FULL VERSION. Anodising Colours on Metal with a 9v battery. (Titanium)
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 15. 03. 2022
- In this video I show you how to do a DIY home project to create stunning coloured anodising effects on titanium. All you need is distilled water baking powder and 9v batteries
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As electrolytic rust stripping, this may work (though these batteries couldnât provide the needed current) but especially when the new âcolourâ appears to have formed above the liquid level as well âandâ you can use any metal as a cathodeâŠ..this is a year around April Fools joke that sadly, some gullible folk may not see! These âsimple way to do complex / impossible stuffâ are more unkind than funny.
So for me itâs back to making my free electricity machine out of a computer fan
My anti-vaxxing, 5G fearing, moon landing hoax proponent, Tesla worshipping, virtue signalling vegan, but so far free energy deprived (because of the conspiracy you know) son, sent me a good one. Something he really thinks is the bees knees. It's an electricity generator that you just throw in a river. It looked somewhat like the rotor of a push mower. I have to admit that it was shiny and had really good bearings. The fact that it wasn't connected to any sort of generator (or anything in fact) didn't seem to matter to the hordes of enthusiastic would be investors. After all, the guy looked like a really trendy counter-culturist. And he delivered his spiel in a room full of powerful electrical equipment. The real deal.
Wait, so this is B.S.
@@garicrewsen1128 No, i've seen people anodize titanium wheels bolt this way.
Brilliant! Thank you very much!!
Really clever, great job.
Great idea! Thank youi đ đ
Great demo, but one piece of info that was incorrect is that once you anodize Ti, itâs there forever. You can remove ano by using something like Whink rust stain remover, and then you can start the process all over.
could you use vinegar?
In the next video, the guy changes from one color to the next, just as stated in this video.
czcams.com/video/9Eut-Bu4Mpw/video.html
Be careful with it, though, itâs 1-2.5% hydrofluoric acid. That stuff has a reputation.
@@GRBtutorials what does this mean? what does that do?
Very nice, really cool.
*Wow, Great video. Thank you!* đđ
So many things I need to have a go at đ Thanks for sharing đđ
What you going to do?
@@TheManWithTheHat Iâve a few camping utensils which often get mixed up and âborrowedâ by other people. If I colour them Iâll instantly know theyâre mine đ Will the same method work on aluminium alloys too? Iâll do some experiments đ
Wow! So cool! Thanks for sharing!đđ€
âïž Great video, I never realized it could be accomplished using such rudimentary items. I want to try this with niobium, but I've somehow misplaced the solid 10mm thick x 125mm long chunk of pure niobium round bar I bought as part of my element collection 18 years ago. Maybe it would be better to use a smaller, thinner piece for this purpose. I assume the thickness and overall mass of the substrate will play a role in how rapidly it'll anodize?
You can do it!
Wow that was easy!
Thank you so much for this video!!! I will be trying this tomorrowđ
Hope you like it!
Fascinating! â€
New subscriber here. Fantastic!! Thank you so much.
Thanks for subbing!
@@TheManWithTheHat Absolutely. I am a chemical engineer however I never really looked into anodizing.
Thanks very much
So cool.
Thank you pal
Great information Stephen đ
nice, no messing with acids and dyes
as well as not getting any result
Brilliant video, Iâll have a go at this when I get time on some bicycle parts. I always though that anodising was a bit too complicated. Bit of a silly question but could you get black anodised using this method? Or is the best colour achievable just a really really dark brown?
Also another silly question, there is no green. Is it possible to mix 2 colours to get one colour?
Anyway, thanks again for sharing!
if the parts are made of steel, bluing is a very simple process that would turn them black
At 1:20 you say that you can't go back and the anodizing is there forever. this is untrue. It's actually very simple to reverse the color change (anodizing). Buy some Whink Rust Stain Remover (Hydroflouric Acid) and dip the part into it. It'll remove the anodizing, almost immediately. Rinse off the part in distilled water and your all set to try again.
Yes thatâs true.
Youâre a very interesting person! I had never heard of this
I believe most people identify anodising as an aluminum process, and the video is referring to a process on titaniumâŠI find my titanium takes on a beautiful dark purple blue hue if it's sitting in the sulfuric acid for a few hours, during an anodising run...I'm not sure getting any other colours on titanium is possible?
This
Yep itâs like when you weld titanium and you have these beautiful colours. You donât get these on other metals so much.
whats the easiest way to do aluminum?
@@bermchasin czcams.com/video/P8oesBi7_II/video.html Don't know if it's what you call easy.
Its called heat tint. the different colors are different temperatures being reached.
I found found my new science fair project cuz itâs literally due in a week
Cool! I have a power supply that can do up to about 600 volts... but another that can variable up to 120 volts. Those transistor batteries can get a bit expensive, and my Li rechargeable only put out 8 volts.
Thanks uncle
What kind of power drain on the batteries will it cause? Are you able to use the same batteries for numerous applications? Thx for the video.
Holy crap!
So, I assume if you use a variable power supply you could put the object in at the lowest voltage and as you slowly pull it out of the water, turn the voltage up and get gradual rainbow coloring.
Yes, but itâs difficult finding a power supply which will go that high in voltage
@@TheManWithTheHat Most will only go about 12 volts, unless you get a good bench power supply that can do 120V. cost around $80 - $100 but it's a lot safer than snapping batteries together. (Plus you can also use it for anodizing Aluminum)
@@TheManWithTheHat cheap bench supplies go to 30V, you can use a dual channel one in series for 60V, or use a variac with a rectifier and a resistor, or other current limiter.
9 volt batteries connected in series can quickly sum to a lethal voltage, above 36 volts is about the threshold, I would wear dielectric gloves as one precaution.
@@donm1547 amperage kills not relatively low voltage such as 36v. As a mechanic I've been hit with 10,000v several times by ignition coils. Voltage doesn't kill. Amperage kills.
hmmm đ€Maybe I can practice this method of anodizing and start making products to sell. The man in the hat is a really smart man for knowing the benefits of sharing knowledge. I think my future wife (a.k.a. boss) will like seeing this. hmmmđ€ Maybe not cuz she will make me do all the work while she goes shopping at the mall. đ
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um, if i remember correctly using stainless as an anode the electrolysis process gives off a chlorine gas, which is poisonous as hell. tin, aluminum foil, steal cans cut into strips can all be used.. granted ive not looked into titanium process, but aluminum is done will low voltages 5-12 v low 2-4 amp also fabric dyes get used in process. seen it done with cpu power supplies and low amp batter chargers.
There is no chlorine in the system - he's using baking soda and distilled water.
@@MrSunrise- yea. at the very most it will produce C02
@@MrSunrise- That;s baking POWDER -not soda- 2 different things..
Is it possible to do this process to fine silver or sterling.
...luv it !....with my luck I'll blow up the house...
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Thanks! I need to give this a go.
Amazing what you can do Tony
@@TheManWithTheHat I have a lot of keys ,to go through when I need to get inside of the different buildings.
@@TheManWithTheHat Hi sorry, I know you used tantanium, would it work with stainless steel the best?, I haven't seen a video to confirm it
Can zinc be anodized? I'm reading tri-sodium phosphate might be used as the solution?
I was startled to learn this. Subscribed.
Thank you. Are you going to try it
@@TheManWithTheHat I kinda have to.
What great hobby idea with zero learning curve! Thanks heaps for providing the voltage/color chart, BTW. IDK if you peruse your older video comments, but I've got a question: Does time in the solution make a difference in the saturation of the color or is it as pronounced as it's going to be in the first seconds of submersion? TIA. Cheers!
The colour change is immediate and immersed longer wonât do anything. Thanks for your comment
Watch out utensil drawer - have distilled water, will anodise đ
Try a stepper power box adjust the v and you can do loads
Congratulation. Can you give more details of the paint used? Thanks
I assume that clean fresh rainwater is just as good as distilled water?
I would be nervous of having 9v batteries series together like that. Don't their terminals get really hot when they directly touch each other like that?
Connecting them in series just increases the Voltage. As long as you dont short the poles (or lick the outer most poles đ ) nothing should happen... but there is still a Voltage of 45V when theese 5x 9V batteries add up...
Thank you for explaining that to Philip I really appreciate that
This is pretty cool, thank you. I will definitely try this
Can these be done to cheap potash metals and aluminum?
after treatment, do it then not rost ?
can you use deionized water instead of distilled water
I think the mayne problem would be the trace minerals like chlorine. You dont want chlorine gas in your house.
How can I get bolts and washers etc in bronze please? Thank you
New subscriber here.
Thank you so very much
I've got a chromoly frame.. will it anodise?!
I'd need a pretty giant container thoughđ€
Thanks for your video, that is new to me.
Will this protect from rust?
Can it be done with a charger, like a phone charger or a transformer, like 220v to 3, 6, 9,12 v, etc . . .?
Does it absoluyely needs those 9v batteries or any could do it, as long as you provide the level of power?
It can be done with a variable voltage rectifier
How many batteries for gold?
I did this to a piece of titanium and after it was done to the color I desired, it turned a dark gray color after I touched it. What did I do wrong?
Thanks.
Is this process works with regular nuts and bolts? I want to anodize my scooter engine bolts...how to do it to make it turn purple...
Only on Titanium bolts
will this work with tungsten? as im planning to do it with darts.
Can this method be used to anodize Aluminum to give it more scratch and wear resistance?
No. It does say that in the video.
Does this work the same for aluminum?
Nope, titanium only.
Can we anodized aluminium pannel in the same process?
Not at all because you need a dye for aluminium
Would have liked to see the results.
Then why did you watch the entire video?
@@TheManWithTheHat damn my mans. Be happy that he did..
Great work, can you use a car battery?
this is on titanium what about on other metal parts??? doesn't seem to work
It isn't working can you make a more in depth tutorial for how to troubleshoot
scroll up to the comment that says this is B.S. Enjoy!
DC current is more dangerous and fatal than AC current. Secondly the the route the flow of current takes through the body is also very important in deciding the fatality.
Wear proper gloves while handling electricity.
I disagree ac will grab you and you can't let go ask anyone who has gotten stuck to a old ac welding machine DC you can let go of
@@nathandevine552 Sorry brother. It is the other way. AC breaks 50 or 60 times a second, but DC does not. DC will burn through your skin like welding arc. I have worked on Radar systems for 26 years where we work with DC voltage of 6 to 12 Kva and 2 to 12 amps. I have seen our heavy gauge screw driver literally melting when accidentally shorted within seconds. So please remember DC current is fatal compared to AC. Ofcourse even above 100ma can harm you.
@@immanueldorai at those voltages and currents you worked with in radar either will be fatal and have explosive results if shorted. at 120~240 you can get stuck to AC DC will just shock you now either can kill you but there is so many variables like as you said the path it takes threw your body......I've been zapped by DC welders not that big a deal I got stuck to a AC machine and would be dead if my friend hadn't had the sence to switch it off
@@nathandevine552 everyone has his own experiences. In India we use 230 volt 50 hz and have experience of coming in contact with domestic electric wiring and points. Not much harm done till date. Welding is all together is a different story. Low DC voltage but very high current upto and above 200 amps. Just sharing my experience as a technician and instructor in Airforce since 1975.
Your experiences may be different.
Might be easier long term to use a cheap variable power supply than waste dozens of 9v batteries....
I have two power supplies but that defeats the objective of showing ppl how to do it with batteries.
@@TheManWithTheHat some people just don't get it, do they.đ€đđđŠđșđ
I couldnât see the color ?
Does this work with 6061 T6?
So would this work with plain, standard run-of-the-mill galvanized screws, nuts and so forth?
You didnât watch the full video did you?
@@TheManWithTheHat I did. You say get some screws from the local hardware store. But I always ever heard of this working with Aluminium, so it is unclear to me if you really mean regular galvanized screws.
@@martinweizenacker7129 The video only addresses using this method on titanium.
@@justinw1765 Yet he mentions steel, the first piece of metal to go into a jar in this video, and aluminum foil giving specific instructions not to let the leads touch right after talking about aluminum foil. Confusing. Why mention the other metals, let alone show a steel strip being place in a jar about to be anodized? Question is rhetorical.
@@garicrewsen1128 The other metal is just to make electrical contact between the battery and water to complete the circuit.
Why would you stop the camera at 1:44 and resume it if this is so quick and simple?
Because I can.
What type of metal can you anodized? Stainless steel? Aluminum?
Doh. I told you Iâm the video
I believe he said titanium. Aluminum is more complex and involves harsher chemicals
@@TheManWithTheHat You mentioned titanium like 2 times in the video and only in the end and the mentions are so casual like you randomly picked a titanium chopstick to show this off. You even say to go the hardware store and pick some screws and try on that, you never say it ONLY works on Ti.
@@sanderaits EXACT
How come you don't get a shock from the water and the electricity?
This technique works any metals????
It told you in the video.
how to turn your peen green in 3 seconds... "OUCH" lmao
Does it have to be titanium?
it works in stainless ???
It can be but if you wanted to prevent the color from fading you have to seal it.
Does this method only work on titanium?
It tells you in the video
Is it possible to use something other than titanium? for example like iron
please reply my lord đ
Not with electricity, but steel (including stainless) will grow a colorful oxide film when heated. Difficult to get the exact color you want when heating with a flame, but it's fun and easy to get semi-random colors.
@@dekutree64 thank's
So can you do this with stainles steel?
No
@@TheManWithTheHat damn. ok thanks
Can you do it with filtered water?
Try it and see.
Will this process work with mild steel? Iâm an Engineering teacher and my students made a quick bottle opener project to learn basic hand skills. Unfortunately, part of the bottle opener is made from mild steel which wants to rust.
No
Only Aluminum and Titanium can be anodized. Aluminum cannot be done as easily as Titanium. Aluminum needs some additional chemicals and dye. Titanium can also be heat anodized using a torch. In terms of doing something with mild steel, you can do a black oxide coating I've you're trying to do something cooler than just spray paint. Check it out.
czcams.com/video/TFfJwNvK1iY/video.html
Try looking up nickel plating I believe that will stop the rust problem
It's been a long time since I was at school, but I remember making a bottle opener, we were made to sand it down to remove all the oils from our hands, then when it was clean, dipped it in a quenching oil and burnt it off to leave a nice oil effect. Others used coloured glass tubes to make patterns once they were burn down
Teach them how to blue the mild steel,that's a fairly simple process, heat it up to a certain temperature and dip it in oil. You could cheat and buy super blue also but that's not really going to teach them anything
The vertical camera format is annoying. Turn the camera horizontally to film for CZcams.
Piss off
how many batteries for black?...
300
You mean to tell me that anodizing only uses electricity?
Voltage
How many batteries for black ?
Instead of steel I tried with a gold fish, and the result was disappointing.
You got a lovely orange colour tho
Sir what does chmical mix ?sir please
You are dealing with potentially lethal voltages.
Rubbish? Thereâs only 6 batteries. Explain why this is lethal
Question: can you do this with stainless steel that's already colored?
You canât do stainless at all.
@@TheManWithTheHat i see
@Đ I mistook the same thing, but the steel and aluminum are the anode in the process, which is particularly unclear in this video. Confusing and frustrating.
Will this work on silver?
Watch this video properly have you?
Where can I get a copy of that chart?
Search the Internet
SS or screen snip at the appropriate frames.đ„đđœđŹ
Does this work on any metal or just titanium?
So many people ask me that which means they never watch the full video.
@The Man With The Hat now there's no need to make assumptions I most definitely watched the full video. I heard you saying you used marine steel I think it was but I didn't think that was the piece that got anodised. I've had an awful day everything has gone wrong so I've been in a constant state of stress so I guess I wasn't paying enough attention. Or if so many people have asked you that maybe it just wasn't made clear enough. I'll watch the video again but thankyou for your reply
Sorry but I wat the full video many times.. you mention marine steel for negative and titanium chupstick OR screws or someting at your hardware store.... it's very vague on the type of metal to use
@runman1 yes I heard that. go get some screws or something but he uses titanium chopsticks. So are all screws titanium? Or do I need to find titanium screws? Or did he mean any metal? because that's what it sounds like. Glad it's not just me. And when you click the comments section one of the two guidelines is "questions welcome"..... well clearly that depends on the question. I'll go watch someone elses video who will tell me straight what metals I can use instead of dancing around the question. "So many people ask me that", yes for some reason I am not suprised
Thank you for the video. Is this specific to Titanium or does it work for Aluminum and regular steels?
Only titanium
@@TheManWithTheHat You stated it also works with steel and aluminum foil.
Does this produce no poisonous gas? With stainless steel?
Nope
Im just wondering, what make you bought Titanium chopsticks
MADE YOU BUY, not MAKE YOU BOUGHT. Use correct grammar and tense please.
@@mjremy2605 ok....what do you expect? I got c on final English test, i didnt pay attention in class and its my 2nd language
Jezz, grammar polices are everywhere
Forget him heâs an arsehole
@@mjremy2605 Y U SO Mad?
So many people are saying it doesnât work.
I just did it live on camera. This who cannot make it work probably didnât even go to school.
@@TheManWithTheHat Or they had crappy teachers.
Can you anodize aluminum?
No
Tell that to my job at lintec lol thatâs all I do is anodize aluminumđ
@@DavidWilliams-bu8xt Not through this exact method. Obviously Al can be anodized, speaking generally.
How can I get rainbow colour
How do i anodize it black?
Good question. I have no idea.
Be very very careful running too many batteries in series. HVDC is no fuckin joke. There's a video on CZcams of some guy that managed to get 900v out of a bunch of 9 volts chained together, and you could hear them arcing to eachother even with nothing connected.
Well, thatâs 100 batteries. Iâm only using six
Can we do at stainless steel material ?
No
@@TheManWithTheHat curious because you use stainless steel in your video? I'm not presuming you know, but I'd like to colorize a 20ga. stainless sheet with #4 (brush) finish... any ideas? I believe heating works but afraid it'll warp the panel (about 30" square) also
@@stainlessca4837 I made the same mistake. The stainless he showed and the aluminum foil he mentions during those frames are the anodes in the process. He doesn't cover that and that's why so many querying about the two metals.
I listened twice to be sure - typical misleading TikTok trash is what the block button was invented for. This will not work to anodize typical hardware store screws and he knows it.
*"COUPLE OF QUESTIONS I'M SURE EVERYONE WOULD LOVE TO KNOW"*
Everyone seems to have a different approach on their choice for electrolytes. I've been using fire (MAP and Propane annealing) for years but I'm trying to up my game...
*1.* Being a jeweler, I do a ton of gold and precious metal plating so have all the equipment for professional full submersion anodizing but only now getting into it in an attempt to achieve smoother, more controlled coloration. While I know you said you use baking powder, another video said baking soda was much better and AI Chat seemed to agree asking which is better for anodizing. I've also been told vinegar is better, but stronger electrolytes like sulfuric acid or common salt (sodium chloride) are best. Do you have any thoughts on all this where you may have tried a few of these methods for comparison?
*2.* Also, if not using the 9v battery run everyone seems to be recommending for power having a Lab Grade [LED High Precision Variable Adjustable 0-30V 0-5A DC Power Supply, what Votage and what Amperage do you recommend?
*3.* Finally, should the Cathode be Iron like some have told me or stainless steel (which is what I'm very use to using for gold and precious metal plating)?
The last thing first. The Cathro should always be marine grade stainless steel.
The reason I use batteries in this demonstration is so that anybody can do a one off piece at virtually little cost whereas the professional kit would cost hundreds of pounds and therefore wouldnât make such a good video For everyone in order to be inclusive.
I have never tried anything other than baking powder, but I am willing to give it a go and post the results
@@TheManWithTheHat Totally makes sense about why not to use Sulfuric acid but common household salt might be a good one for you to try. Don't get me wrong, I'm not critiquing what you are doing here as like I mentioned I'm a gold and precious metal plater, not an anodizer and only going off of what others have told me is best. Yesterday I did try a combination of salt and vinegar which I think I may have made far too strong but it literally melted my stainless steel making it look like it was just bleeding blue ink in the water and I was only using 3 volts @ 1.6 amps. I plan on trying your method this week but want to get some comparative results experimenting with different things as well..
What the hell is a "quid"?
I quid is a one UK pound
@@TheManWithTheHatWhy don't you just say that then? And I assume you mean pound sterling rather than a pound in weight? Why are the English so bad at English?!
BTW Just winding you up!