Powdercoating is awesome... even WITHOUT an oven!, with promised pictures. |
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Powdercoating is awesome... even WITHOUT an oven!, with promised pictures. |
Lawrence |
Jun 24 2003, 11:22 AM
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Senior Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 1,661 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 244 Region Association: None |
I'm about 3 hours into my first powdercoating adventure. Man, this stuff rocks. Again, Ginter is right. If you have a garage, and don't have your own setup - you might want to rethink that.
My setup from Columbia Coating, including about 8 pounds of various metallics/clears was about 200 bucks. Pam picked up some extra natural corks (because she saw it on American Chopper). They seem to work as well as the synthetic/plastic corks for plugging bolt holes. I will post pictures later... gotta get back out and monitor temps. -Rusty (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smoke.gif) |
Lawrence |
Jun 25 2003, 10:47 PM
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Senior Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 1,661 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 244 Region Association: None |
The yellow box in the picture? It controls current to the gun and the ground.
How it works is like this: 1. The item to be coated is hooked up to a negative cable (with an alligator clip) and it's charged negatively. 2. Gun sprays out the powder. On the way out the tip of the gun, the particles are given a positive charge. 3. Particles stick to part. They stick pretty damned well, too. I was able to move parts around easily without knocking powder off. 4. Part is then baked, and the paint cooks into the lovely stuff we all like - a cured powder coating! Simple enough? -Rusty (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smoke.gif) |
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