How does Powdercoating Work?
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I just wanted to expand my refinishing abilities and was curious who can help me understand the powder coating process. Can I do this fairly easily at the shop? how does prep differ & what products should I look at. :cheers
Jimmo, All you need is a sand blaster , an old electric oven, and a powder coating gun and some powder. You just have to get the metal nice and clean, hang it up and attach the electrode and dust it with the powder coat gun. Then you careful hang the part in the preheated oven for fifteen minutes, remove and let it cool. Of coure bigger parts will require a bigger oven, which you can build if you want to go thru that expense. You can buy powder coat guns and everything you need at harbor freight or on ebay. Good luck. It is a lot of fun. Used oven, small sandblast cabinet and gun and everything is la little more than a couple of hundred dollars. Don’t use the wifes oven!
brad is pretty much right on and waht he said is a great way to start out. i will say this though. its a coating and just like anything in the coatings industry to do it right professionally requires good equiptment and there is a learning curve. not as big as paint but there is one. doing small parts for yourself is one thing but when you are starting to do it professionally its another. the cheapo guns from eastwood and harbor freight are fine for a beginner just as their spray guns are. if you start getting calls where you need to do real nice stuff then that type of equiptment wont cut it. a detailer friend of mine started advertising doing wheels as a service for his customers with curb scuffs, stuff like that. 9mos later he is up to his $5g powdercoat gun, 2 large ovens, one is walk in. does 2-4 sets of wheels a day along with just about any other thing you can imagine. has commercial accounts doing parts for manufacturing companies. it has snowballed like crazy in a short amount of time!! i would never have guessed there was such a high demand.
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