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Assuming a well ventilated space, long heavy gloves, appropriate eye protection, etc....
You literally need some aluminum wire, a couple of buckets, some battery acid, some lead ( I use old fishing weights ), and some lye crystals.
Bucket 1: supersaturated room temperature lye solution
Bucket 2: water
Bucket 3: battery acid. Lead cathode goes on one side, part-that-is-also-the-anode goes in the middle
Bucket 4: water
Gunk gets cleaned in 1. If you leave the part in it will also remove an old anodized layer.
In 2 we just dip & rinse the lye off.
There's a bunch of math you can do for 3 if you want milspec Hard III anodize, but for basic protection and/or coloring just hook the ends up correctly and crank up your charger for 10-15 mins ( or longer, if you choose ).
4 is another rinse.
You can choose to dump it in a room-temp pot of dye and boil it for 10-15 mins.
That's it. El cheapo anodizo, presto!
( if you need 10thou tolerances, do the math or farm it out )
That's pretty simple right there, but I won't have the space to start playing around with that until next spring most likely.
The gentleman that I got the three motors that I talked about in this thread has decided to move locally, rather than to South Carolina, and asked if he can temporarily store his lawn Tractor and a refrigerator in one of my sheds, and he brought some lumber to fix up the sheds with, and he has designed a house for someone once, so we're going to be friends and I can learn a whole bunch of things I'm desperately going to need to know for fixing my house next spring. I pretty happy about this. He and his wife do not have kids, so he can actually hang out sometimes and do tool stuff with and learn how to build stuff.
He got here yesterday right around the time I got home from the VA, so he helped me get the new tool in the house. It was strange to have a second set oh hands to help me with anything, since my Kid seems to think he lives at Nana's now.:eyeroll:
Anyhow I'm psyched about making a new friend who is intelligent and can help me occasionally when trying to acquire a new tool. The second set of eyes to actively look for stuff I would like to see is going to be a great asset.
Today, I found this at a "Hock Shop". I almost missed it, as it was tucked away all by itself directly opposite all of the crap tools. Thank goodness! I turned my back to the wall in disgust, at what modern Human society deems "Tools". I hung my head low, and there, not two feet in front of me, appeared this little Diamond in the rough:
It had a little flap wheel sandpaper drum chucked in it, which was so not right, indicating it had likely been inherited or maybe purchased at an Estate sale by someone who thought, "Hey, great, a Drill Press! I need one of those, and since I live in an urban apartment, It is great that it is so small!"
Then, the Urban living made them a addict to something and they hocked the thing that even the person who sold it to them did'nt understand it's true value or what it could do, were the proper hands laid upon it.
There was also a properly fitted wood disc mounted to the table with some form of a rubbery silicone, though I would not know this until the next stop, where I got out and took the time to inspect and analyze my recent find. I had to take my Mom shopping today, so it was nice to have a machine to work on while she got lost in the grocery store for two hours. i walked my Dog, but then it started to rain again, so I ran inside and grabbed a cheapo $4.99 adjustable wrench, and took the motor off and wrapped it in a jacket to keep it safe, then set it on the floor behind my seat, and then did likewise with the machine itself. This way, some of my Mom's groceries, unbeknownst to her, could be cleverly packed in around the two, that in the event of an accident, the machine did not damage itself or any occupants. I gave her quite a bit of money for putting up with my bratty teenager, so there would be plenty of meat to pack the item securely as I could with what I had. I did not expect to get another tool today, so I was slightly unprepared to do the transport properly, and for this I gain an experience point and an extra adjustable wrench.
Anyhow, I think I want to go inspect my new Tool now, and then try to find out who made it, starting by seing what might be in between the base of the machine and itself.
The Pulleys alone are worth every bit of the $25 I paid for it.
It's funny how it's paint is perhaps from a different time or environment, yet the same tint as the tool I bought yesterday.
Somehow, it's like the machines have added some sort of element of life to my life.
Interesting that it should take Machines to make me become human again.
There is magic in life again!
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