I see the framework 13 pro and I do plan on buying it. Although I do like how the current offerings of the Graphite and Grey, I do have a wish for anodizing it myself for more vibrancy and customization of design. But before i go off in June doing something stupid, I thought I’d run my plan by the community first.
From this youtube video found from this topic about anodizing (that later transitioned to coloring an f16 black), I see that there are magnets and various bits of stuff glued to the aluminum shells.
I therefore propose this:
I’ll buy a new shell with the bare grey color, strip away everything, KOH bath to remove the existing anodization, and then the usual acid → dye → cold seal using a NiF₂ solution at like 30°C to seal, and then use epoxy to get everything back in place.
Please someone correct me about anything so I don’t end up doing something dumb.
You may want to research fluorides, my conclusion was that they are pretty toxic – no immediate skin burns but tissue necrosis in a few hours. Iirc there are alternative ways to seal that are less dangerous.
Well I’m sure that there’s other solutions, but last I checked they usually involve high heat or boiling water, which kills magnets (I suck at research so there might actually be a way to do this without boiling water or caustic solutions but still).
Yeah that was kinda my idea to just seal up the magnets in the first place since I didn’t want to go through the headache of undoing and redoing the epoxy.
And thanks for the link about the KOH resistance stuff! Not sure if framework even uses nickel-sealed anodizations (boiling in straight water seems pretty cheap and efficient), but I think I’ll just figure something out if I can’t get the existing anodizations off.
Ah, I see. Going by a quick search, looks like sodium silicate is low-temp with medium-quality results, and there are also commercial mixes like SurTec 650.