Thanks Fred, I'll eagerly await your info. I'm not crazy about paint
stripper etc. however. I believe that the cleanliness of the parts is
vital. I also believe that a home garage is not the place to be spraying
powder. One would almost need a dedicated facility.
John
>John McEwen wrote:
>>
>> Hi Listers;
>>
>> We shoudn't lose sight of the fact that powdercoating requires the use of a
>> sandblaster to prepare the metal. Before we rush out to wire our ovens,
>> perhaps we should check the state of our blast cabinets. My feeling is
>> that while I love powdercoating, the size of parts we can do in a small
>> oven doesn't really save us, compared to the price of having a box full of
>> small bits done at the professional's shop. If you are doing continuous
>> restoration, it might be justifiable but you should examine the cost of
>> appropriate cabinet, compressor, media, bake facility. Compare this with
>> the cost of having work commercially blasted then home powdercoated,
>> especially when we know that the powdercoater includes blasting as part of
>> the price.
>>
>> John
>>
>> >This is a great idea, but a real concern I have is getting it from wherever
>> >you paint it into a rack or something in the oven without messing up the
>> >painted area. I know I don't have an oven that I can hang parts in, so I'd
>> >have to lay them down on the painted surface to bake them. It would smudge
>> >them. When they do it professionally, they are apinted in the oven, never
>> >touched after painting. Then they walk outside and turn on the oven.
>> >
>> >That said, I would love to be able to powder coat at home, but don't think
>> >it would come very good because of the logistics of moving the part and
>> >trying to get it into the oven and baking without touching the painted area.
>> >
>> >Does anyone have any ideas, because I'd still love to buy one if I could
>> >convince myself that it was realistic.
>> >
>> >At 02:03 PM 1/8/98 -0800, you wrote:
>> >>Listers I am sure that none of you have ever had this happen to you
>> >>before, BUT, called Eastwood this A.M. with their brand new catalogue in
>> >>hand, full color cover of home powder-coating system, sir it's on
>> >>"BACK-ORDER", they have not arrived yet, about 2/3 weeks. I had no idea
>> >>Eastwood also sold LBC parts !!
>> >>
>> >>John, blasting is the best & easiest way to prepare a item, but you can
>also just strip it with paint remover or what ever, smaller parts are
>much more expensive to do than larger parts. My local P/C shop will not
>even talk to you about nuts & bolts anymore, to troublesome for him. When
>the minimum charge is $25.00 it sure will pay for it self very quickly,
>the one item that needs to be researched is buying the powder from
>someone other than Eastwood, and I can give you the answer to that on
>Mon.. The Powder Coat trade assoc. is located here in N. Va. and tomorrow
>A.M. I will be on their door step looking for answers, like where can I
>buy material in quantity, not small high price sizes. The main colors are
>gloss black semi-gloss black and silver/gray. Believe me this home use is
>very diffently the way to go and one/tenth the price.Been there done that
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