First attempt at anodizing

[Txcwboy]

JUst finished my first attempt at anodizing TI. Limited success.My home built anodizer didnt blow up thats a positive ! Do you HAVE to use distilled water ? I didnt, I couldnt find anywhere in my instruction that said to. I didnt spend a lot of time on the polishing/cleaning either. I was just testing color and function . The colors were NOT very bright and took VERYYYYYYYYYYYYY long time to develop. It also appears the color I wanted took twice the voltage to get. Light blue came at 114 volts not 60ish.Blue came at 80 volts not 38ish.The small piece was inserted all the way up to the broze color at all times.Color would progress up not everything that was submerged coloring at once.Any ideas ?

Dave


The small piece was cleaned and lightly polished.It had 80 volts on it the other one has a light blue at bottom you cant really see, it was made at 120.