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Iriditing Quiet Aluminum

Dear Sir,

How do you Iridite QUIET aluminum without staining it. Thank you in advance for your response.

Adel Taghdi
- Ottawa, Ontario Canada
2000

Clarify please? I've never heard of "quiet aluminum". Maybe I'm missing something in a translation, or it's product specific, but that term escapes me. Anyone care to expand on this for me and this guy?

Would quiet perhaps be pre-anodized aluminum of some sort? Where the finish is unsealed and therefore susceptible to accepting a chromate?

Matthew Stiltner
- Toledo, Ohio
2000

Try Alodine 1000.

BTW, what's a "quiet aluminum"?

Dado Macapagal
- Toronto, Ontario Canada
2000

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