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January 23, 2006
Surfin': Wear Rate of Metal Surfaces
How hard, that is, resistant to wear, is an anodized alumninum surface?
Quite good, actually.
Here's an interesting link to a Products Finishing magazine article on anodization.
"Anodized Bright; Anodized Tough"
Scroll to the bottom of this page to see an interesting graph of wear testing (using a Taber abraser testor) for anodized aluminum, stainless steel, chrome, regular aluminum and some other surfaces.
Result: Steel is initially more wear resistant, but anodized aluminum wins in the long run (per this test).
Posted by Tim Walker at January 23, 2006 10:38 AM
