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Spizz:
I too have the powdercoating bug, so much so that I bought the home kit and do all my own stuff. See my post in the AF forum for a few examples so far. Its super easy to do.

Nairns_Two_50K:

--- Quote from: Spizz on January 30, 2011, 12:40:02 AM ---I too have the powdercoating bug, so much so that I bought the home kit and do all my own stuff. See my post in the AF forum for a few examples so far. Its super easy to do.

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   Hey spizz, that blue looks great!  Is that the anodized blue? My good friend and I started a small time operation out of our garages doing powder coating.  In my garage I do majority of the prep by sandblasting and then 12 doors down at his house we have a 4x4x6 walk in powder oven and a spray both. We stay very busy as I have been going crazy on my quad, my kx, sons dirtbike, and building his banshee frame up piece by piece. I am one of those people that gets instant gradafaction so watching the parts come out of the oven is a great feeling.  We do parts on the side for a few people just to keep our oven time cost down.

Spizz:
That is a huge oven for a home operation. The colors used are silver base, transluscent blue, then clear over the top. I`ve found transluscents to not be very durable without clearing over them.
My biggest problem is keeping myself from going overboard and doing too much on my bikes. If I have a rattle can in the garage, I just can`t control myself and will not set it down until its empty. My vice and shop press and stuff probably has 300 coats of paint on it in the last 20 years.
I`m gonna try wrinkle finish black on the engine covers and head/cylinder soon.

Nairns_Two_50K:

--- Quote from: Spizz on January 30, 2011, 01:21:22 AM ---That is a huge oven for a home operation. The colors used are silver base, transluscent blue, then clear over the top. I`ve found transluscents to not be very durable without clearing over them.
My biggest problem is keeping myself from going overboard and doing too much on my bikes. If I have a rattle can in the garage, I just can`t control myself and will not set it down until its empty. My vice and shop press and stuff probably has 300 coats of paint on it in the last 20 years.
I`m gonna try wrinkle finish black on the engine covers and head/cylinder soon.

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   The wrinkle finish is really nice. It looks like a rhino liner finish that is very simular to the utility quad racks but way more durable. I will be doing my racks on my quads very soon. Sand blasting can be a pain but we recently found an acid dipper local and affordable so we always have the big stuff prepped from them. We are currently working on a 20 inch set of mustang steeda rims. We are using super durable wet black. That has got to be one of my favorites. Silver vein is really awesome too.  Does your oven run on 110 or 220?  Where do you buy your powder from? We use Eastwood sometimes but mostly powder buy the pound.Take care

Spizz:
8 years ago when I started I had a 220 oven and did lots of car parts as I was in a hotrodding phase. Long ago I scrapped the oven and only use a small toaster oven as most of my bike parts fit ok. I too buy most of my stuff from Eastwood, but have seen quite a few different colors on ebay, but to this point haven`t tried them. Any special steps I should take when baking the wrinkle finish?

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