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Avatar of Hunter Conochie
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Hello, I have just received my aluminium parts. They look awesome, and I’d like them to stay that way. I live near the ocean and everything tarnishes. Just wondering if anyone had some good ideas to avoid the corrosion (Anodise, paint etc)?

 

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Chris Annin
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Hello, On the robots I have built I have just polished the pieces using aluminum polish and have had good luck with them not tarnishing but I dont live near the coast. I have had several people anodize the parts, I would just caution that you may have to retap all the threaded holes and you may need to clean up or avoid anodizing the bearing journals. Here is a forum post on Mitch Lichtenberg's

build with anodized parts.

https://anninrobotics.com/forum/robot-builds/mitch-s-ar2-build-log



   
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