The Chayn Lynx is open for your custom chainmail-crafted needs. My business site is [link] - my store site is [link] - and my art site...well, I think you have THAT one figured out already. :heh:

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Well, seeing as I couldn't get the anodized aluminum rings I need when I needed them, I considered anodizing my own rings. After checking out the details of it, including using one or more forms of (somewhat) diluted acid, clean-room variety tubs and clean-up materials, the room all this would take up and the mess it would make, not to mention threats to my lungs (fumes) and every exposed body part, I said (in my best Will Smith voice): HEY-ELL NO!!

So I went to Plan B: find an anodizer in town to do the job on plain-jane rings I can order from other companies. Getting the rings is easy; finding an anodizer to do it is not. The first company said the rings themselves were "too small". The second said he'd have to charge $0.25 per ring which is "too expensive". Most of the other outfits I wrote never wrote back at all - probably still laughing over the 15 pounds I told them I wanted done.

SO, I took the second responder's advice and started looking for decorative anodizers. So far: nada. Which means I'll have to break out a Yellow Pages and start hunting them down one by one, or start cruising hobby forums to see if any serious R/C enthusiasts have a local outfit that does this kind of work for custom R/C vehicles. If anyone on dA knows of a local Houston, TX outfit that anodizes small-scale stuff, I'd REALLY appreciate the name!

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