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Anyone ever used one of those powder coatong systems from Eastwood? I want to powder coat some parts with that smoke chrome color they offer. We have a place that dose it pretty cheep but cant seem to convience them there is such a color. Would really like to black chrome the bumper and grill bars cant fand anyone to do it so powder coating is my next option. Courious to know how well it works? Thanks!

You can only do pieces small enough that fit in your oven.

[ 01-14-2002: Message edited by: Tony M ]

Make sure you do it when SWMBO is gone for a while. They don't seem to understand.
Dennis

I have one of those Hot coat systems. It works pretty well. My oven is pretty small. I think I could get a wheel in it. You can't use your house oven. Something about contamination and bad smells. It really does stink when you cook it. With out fresh air I start to get sick. I put the oven out on the driveway. I have only used the black and simulated chrome. The black works well and easy to do. The chrome is hard to make look right. It comes out of the oven real nice and shiny, but you have to clear coat it or it will fade out. A lot of the colors you have to clear coat. Anyway, the clear always puts a yellow tint on the parts. Book says temp was to high. I did all of the door handles and knob on our truck. It will probably hold up better than paint, but is kind of a pain to get it all set up. Cleans up easy enough, just blow it out the door. One can of powder goes pretty far, some thing like 3 big cans of rattle can. I reuse what falls on the plastic. Just filter it with a paint filter back to the can. I don't think I could recommend buying one. You would need a big oven or infrared heat to cook a bumper. It has to be 400* for 20 minutes and thats after it has liquified. Joe

I also have one of those systems with the Infrared heat lamp and I think it works good. The almost chrome comes out like the spray can. It doesn't look exactly like chrome cuz its paint but not to bad. I don't have an oven so all mine uses the heat lamp. It takes longer to do the larger parts but they come out nice.

If you use the heat lamp, does it still flow evenly? I would think that since your heating only parts of something big at once that it would only flow certain parts and make it not look good.

After you use the heat lamp you can't tell the difference from a part done all at once. It blends nicely. The powder does not flow it melts and stays where its at. You don't get any runs.

I found a place in town that will clean and blast my 2 running boards (and radiator support) and powder coat them all for approx $120. I am considering cleaning up my inner fenders and trying them as well. Are there any major cons to this? Also, how in the hell did those guys in Norwood Ohio in (late)1952 staple the welting to those inner fenders?

Terry, if you are going to have a few things done its best to round up everything that you might conceivably want powdercoated and take it all in at the same time. Powdercoaters really work on a volume basis, and they prefer to do as much as possible at the same time. Powdercoaters typically do runs of one type of color during each day of the week. For example, they probably do two days of black, one day of white, one day of red, etc. So, if you want a lot of stuff black, they will give you a volume discount if you bring in a whole bunch of things that you want powdercoated black. If you can get your buddies together who need a few pieces done, they can help you with the cost and the powdercoater won't charge much more overall.

Vaughn, Thanks for the info. You are correct and I have been collecting everthing I can find to powder coat (as well as informing my pards). I have some time since he will be doing semi-gloss black in about a week. I have seen their work and I feel confident about the quality.
Cheers