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Routy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2280 Winston Oregon Gender:	Powder Coating 04/30/10 at 07:16:20 Lots a bobber/builders out there,.... Anyone try or have good success w/ any of the home type powder coating kits on the market ? You know,...the cheap ones....where I guess you would use your kitchen oven.....when DW leaves for a couple hours ? I know HF has sold these for ages, but I have never heard any feedback on them. Thanks for any replies.
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Re: Powder Coating
Reply #1 - 04/30/10 at 08:16:34

I asked this same ? a couple of months ago & nobody had tried it yet.
I asked on another forum with the same result. Shocked

One of us is going to have to break down & get one. My last trip to H-F 2 weeks ago they were out of stock. Huh

I planned to coat some brackets I made & cure them in the oven. Then depending on the out come, get an old oven from an appliance store for cheap or free & put a plug on it like my welder. Mount a set of wheels on it where I can move it around easily to store it. Cool

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Powder Coating Reply #2 - 04/30/10 at 09:59:29 If someone needed a longer cavity he could get 2 ovens & cut the back out & turn them back to back.
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dasch Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1137	Re: Powder Coating Reply #3 - 04/30/10 at 10:01:17 Or get a cheap quartz room heater. That's what they use anyways.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Powder Coating Reply #4 - 04/30/10 at 10:31:28 What kinda box do they put the part & lamp in?
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dasch Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1137	Re: Powder Coating Reply #5 - 04/30/10 at 11:07:41 None! Part hanging, two or three quartz lamps radiate heat all around it, some cheap contactless temp gauge... That's it in home powdercoating kits.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Powder Coating Reply #6 - 04/30/10 at 14:53:53 That sounds WAY too easy!
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Routy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2280 Winston Oregon Gender:	Re: Powder Coating Reply #7 - 04/30/10 at 19:15:31 Its amazing that no one has tried it. But its also amazing that HF has been selling these seems like forever, and there is not 1 review for it.
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Re: Powder Coating
Reply #8 - 04/30/10 at 19:29:55

question is.. are you going to powder coat enough things for it to actually save you any money over sending it to a powder coater to coat it for you. I mean maybe if your doing a whole bike frame an investment in a system might be worth it, but then you don't have an oven big enough to fit it. are you going to coat more than 100-200 worth of parts?

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dasch Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1137	Re: Powder Coating Reply #9 - 04/30/10 at 20:58:53 In some shops they even use gas burners... Hot air gun should also work. Oven is much better, though. No dust, controlled temp and all.. The only point is to melt the powder without burning it. And kits are cheap, not sure about powder itself. There's good ones and bad ones, probably.
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Reply #10 - 04/30/10 at 21:05:40

Well, since I fabricate a lot of small parts & brackets for my bikes & racecar, the convenience alone would be worth it.
If I was doing something to large to fit in an oven, I would have it done.
The H-F p/c system normally sells for about $60, $48 with a 20% off cuopon. The powder they sell is about $5 a color.
Between time & fuel to take it somewhere to be done, it wouldn't take a lot to make it worth while, PROVIDING it does an acceptable job.

There are quite a few chrome (rusted) parts on the Savage that I would like to clean & p/c instead of paint. I would like to turn it into a 'Minight Edition Savage' with most of the chrome blacked out. Cool

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dasch Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1137	Re: Powder Coating Reply #11 - 04/30/10 at 23:08:43 My guess is the device doesn't matter too much, if you have a clean piece, good quality powder and you got curing process (temp and duration) perfected. And there's tons of info online, shouldn't be that hard.
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Routy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2280 Winston Oregon Gender:	Re: Powder Coating Reply #12 - 04/30/10 at 23:46:53 dasch wrote on 04/30/10 at 23:08:43: My guess is the device doesn't matter too much, if you have a clean piece, good quality powder and you got curing process (temp and duration) perfected. And there's tons of info online, shouldn't be that hard. Thats what I'm thinking.
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miker Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 53 Texas, USA Gender:	Re: Powder Coating Reply #13 - 05/01/10 at 06:06:32 I am having two frames done in the Rhinoliner "Hard Line" product. Preped and coated for $200 ea.. Custom colors available and shouldn't fade from sunlight like powder coating tends to do. Also we are removing all chrome and going with the old school Nickle plating.
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Truckinduc Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 255	Re: Powder Coating Reply #14 - 05/01/10 at 15:57:25 I do lots of it at home. Maybe have 100$ in the system and all the different powders I have. I use an old toaster oven and a full size oven. Works great. A little practice and you can achieve different textures. Ive coated approx. 400$ worth of stuff.
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