Anodizing experts: Mavic Sunset???

[DM]

I'm sure most people on here are familiar with the amazing "sunset" anodizing that Mavic used on some rims. The one that flip-flops purple, brown, red, gold...

How did they do it?

Is the "sunset" anodizing a well-known process that most finishing companies know how to do?

How could I get it reproduced - and by whom?

And where can I get a bunch of silver X517s to experiment with

Thanks.

 

[FluffyChicken]

I have never seen the rims personally so don't know if they are anodised but I would assume they are painted.

If someone could control anodising sufficiently well and you can dye with the required dopants (if that what they call it in anodising?) to sufficiently accurate and thin-film depths somehow creating different refractive indexes at each layer in a way that it would work. My thoughts are that it wouldn't be possibly via anodising as you would need to go into the layer you have just anodised so the dyes would mix...

It would be much easier to coat the metal in thin-film 'paint' to cause the iridescent effect or deposit metallic coatings on to the rim in thin layers.

I guess you may know pearlescence paint better then iridescent ?

 

[Enid_Puceflange]

I used to play tourney paintball

One of the uk manufacturers (planet eclipse) did an anodise called aurora finish

Check this stuff out ...........
http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=aurora ... 24&bih=410

Gc

 

[MikeD]

It didn't really "flip", it was just different colours at different points around the rim. Doesn't really answer the question, though

 

[DM]

It didn't really "flip", it was just different colours at different points around the rim. Doesn't really answer the question, though

Good info - thanks.
And maybe it does answer the question.

I found a thread about applying heat to black anodized parts (in this case Maglite torches). It seems it's possible to get color fades like sunset or a uniform color-shift on the whole component:

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=247493

Soooo... I need to find a pair of black anodized X517 rims and a 26-inch pizza oven...

 

[DM]

I used to play tourney paintball

One of the uk manufacturers (planet eclipse) did an anodise called aurora finish

Check this stuff out ...........
http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=aurora ... 24&bih=410

Gc

Yes, I keep finding fancy anodizing on paintball forums.
This one with the anodized Johnny Cash image is very impressive.

I can imagine my local industrial finishers just shaking their heads and saying "Color-fades? Pictures? No, mate, can't be done..."

 

[S8-Tom]

And where can I get a bunch of silver X517s to experiment with

You might struggle with the steel eyelets in the rim. Steel doesn't like anodising.

Would be interesting to find out how it's done though.

 

[marin man]

That aurora finish is amazing......I sense a whole frame like that coming up

 

[MikeD]

If you want a sunset rim I've got one lurking somewhere not doing owt ;-)

 

[DM]

If you want a sunset rim I've got one lurking somewhere not doing owt ;-)

That might be easier
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