Agreed. I think the word Paul was looking for is "Tuftrided" or "Nitrided". Both of which may be trade names rather than generics. Anodising is the process of colouring the colourless skin of oxide which forms almost instantly on fresh aluminium or its alloys.
mike Bruce Rubenstein wrote: > > Aluminum is NOT the material of choice for crankshafts. I know of no crankshaft > using aluminum. Pistons, heads, blocks, yes: no crankshafts. > > --- Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anodizing can be > > colorless and is sometimes used just to harden things. Crankshaft journals, > > for example, are hard anodized for > > racing applications. > Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� > http://movies.yahoo.com/ > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
