Got bored today and decided I wanted to learn to powder coat.
Went out and got one of these from Sears.


Got some spare lugs to practice on. $150

Only color they had at Sears. bronze/dark gold. $6

Sprayed them and then into the oven. The gun works like a weak hair dryer and sprinkles the powder on.

Fresh out of the oven. $29 for oven.


Did some 5mm spacers as well.

Coated and non coated.

Applying clearcoat in the next couple of days.

Came out more bronze than gold, was easier than painting and no smell. Going to try larger items later on, my spare wheels will be next.


Modified by 24boosted at 4:40 PM 2/12/2007

 

Thats good son! Keep me postD' yeah?

 

Nice work!

 

It looks like you need to hold the gun a little further away and spray lighter coats. The first lug nut looks a bit caked-on, like overspray. This happened to me the first, like 2 times, before I started spraying further away. Very good job though. Powdercoating material can be expensive but it's good to see people trying different things. Can't wait to see some of your other work.

 

Yah Im still getting used to the thing. It splatters out sometimes or too little comes out.
Got any of your own to share skittle06?

 

How much was the kit and powder? $160.00 . I have seen some on ebay and was interested in trying it out.

 

http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr...e=Yes

Sears powder gun and about 7-20 bucks for the powder from ebay.

 

awesome.. hopefully you get it down
I'm sure if you do cool stuff you can have it pay for itself ;]

 

How's the quality? Like professional powder coating?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 24boosted &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Yah Im still getting used to the thing. It splatters out sometimes or too little comes out.
Got any of your own to share skittle06? </TD></TR></TABLE>

Nothing recent, but I'm hoping to do my valve cover, when I get back home. I should have that up for you this week sometime.

 

doesnt professional powdercoating bake at astronomical temps? like 800 degrees or such, thats why they always say no aluminum or low melt point metals.

 

Now you just need to figure out how to fit a wheel or valve cover in that easy-bake oven!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by TRE_ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Now you just need to figure out how to fit a wheel or valve cover in that easy-bake oven! </TD></TR></TABLE>

hahahah

maybe these will fit

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Demonis &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">doesnt professional powdercoating bake at astronomical temps? like 800 degrees or such, thats why they always say no aluminum or low melt point metals.</TD></TR></TABLE>

It depends on who you go to. You really only need less than 500 degrees unless you're doing a very large part or multiple pieces. I think heating temp for something like a valve cover is like 300-350 degrees or something.

 

wow.. altelast u can do all ur little parts in there. that looks good

 

that looks pretty good, thumbs up for having the ***** to try it.

 

So can I assume, that if your going to do your current stock rims, you would need to sand blast the current powder coating off, before you could powder coat again?

Just interested.

 

My friend has an old electric stove in the garage I can use for larger projects, not to meantion colleges have large industrial ovens.

Someone else shoved their wheel in their home oven. Here's a post from "the other site." Sickyute's work.


Heres the link: http://www.8thcivic.com/forums...kyute

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by skittle06 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">It depends on who you go to. You really only need less than 500 degrees unless you're doing a very large part or multiple pieces. I think heating temp for something like a valve cover is like 300-350 degrees or something.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Varies on the powder, average is 300-450 for 5-10 minutes.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Hellzcivic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">So can I assume, that if your going to do your current stock rims, you would need to sand blast the current powder coating off, before you could powder coat again?

Just interested.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Aircraft paint remover will strip away all of the paint. Can be found at hardware stores.

 

thats some tight ****....... im gunna go pick one of those up.