hello there and welcome to inquiring minds my name is heather and i'm here with another pen
video i'm your guest host today as i will be doing an anodization experiment on this
titanium bolt action ballpoint pen that my dad bought me you see i watched his video where he
anodized a titanium fountain pen and i thought it was so cool that when he gifted me this titanium
ballpoint and asked me what color i'd like it to be i asked if i could do it myself and of course
he wanted to film it for me didn't you dad well inquiry minds need to know after all so here we go
let's find out what color or colors this pen wants to be right now
should i do all that again with the microphone sure okay so we've got a baking soda water bath
with about a tablespoon of baking soda and this fork which has been repurposed into
connector into the into the water cathode okay no idea which one it is okay it's one of those things
and uh so it is connected to the negative terminal of one battery right now the uh
positive is connected through this other wire which is connected to this uh titanium wire
which right now we have hooked up to the clip of the pen because we're going to see if it's
titanium or not and then it is but sometimes just the clip alone would be stainless steel
right so it doesn't change color at all we know it's stainless steel yes exactly that'll be cool
uh and then we've got the pen so the body of the pen and uh the tip of the pen i think is
i don't know what it's called i'm just going to call it the nose cone the nose cone the nose cone
of the pen and then like the back end of the pen this little screw thing a finial we've got the
finial of the pen here and it goes multiple colors it'll be finials rainbow i love it
okay so one battery nine volts um let's just see what happens with this clip hey yeah
i don't know
it doesn't wanna
but it's bubbling so that's at least a reaction okay um so
it still looks very silver well um and because it looks chrome to me it may have been chromed
right i mean if it's chromed it's thick yeah i wouldn't yeah yeah it looks like chrome stainless
steel well and cause what i i mean like i see plated finishes all the time and at work and
this looks like a really thick plating right so like if that is chromed it's it's going to take a
it'll take more than an emery board to get that off and uh then we've ruined it so no let's not
do that no i don't think it's gonna work all right so let's go for this little finial guy let's see
what happens we're still on one battery so this shouldn't go any further than gold that's right
aha that's the reaction we want to see so it is going gold it is going light
gold right now but give it a second we'll see if a little bit more time
oh yeah no that's actually taking it out actually
kind of helped a little first yeah it's golding up for sure
yeah yeah it looks pretty good i don't think it's gonna go any more gold than that
yeah but you know what this one looks like it's coming up it's it's pretty on par actually yeah
so this one's titanium content is higher than the other one um yeah let's try the nose cone
we do have bubbles on the fork oh it's gone
all right so if we put that up next to the you can see those colors are looking pretty saturated too
yeah that looks good okay so we know it works yeah so people that like gold yeah you could just take
this nine volt battery does it yeah you just take this and make it look gold right so because that
that comes out really nice and that was what 15 seconds not very long all right so the main event
was a lot more material here yeah yeah that fork goes off real fast
interesting made that noise though yeah that's an electrical connection directly metal the middle
yeah that's nice it was right here yeah yeah that came out really pretty like if i wanted a gold
pen we'd be done well we now essentially have a gold pen but let's do their stuff
all right so two batteries theoretically 18 volts
possibly with some loss and let's see yeah let's just dunk the whole thing in yeah the
agitation makes a difference i'm just sitting here mesmerized by the color change and thinking we're
probably like 15 16 because i think it might be about to cap out right before it hits that purple
that's really going bronze now yeah it's very bronze now there is an interesting
pattern happening here i'm not sure what's going on yeah that's very bronze
very cool compared to the gold that we just did okay so theoretically we're at 27 volts but with
losses i think we're somewhere between 18 and 27. right we should be into the bluish range the
blue range yeah so that's three batteries three nine volt batteries let's see what happens here
just interested if i just did this much
see that bluish so yeah we're into the we're into the blue range the blue range it's like a light
blue so i think it's just above that 25.5 on the chart just yeah probably like 26 27 and the water
level is just just deep enough to leave two rings that aren't anodized to the blue you can add some
more water you want to get it up there yeah maybe just a little bit see if we can even that out
i mean i can get it if i tip
but yeah it gets right almost to the top of that top ring another syringe yeah it's so close
that's what she said we're not putting that in the video
i'm gonna tell them that you were watching the office right before this yeah yeah
that's looking very cool that's really cool whoa that went like that light gold yeah like really
fast second that is gold yeah that is voltage loss right there yeah at 72 volts we have two four six
yeah eight eight batteries right now one more to get over 80. okay let's just do that real quick
no we're starting to see some purple it's like it's gold but it's tinged with purple
all right i'm starting to see purple pinky purple
there there you go look at that and we actually still have a little tiny ring of gold right in
the middle there just where it didn't fully uh coat that's cool well yeah that's exactly it
like i just don't know if i want to keep like cause i could flip it over right and i could
start doing this side i just don't know how much of the bronze i want to keep or if i want to like
change it oop and i got the entire it the water okay well that just made a decision for me
okay that's how quickly it goes well what happened with those yeah it's pretty cool the water tension
uh just pulled it up onto it and then it just like went right on it yeah if you wanted to
really have that bolt a different color you'd have to have it off well yeah i just i had managed to
get it to go blue uh separate from the bronze and that was cool i was like ah maybe i want
that to be kind of purple but okay so that made a decision um let's just do this yeah
let's make it look intentional
it's actually gone pinkish it's kind of pinkish rose gold yeah well on the oh no
it's starting to go all the way around yeah when i pulled it out it looked like it was just gold
yeah oh that's that's pretty it looks iridescent to my eyes nice yeah that's really cool the word
to lift your hat too yeah you're in essence iridescence i think maybe i want a little bit
more of this though and then we could maybe crank up the voltage and do the
nose cone and the finial like at the very very far end yeah with the purples and teals
look at that yeah that worked that worked so well that's very nice i got the little gold
band in there yeah i like it okay i don't want to mess with it too much more yeah
there you go thank you you're not feeder people no not too much that's good
so this is ten oh no two two four six eight ten eleven batteries batteries
and we're just gonna do the threads and just see what happens really fast it's gonna smoke
oh i got a little further than the threads but we got gold and then blue yeah it goes blue and
then goes blue green yeah we got that purple cool and then it seems like it's stalling out at that
purple oh we got some smoking it's really pretty yeah okay let's jump up to another battery here
i don't know why i thought that um we had already put the last battery on
so 12 batteries this is 12 batteries 108 volts it should go up to a blue green
we are getting a sizzle oh there it goes so the wire has gone blue green
but the threads haven't so it's probably just the titanium content of the pen itself
so yeah it doesn't seem to want to go green yeah it does not yeah i mean i think the closest we got
was the threads here are kind of tinged green but they're not really green yeah yeah so it doesn't
want to go past that lavender yeah there's a little bit on the dull side but i mean like
but really just on the higher voltage ones this bronze that it went is really very shiny still
uh all right so let's figure out how to do that uh see whether it changed color
like the oh the the clip it's very silver yeah it it did not go unsurprising
so that's very pretty for my over here yeah it looks really nice
nice little gripper thing that's nice too yeah it's like the same but not yeah which is cool
there now your bolt should work too yup
oh that i like it i think it came out really pretty
look at the inside sleeve that the bolt is it's still silver no it's not it does not you can't
maybe you can't see it from here but it's got two different colors it's got sort of like a
gold and kind of a blue just and the blue is just hiding right like it's just underneath the bolt
yeah and and even with like the the clip still being silver it's that's really cool i like this
i like that yes very much so i like the gold band you left between the blue and the pink yeah well
yeah this is the uh like because this is still part of the nose cone here and then yeah so i just
uh i went up to where it starts to taper back on the grip oh back on the grip a little ring of gold
on the grip section oh this little guy yeah i like that yeah i think it's really pretty
it's uh slightly reminiscent of a pride flag a little bit but i mean i'm not complaining
yeah it's got some pretty saturated colors even more saturated than the uh the match on mm-hmm
and yeah i think it did go kind of not quite teal but it did go a little bit on the blue side there
thank you i made this