. Google color case hardening
does the colour fade with time?
Yes it does.
Will this work with a regular lighter?
I had a pocket knife like a small one and i put it under a candle and it worked
That knob took a lot more heat to change colors than it should have
No since its not hollow
You have no idea how thick it is, or exactly what alloy it is so that's an absurd assumption.
I will tested on my exhaust tip (stainless steel), but the color change will fade over time as the copper begins to oxidize? What should i do to make it better ?(not rusty&permanent blue)
too much camera motion😷
What degreasers are you using tp clean up the knob before burning it? I'm doing a similar project with other stainless steel items, and I get a wide variety of inconsistencies in burn patterns. Sometimes its perfect, other times its blotchy. Any suggestions?
I used isopropyl alcohol but I also noticed some inconsistencies. This was really the only time I tried this. I haven't really messed around with heat coloring anything else ever since.
Garage Quinn Motors Thanks for getting back to me. A biologist friend of mine suggested mixing ethyl alcohol with isopropyl. Use that first, then simple green, then the alcohol mix again. Rinse with hot water after all of that. We'll see.
Nice! Let me know if you have better results with that.
Damn all that and yourr hoodie messed it up? Wow 😂
Just tried this with my exhaust tip and got almost no color change even using propane to heat it then a butane torch to finish it off. Got bright orange so it should have been hot enough. Idk tell me if I did something wrong. Btw I did clean the surface off with carb cleaner then decreased first
BTW what you did was heat treating.. Nice vid..
What about the tempering of the metal, say the hardness of a knife?
Hi dude, please, was it stainless steel or titanium? Thx
Stainless
Garage Quinn Motors thank you! And thanks for that video also!
Hello I got a question do you thing that we can make gold color using marker pen and then using torch ?
The first it starts to change to is gold, so as long as you heat it to just that temp range, you can leave it with a gold finish.
how long did that take (the second time when it worked)? hard to tell with the sped up vid
About 5 to 7 minutes. It wasn't terribly long.
ok cool thanks!
Does this require clear coat in order to for the color to stick, or is it durable enough without clear coat?
Clearing it would preserve the finish better. It will fade over time from exposure to the oils in your hands.
Thank you. Also, any clear coat you can recommend for this?
I don't have anything sorry. Paint is a whole other world that I need to get more up to speed on.
Please can you tell me where you got that shift knob from?
Maven Performance makes it
Thanks! Love the channel and builds!
What mixture of gases did you use ? The red and yellow cans ?
What to clean the stainless with before oxidizing it? I used rubbing alcohol and i keep getting spots and corrosion
I've always used alcohol. Some metal just has contaminates in it unfortunately.
@@TheSlipAngle Dang... I appreciate the response
I have a motorcycle exhaust pipe that is 304 stainless steel sandblasted to give a titanium look from the factory. Although it has become a yellow gold color due to heat but also a blue purple color in some spots. I have the pipes off the bike now and i want to get that blue purple color the entire pipe. Can i just take a torch to it until i get the color i want ? Thanks in advance for a reply anyone
HighVisi0n pretty much just google blueing steel and follow instructions
Heat rises. Would it be easier to start from the bottom and work your way up? This is actually oxidizeing the metal...
To be more specific (I'm not trolling you), "heat rises" in liquids and gases via convection. In heat-conducting solids, like metals, it is conducted in all directions.
I KNOW THE YELLOW TANK IS MAPP GAS WHAT IS THE RED TANK FULL OF?
Oxygen
Wow that is just wow
exhaust tips application maybe?
Absolutely. I tested this on an exhaust tip first and was able to color it with just a propane torch.
Garage Quinn Motors awesome thank you for the info!!
Surgical grade stainless steel doesn’t mean anything. It’s an industry term used to describe any inexpensive steel (not super steels or named high carbon steels). Usually from Pakistan.
Not even an industry term. It's a marketing term and any company that uses it should be avoided like the plague.
Do people even want to avoid the plague anymore? The last couple years makes me seriously question that.
Surgical isn't really a type of steel. It's prolly just 316 stainless. Good stuff tho. Hot!!!
It be sick to do this on ATV exhaust tips them be looking better with any colour
can I turn my gold stainless steel ring back to silver ?
Wire wheel should knock it off
I have 2 ?s do u have a video to color stainless red n how to make it permanently
It is permanent
try it with an arc welder
Hallo sir, how to remove colour for titanium torch m
Polishing compound
@@TheSlipAngle thanks
I think the camera could have been wobblier, that would have been cooler...
we manufacturer stainless steel products how we can do to silver colour give me products name we can do this please give me inforamtion
i want to do that to my Stainless Steel exhuast tips ,,i want to turn them in to blue Titanium.
do u know any shop does these work?
I do not, but just grab a propane torch your local hardware store and do it yourself! :)
Garage Quinn Motors will it work if the stainless steel has paint on it
Omg !!! if you ever turn steel I to titanium let me know !!!! :) :) :)
@@icey5white 😂😂😂
the result it doesn't fade in time?
It could fade a little from the oils in your hands.
Garage Quinn Motors interestingly enough traditionally after you heat the steel you are supposed to submerge it in oil while hot and it will make the surface more durable
@@TheSlipAngle You said that you couldn't replicate the bold colors of the first time. Could that be because it wasn't warmed up slowly like you accidentally did with the first torch that didn't really work?
You guys have that torch set wrong. that middle feather is too long and needs to be almost right up at the tip of the torch
Only if you want a single, very hot spot. He's using less air so the flame stays a bit colder and gentle. Makes the process way easyer
Bit wd40 helps before hand
Like your smile😁
hold that cam calm man! feeling im in a damn rolercoaster :@
Wondering if I can do my Glock slide this way 🤔
I am sure you could.
CINCINNATI SAVAGE the process is called gun bluing and its common on old rifles and shotguns newer pistols ie glocks have a durable finish from the factory so personally i wouldnt do it but in theory yes it is possible
ben garcia no it's not, bluing is a added finish using chemicals. You're thinking of color case hardening.
Did you use MAP and oxygen to achieve the color ?
Yes