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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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 26 2003, 04:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 1,661 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 244 Region Association: None |
Next part in line to have clear cooked on it.
The entire process can be set up to be an assembly line. Some tips: 1. Generally, only metallics require a clear coat. 2. Spray all your base parts. Have a place set up to hang them to cool. DON'T TOUCH them with your bare hands or anything else! Just leave it be. 3. Then, you can cover them directly with clearcoat. yeah, yeah.. you touched it after the basecoat didn't you, cause it looked all purty? 4. Put some vinyl gloves on. You need to rewash with water soluble degreaser, and then flush with water. Get ALL the water off you can with clean lint-free towels. If you leave ANY water on it at all, the clear will water-spot. Best to pre-heat to 150 or so, as well, then spray clear. Attached image(s) |
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