# Can you anodize?

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**Created:** [April 8, 2013, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-you-anodize/266733 "2013-04-08T11:52:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-you-anodize/266733/17 "2013-04-09T09:58:44Z")

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> [@rider down](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rider-down/52336/8):
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> When you oxidize ss you don’t get rust. :lol

sure it can can. Not all stainless is 100% iron free. shitty grade stainless has enough iron content in it to rust. Its just like welding it with too much heat and not enough shielding gas, or shielding it long enough to cool past the point its susceptible heat wise to oxidization.

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