# Can you anodize?

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-you-anodize/266733
**Category:** Vendor Marketplace
**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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### Author: ![slwrthnu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/slwrthnu/32/6296_2.png) [@slwrthnu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slwrthnu)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2013, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-you-anodize/266733/20 "2013-04-09T10:27:22Z")

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> [@Q: If you were to float down a creek on something....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/q-if-you-were-to-float-down-a-creek-on-something/52321/47):
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> 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.

my stainless steel luggage rack is rusty at every weld seam. fucking race land.

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