Powdercoating CRAZY!, PICS... very yellow Options

[yarin]

I finally got around to powdercoating some of the parts for my Megasquirt injection conversion. I used a Walmart GE $50 oven and media blasted everything a few weeks ago at my friend's place. Check out the pics. I kind of rushed it, there was some powder left over in the gun from a year ago and I didn't monitor the air compressor pressure close enough. Results are acceptable though (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif) Took me 3 hours to powder all of this stuff.

I bought the powder and gun from http://www.columbiacoatings.com/ The yellow is super mirrow yellow. I still have to coat the injector brackets, fuel pump bracket, and fuel rails.

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[yarin]

QUOTE (rhodyguy @ Mar 11 2006, 07:30 AM)

bright! how do you use the cb breather box with the fi setup? i want to lose mine(carbs). i'll be making other plans in the near future. i want my tin in something similar to irish green. to compare farming it out, what were your total costs? oven+gun+materials+(time?)? my local coater seems so reasonable. all tin/intake items blasted, some in black, some in cerama chrome (runners, air filter box) ran around $130ish. k

The PO had the head vents capped and crank vent going into a sports water bottle. GHETTOOO!! The CB box connects to all three. Simple as that. I'm not running stock injection, i'm in the process of installing megasquirt. There are a bunch of threads on here discussing venting heads and crank with injection.

My total costs were damn low. The powder cost me about $6. The gun i bought two years ago for about $70. I used my friend's sandblasting cabinet and parts washer. I looked into a sand blasting cabinet but you really need a high flow compressor, at least 8CFM at 70psi i think. Oven cost me $50. If you are going to powdercoat a bunch of parts or have friends that want to do the same, I would do it yourself. If you just have a batch of one time parts and don't want to be bothered, sent em out.

This powder I used suggested curing at 385-400F for 20-25mins.

"*" - do you know what columbiacoatings sells? Thermoset or thermoplast?