Best paint for SS hangers/ anchors?
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Since we're still snowed in up north, figured I'd use this time to do some prep-work for the upcoming season. What type of paint or other product are folks using to camo their hangers and anchors? Thoughts on what holds up well when applied to SS (if it matters)? |
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Sand off the polish with a piece of emery paper then paint it with your favorite colors of Rust-Oleum. The ones I put in Eldorado 24 years ago are still in fine shape. |
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Here’s a link to some other discussions on the topic. Seems painting is a bad idea as it traps moisture. Stainless hangers usually are pretty dull and thus fairly camo without painting them. I’ve placed painted carbon steel, painted stainless, and have since moved to using non painted stainless exclusively. So check back with me in about 25 years for some data on the different options. |
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Thanks! Searching "paint" instead of "camouflage" returns better results. I remember reading one of these years ago, but couldn't find it in the forum archives. |
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We don't encourage or recommend painting stainless bolts, not only will you increase the chance of corrosion you prevent the bolt being inspected. |
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How about aluminum gates, Jim? I just put together all these anchors before I realized that the red gates are heinous. They are aluminum gates on plated steel captive biners. |
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Brandon Fields wrote: Assuming you're placing these somewhere in the front strange, I wouldn't worry about painting the gates. The biner will probably wear out before corrosion on the gate becomes an issue. |
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Our experience is the gates seize up and get corrosion cracks around the pivot pin. Since they don't conform to the EU standard or UIAA we don't have anything to do with that style of biner anyway. |
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eli poss wrote: That's kind of what i was thinking myself, but i was second guessing myself. The $$ was on point for these, but it's hard stomaching putting anything up that isn't just grey. |
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Jim Titt wrote: Our experience is the gates seize up and get corrosion cracks around the pivot pin. Since they don't conform to the EU standard or UIAA we don't have anything to do with that style of biner anyway. I need a direct feed into your brain. I wish i knew 1/100th what you do. Thanks again for the info! |
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Thanks Jim! Hit one of my hangers with a torch for < 1 minute and its now is significantly more dull and well colored for our local limestone.Below is a comparison between a new and torched hanger. |
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Can the same light torch treatment be done on the other stainless components? Say I want to dull the long link chain and ramshorn? I’m assuming yes but ... |
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mattm wrote: Can the same light torch treatment be done on the other stainless components? Say I want to dull the long link chain and ramshorn? I’m assuming yes but ... I second that question. What are the signs that you have over cooked the steel? If that is possible with a torch. |
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Bobby Hutton wrote: If it turns blue, you've damaged it. This is supposed to be the result of "extreme heat" (ie something like a fire that burned down a building) so I'm guessing it's pretty difficult if not impossible to do with a torch but not sure. |
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eli poss wrote: Blue on stainless is around 500+C and has no effect at all. We anneal it at over 1100C and weld at over 1500C, the normal service temp for 316 is around 870C. The only hassle with heat tinting is it's too slow for us to do it. The color charts and temps are easy to find, search for stainless steel heat tint color charts. |
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Jim Titt wrote:Interesting. When I worked on a zipline, they told us that when the cables (aircraft grade steel) were exposed to extreme heat they would turn blue and they would need to be retired. Now that I think about it, I think they may have been galvanized steel, not stainless, if that makes any difference. |
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Thank you Jim, |
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Some steels become re-tempered and embrittled at an astonishingly low temperature. |
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We leave them in a tumbler a couple days longer and it dulls them down significantly. No heat treating, smoother edges etc.. just leave a note in the comments and we'll do it at no extra charge. |
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Chris Vinson wrote: We leave them in a tumbler a couple days longer and it dulls them down significantly. No heat treating, smoother edges etc.. just leave a note in the comments and we'll do it at no extra charge. Very cool. Does Climb tech offer a bulk discount on those hangers? |