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General Discussion / Re: 10.5 inch Plastic Reels & Happy Fathers Day DADS
« on: June 16, 2012, 08:15:38 AM »
Got some from Splicit a while back, but looks like they are currently out of stock:
http://www.splicit.com/plastic_tape_reels.html
Never had any luck with used ones from eBay...all too warped, but I suspect many of them were warped to start with.
As you mentioned having some of your metal reels colored, are you going to paint them or try re-anodizing them? According to a local plating shop, reels which are already anodized would have to be chemically stripped before the process could be repeated. The reel flanges are thin however, and cross-cutting one revealed the anodizing to be fairly deep into the aluminum.
If you have any success with this please let us know how it comes out.
Tom
http://www.splicit.com/plastic_tape_reels.html
Never had any luck with used ones from eBay...all too warped, but I suspect many of them were warped to start with.
As you mentioned having some of your metal reels colored, are you going to paint them or try re-anodizing them? According to a local plating shop, reels which are already anodized would have to be chemically stripped before the process could be repeated. The reel flanges are thin however, and cross-cutting one revealed the anodizing to be fairly deep into the aluminum.
If you have any success with this please let us know how it comes out.
Tom