On 01/28/2010 10:50 AM, Pat Barber wrote:
The Unifence appears to be original and is up in the air on
restore. It is in decent shape but is gonna require a LOT of
effort to do total restore.

The front rail has got what appears to be anodized black finish.
I have never dealt with a anodized finish and am not sure how to
proceed.

Yeah, if there is damage to the black finish that you want to repair, that's going to be a
problem for the average Joe. I'm not qualified to tell you whether or not there are any
cured film finishes that a mere mortal could spray onto aluminum and expect it to last; my
understanding is that aluminum is next to impossible to "paint" and have it stick. Powder
coating, perhaps? I don't know; maybe Robert (nailshooter) can speak to this one.

My expectation is that you'll need to renew the anodizing somehow, and that's a job you'll
probably want to farm out to an electroplating service - *unless* you're like me and you're
curious (and twisted) enough to want to tackle it yourself, in which case you might want to
visit Caswell Plating to see if they can help:

http://www.caswellplating.com/

They are very knowledgeable and have excellent customer support.

A few years ago they set me up with all the goodies to perform simple anodizing tasks, but a
Unifence rail would be a bit problematic; I would have to build a special container to hold
it during the process, and I doubt I have enough of the various solutions to do the job.

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