Apex BF Customs

[element77]

My phone doesn't play nice, and now using the stove top technique, I'm "heat coloring" everything at the moment. My manta just turned out incredible, 510 connectors, other caps and more I'll post up later, when I'm loaded up on my pc

 

[McPuff]

 

[element77]

heat treat

 

[McPuff]

Picture 2 is awesome!!!
That was stainless? And you treated it on the stove? Can you share the how to? Please

 

[element77]

Picture 2 is awesome!!!
That was stainless? And you treated it on the stove? Can you share the how to? Please

Thanks.
Yes.
Yes.
No problem.
I just turned my electric stove to 3/4 the way on, cleaned the atty in hot water to remove any finger prints, and dried.
Used my ceramic tweezers to grab the atty "operation style" and place it thick side down directly on the oven coils. Had a untreated on sitting close by to observe the changes and after it reached the desired color moved it over to the unheated forward coil to cool down.
Sitting longer resulted in darker changes, and set at "high" left longer would result in blueish purple hues.
Experiment with undesirable dt's or something first...the thicker the SS the slower the results....have fun post pichers

 

[McPuff]

That's really cool man. Thanks I will give it a try with some extra stuff I have around

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

Thanks.
Yes.
Yes.
No problem.
I just turned my electric stove to 3/4 the way on, cleaned the atty in hot water to remove any finger prints, and dried.
Used my ceramic tweezers to grab the atty "operation style" and place it thick side down directly on the oven coils. Had a untreated on sitting close by to observe the changes and after it reached the desired color moved it over to the unheated forward coil to cool down.
Sitting longer resulted in darker changes, and set at "high" left longer would result in blueish purple hues.
Experiment with undesirable dt's or something first...the thicker the SS the slower the results....have fun post pichers

Too cool, e77! Really like the effect.

 

[kkiet]

Turned out really nice, great idea!!!!!!

 

[AllPepperS]

Wait, are you doing this in an oven or on the top? I am not quite picturing this, the only electric. oven I can see has no way to put anything right on a coil. My range at home is gas, so I'm looking at the stove at work. [emoji53]It's pretty old looking. I would really like to do this to one of my Manta's yours looks great Ele77


Tapapaw[emoji252]

 

[Train2]

I think he means something like this

Though I guess you could do something similar with a pan on top of a flame (I'd let it slowly get hot first) or maybe even on a sheet in an oven?

 

[kkiet]

Wait, are you doing this in an oven or on the top? I am not quite picturing this, the only electric. oven I can see has no way to put anything right on a coil. My range at home is gas, so I'm looking at the stove at work. [emoji53]It's pretty old looking. I would really like to do this to one of my Manta's yours looks great Ele77


Tapapaw[emoji252]

Maybe try puting it on a pizza pan on one of the gas burners, just a thought.

 

[AllPepperS]

[emoji3] I was thinking he meant a burner on the top, that makes sense to me and so does putting it in a pan, ok cool, I'll give it a go next week when I get back to work. Thanks


Tapapaw[emoji252]

 

[element77]

Yes train is correct , steps I posted used the coils on an electric stove top.
Let me know if you have any more questions, it was the most consistent technique I've ever used. The results were perfect for what I wanted.

 

[element77]

I've done pan in oven and pan on a gas burner, neither worked. Your pan doesn't get hot enough to glow, thank God, and the temperature range needed for color is in the 450-600° range, it begins turning a yellowish straw, then gold, then bronze, next purple, to blue, to ashy ugly gray. The time between color changes speeds up rapidly as you go towards blue, so that color is the most difficult to achieve. You have to pull it from direct heat at precisely the right moment.

 

[AllPepperS]

Thanks ele I 'm going to practice on some tips, so when you did the Manta did you put it top down?


Tapapaw[emoji252]

 

[element77]

I began with the air sleeve flat surface down, it changed really quick due to its relative thickness. Next came the threaded top ring, flat surface down, that one I left on longer and even achieved some slight blueing on the flat surface only and purple inside, but you won't see it unless you removed it and looked. The outside edhes that you do see are perfectly matched. Next came the top cap, the thickest and largest part. Took more time for the heat to evenly conduct, but not more than a few minutes to begin seeing a change, I left it on the longest, and that also meant with more material to distribute heat, a greater margin for variance in time, aka: It doesn't turn as quickly. The 510 from fdv, those suckers changed within a minute, very quick.
I wish you success.

 

[Roscoe01]

Been awful quiet around here this week.....

I mistakenly left my Albatross at work yesterday and I was off today. My Avion is down at the moment as I have robbed a part off of it [emoji46] .....I have been using "other" mods today and....I'm fixin to make a special trip to work to get my albatross. I have ruined myself as my other mods are such a pain. Cleaning contacts all day long is not my idea of fun[emoji35] I'm thinking it might be time to build a mosfet mod for a backup[emoji6] or maybe another Avion for myself.

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[Roscoe01]

Another Avion in the mail. This one headed to Mr ClarkF.

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[Roscoe01]

Avion list. $195 plus shipping

001. Prototype
002. Mommabird62. Complete
003. Todd ..complete
004. McPuff " complete"
005. RiverNut ...mini..complete
006. Element77 ...complete

..........end of early adoption. .....
007. havok333. ...complete
008. Undisclosed. ….H....complete
009. Papa_Lazarou ...complete
010. Loopy1224....almost done
011. Whiplash205...complete
012. Clark F....complete
014. fatboylim 18500...in progress
015. Robbieblood. ..in progress
016. AllPepperS (Mini)
017. Iron
018. Share2Care
019. Suzy lee
020. osrix
021. snakedoc
022. Cliven



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[Whiplash205]

Finally got home to grab mine from the mailbox. Awesome job Roscoe. Pics as soon as I can get some sunshine here.

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