The Chopper Compendium

Ok....I'm not a great teacher so take this with a grain of salt....ya might want a shot of tekillya to go with that salt.So the firt thing we'll do is prep the part.I blasted the rim in my cabinet.I made up a jig for it to sit in so It would not come in contact with the grates in the oven.Otherwise you'd have to shot 1 side ....do a partial cure...shot the other side & fully cure.In the jig you shot both sides at the same time.Next I wiped down the rim with denatured alcohol....wear nitrile gloves so you dont get your dirty paw prints on your parts.

love to see some powder coat process always wanted to learn i can paint far from pro but i do good work

I had to make what is called a pregnant oven cause the rim is just a little bigger then the oven.I warmed up the rim(I find this easier & havn't had any problems doing it this way......off to the spray booth

Parts in the jig * hung in my temp booth.It worked better than I thought so now I'll build another problbly out of metal studs.The weight of the rim really put the small diameter pvc to test.I aslo put a box fan in with a furnace filter to draw & capture the overspray.That worked great as you can see in the pic...filter turned black

After its all sprayed it goes in the oven for 15 minutes after the powder flows....& when it comes out you have a nice colored part.I shot the rim in super wet black

And last but not least.....grab yourself a beer.

no primer in powder coat process?

you can use a primer but not neccessary.

Very cool jeff thanks for posting the information on powder coating. Turned out very nice i see, better have two beers hahaha.

cool to see the process broken down. just out of curiosity, where do you get the powder and other supplies?



-dan

Fantastic "how to" post - you may not be a teacher but you should be!!! Very well written and illustrated. Many thanks, that has explained the dark art of powder coating...all I need now is enough room to build a spray booth........

Thanks again Jeff

Maz xx

Thanks for the pictorial. Been wanting to try that myself. What brand powder coat equipment do you use?

Thinkin bout a larger oven sparked my memory. Went looking and refound this site. Kitchen oven burner elements were used in homemade cabinet.

http://powdercoatoven.4t.com/Index.html

budoka wrote: just out of curiosity, where do you get the powder and other supplies?

-dan

my gun & the powder I used for this was bought through Caswellplating.com.Thier forums have all kinds of info about pc & oven building.Definately worth a look.I also get some powder through Columbia coatings.