Heat treating a SF

So, I got my hands on an old 6P LED Defender. It was totally beat up. I am planning on doing something like cerakote or a custom annodizing.
But before I do that, I am still waiting on parts for my torchlab triple, and all the parts including trying to find a z41 tailcap. I got bored, and decided to hit her with a flame.

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I can't do the tailcap, as its a z59, and I want to keep it good, maybe trade it for a z41, or sell it. But I did the body/head/bezel. The anno now is way weaker than it was as black. So, I will be stripping it down to bare, and getting cerakote(4bush) or a custom annodizing sooner or later here. I just wanted you all to see what it looked like heat treated. ( It starts out black, but I cooked it for way longer to get the lighter coloring, and to make the sf annodize weaker to strip it later.

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I didn't think you could heat treat aluminum. The anodizing is a chemical finish that oxidizes and hardens the aluminum.

Brasso said:

I didn't think you could heat treat aluminum. The anodizing is a chemical finish that oxidizes and hardens the aluminum.

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You can't heat treat aluminum as itself. I baked the anodizing. It was the same black as the tailcap. When you heat the anodizing, it will change to a rust, rusty tan color. Type II ano.

It used to be black.

You can cleanly strip the anodizing by soaking the parts in Greased Lightning cleaner...no need to use Dran-o and risk potentially pitting the metal (or sanding). When I stripped some Type II parts before, it only took about 30 minutes to completely remove the anodizing revealing shiny, bare metal...

Jumpmaster said:

You can cleanly strip the anodizing by soaking the parts in Greased Lightning cleaner...no need to use Dran-o and risk potentially pitting the metal (or sanding). When I stripped some Type II parts before, it only took about 30 minutes to completely remove the anodizing revealing shiny, bare metal...

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I just figured I would bake it and see how it looked. I just use oven cleaner and it comes right off.

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