On Thu, 05 May 2005 19:52:09 GMT, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
wrote:

I have a need for a very abrasion-resistant coating on aluminum that will
resist sticking of wet sugars under high compression. If a very high
abrasion-resistance isn't available, then a re-coatable system would be
acceptable, so long as I don't have to remove any base metal (more than a
few tenths) to do it.

Any ideas? And are any of them home-shop do-able? (I'm willing to invest a
couple of $K in hardware and chemicals, if so)

LLoyd

Hard coat anodize. Get it as thick as you can, about .005". This
coating will be half way into the surface so that a .005" thick
coating will only add .0025" to the surface. Hard coat is a ceramic
coating and is very abrasion resistant. Not so resistant to alkaline
solutions. I don't know what ph your sugar solution is. Wouldn't it
just be easier to buy bags of sugar for your moonshine? Instead of
squeezing it out of cane?
ERS