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1/30/2013 3:39:35 PM EDT
I need a complete lower anodized after I get it engraved and drilled.  Anyone know of someone who does this kind of work?  I found a guy on the EE who will do an 80% lower for $35 but I can't have the trigger or hammer pins drilled.

I have thought about other methods but I like the hardness of the anodizing.
1/30/2013 4:14:05 PM EDT
[#1]
Not super hard to do it yourself. AR15.com had a tutorial posted years ago.
1/30/2013 7:55:24 PM EDT
[#2]
I have certainly considered doing it myself.  In the end though, I would spend about $500 on equipment and materials to anodize one part.  Not to mention I don't have a shop or someplace to safely set all the equipment up.
1/31/2013 8:18:04 AM EDT
[#3]
Quoted:
I have certainly considered doing it myself.  In the end though, I would spend about $500 on equipment and materials to anodize one part.  Not to mention I don't have a shop or someplace to safely set all the equipment up.


I anodized my own lower with parts that can get at hardware store for under $50
Don't need much room

1/31/2013 9:11:08 AM EDT
[#4]
Quoted:
Quoted:
I have certainly considered doing it myself.  In the end though, I would spend about $500 on equipment and materials to anodize one part.  Not to mention I don't have a shop or someplace to safely set all the equipment up.


I anodized my own lower with parts that can get at hardware store for under $50
Don't need much room



True,
if you want to get fancy. for $399 you can get a complete kit from Caswell Plating that uses 5 gallon buckets and Quartz heating elements.

Granted none of this is Mil Spec Type III hard anodize but it is workable.
1/31/2013 9:56:54 AM EDT
[#5]
Quoted:
Quoted:
I have certainly considered doing it myself.  In the end though, I would spend about $500 on equipment and materials to anodize one part.  Not to mention I don't have a shop or someplace to safely set all the equipment up.


I anodized my own lower with parts that can get at hardware store for under $50
Don't need much room



If you spent $50 then you already had 90% of the stuff needed.  The kit that AFSOC listed is one of the ones I was looking at.  Even that doesn't include the power supply, acid, or the dye.
1/31/2013 11:08:56 AM EDT
[#6]


I anodized my own lower with parts that can get at hardware store for under $50
Don't need much room

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If you spent $50 then you already had 90% of the stuff needed.  The kit that AFSOC listed is one of the ones I was looking at.  Even that doesn't include the power supply, acid, or the dye.[/quote]

Power supply was a battery charger and got the acid at Ace Hardware
1/31/2013 4:46:54 PM EDT
[#7]
Quoted:


I anodized my own lower with parts that can get at hardware store for under $50
Don't need much room



If you spent $50 then you already had 90% of the stuff needed.  The kit that AFSOC listed is one of the ones I was looking at.  Even that doesn't include the power supply, acid, or the dye.[/quote]

Power supply was a battery charger and got the acid at Ace Hardware[/quote]


Dye was RIT too no doubt, they changed formulations I hear. No idea why.
2/1/2013 5:04:12 AM EDT
[#8]
There was a tutorial posted by Fibergeek in the "Build It Yourself" Forum on "The Process For Anodizing a Lower" on 10/21/2000 (I have it printed out)

Unfortunately, the worthless Search function of the Archives will not locate it.