Has anyone tired a home powder coat system? Craftsman makes one.
07-31-2006, 03:42 PM
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Has anyone tired a home powder coat system? Craftsman makes one.
says you have to put it in your oven afterwards (a non food oven).
Just wondering if anyone has experience with this.
Just wondering if anyone has experience with this.
07-31-2006, 04:55 PM
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Works great , pick up a stove from a garage sale , preferable
electric and get a detail spray gun assuming you already have a decent air compressor and you are in business. One caution, it can get messy. Having a beadblaster is recommended. I have all the above mentioned stuff and get the materials from Columbia coatings.com and techline coatings .com. Works also great for heat dispersant coatings.
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I have the eastwood kit. They have an insane selection of powders
<a href="http://www.eastwoodco.com">http://www.eastwoodco.com</a>
And overall am very pleased with the kit. Just don't use the house oven or your wife/girlfriend will kill you and harvest your soul in sacrifice for the home appliance gods.
(it stinks horribly and sometimes even smokes)
Here are some examples... look at the water pump pulley and coolant crossover (in front of the alternator)
<a href="http://gallery.trumpio.com/albums/album28/113_1345_IMG.jpg">Example 1</a>
It was extremely easy to get a mirror finish.
The alternator pulley here was previously done in flat black, and run for about 8k miles:
<A href="http://gallery.trumpio.com/albums/album28/112_1242_IMG.jpg">Example 2</a>
And overall am very pleased with the kit. Just don't use the house oven or your wife/girlfriend will kill you and harvest your soul in sacrifice for the home appliance gods.
(it stinks horribly and sometimes even smokes)
Here are some examples... look at the water pump pulley and coolant crossover (in front of the alternator)
<a href="http://gallery.trumpio.com/albums/album28/113_1345_IMG.jpg">Example 1</a>
It was extremely easy to get a mirror finish.
The alternator pulley here was previously done in flat black, and run for about 8k miles:
<A href="http://gallery.trumpio.com/albums/album28/112_1242_IMG.jpg">Example 2</a>
08-01-2006, 10:37 AM
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No not after, say 10-12 uses. Everything will taste like epoxy up to that point though...
the smell cannot be "oven cleaned" out either. My mom still brings up my coating adventure and that was almost two decades ago... that and the 340 engine swinging from the big oak tree in their horseshoe driveway just before a dinner party.