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| | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,703 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,703 | Im thinking of having my Aluminum Edlebrock valve covers done in anodized powdercoat, Any thoughts or pics..?
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Tim | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,878 . | | . Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,878 | What's that?
I thought anodizing was the formation of a hard protective aluminum oxide.
And powdercoating was the baking on of a plastic coat applied electrostaticly as a powder.
Grigg | | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 | double duty??  | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,733 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,733 | Grigg is technically correct but I think SW Radial is referring to the aluminum colored finish that some powder coaters offer. I've seen it on some Rods and I sort of like it.
Almost looks like a ceramic coating to me, at least the color I'm familiar with. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 576 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 576 | was at the easyriders show in columbus this year and a powder coater was there,i know what your talking about i agree with 53 moneypit i sortado also.i saw some stock pulleys from a sbc that they powder coated chrome then put a clear over.i 100% fell in love with them ,totaly different look than chrome or billet.lady said about $20.00 a pulley to pull off the look .its something i'm considering.i say if you like it go for itbuild it for you.................dave
1949 Chevrolet 3100 "When this thing hits 88 miles an hour, you're going to see some serious sh%t." -Doc Brown
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,703 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,703 | Sorry Gents I should have been more specific....but ya got what I was meaning, Im looking at the powdercoat that RESEMBLES anodized aluminum but has look all its own.
Tim | | | | | Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,859 Grumpy old guy playing with trucks, cars, and boats | | Grumpy old guy playing with trucks, cars, and boats Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,859 | Anodizing can be clear or opaque. It is a treatment process.
The problems we face today can not be addressed at the same level of intelligence we were at when we created them - Albert Einstein Or with the same level of $ - Me
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 119 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 119 | http://picasaweb.google.com/ChrisAurit/ItSChrisGreenTruck#5276275072569724274Although I ended up going a different route, I did these alternator and p/s brackets with the handy-dandy $99 Eastwood powdercoat kit and an old countertop pizza oven. It was a two layer process, but it ended up looking pretty darn good. I really love the gun; anything I could fit in the oven got powdercoated. There's also an Eastwood forum where people post the pictures of the stuff they've powdercoated at home. It's pretty impressive. | | |
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