Powercoating kits..?

[Guest Anonymous]

For the bigger/badder stuff I'll continue to get any powerdercoating done professionally, but for small stuff here and there, anyone try Summit Racing's powercoating kit, as opposed to the usual Eastwood Co products?

Summitracing.com, p/n SUM-01-06100

Matt

[Otis]

Uncle Rick and I -- in establishing our Backyard Restoration operation, saw the prices from those places and fell out of our rocking chairs. So, we simply invested in the Harbor Freight el-cheapo gun, and it does fine on the small stuff. I suppose under some theory, the pricier guns are justified, but thus far, I don't see it -- not for the small stuff, at least. Just the opinion of a couple of cheapskates, however.

We're also going to construct a bigger oven. I can't see paying a couple of grand for a walk-in.

[JohnN]

Spraying the parts looks easy, it wouldn't enhance my marital bliss if I used the kitchen oven to cure the parts.

Thanks!!

John N

[Otis]

When they tore down the house down the street (to create another McMansion), we asked the construction crew to save the oven. They did -- a nice Jenn Air double-oven built in. We welded up a cage from some spare steel stock, put it on some small wheels that we had laying around, and attached an electrical box. Voila, free powder-coating oven.

It works fine for the small stuff. But, it would be better to have a walk-in (like the size of a small one-person sauna). That way, you could construct a cage on wheels, powder everything up, and just wheel it into the oven. Much easier than trying to manipulate hangers and racks.

I'll post a picture in the next couple of days of the frame that we did for a C-30 Chevy pickup, frame-off restoration. The frame, we did in POR15; everything that fit in the oven, we powder coated, and everything in between, we outsourced to the pros.

[uxoman]

I have been using the following Harbor Freight powder-coating gun with fair to good results. I'm still kinda learning. It's not really hard, but it does take practice to get an even coat of powder. It takes longer to set everything up/clean up than doing the actual powder coating. I also made a fan/filter to pull away the excess powder out of an old over the stove hood. I just taped a furnace type filter to it and place the thing behind the item I’m powder coating. Good Lucky.

The gun:

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=42802'>http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=42802

I purchase their powder-coating oven also.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber