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DIY powder coating.
Some of you may know that I'm restoring a little old Yamaha TW 200. Well, lots of the parts are rusty and beat up and after doing a little research, I found that it's fairly simple to powder coat at home with very little invested.
On Friday, I picked up the last thing I needed to give this a go... a sandblast cabinet (Craigslist find). This antique is homemade but it works amazingly well and can fit semi-large items, unlike many of the bench top models.
Turned these...
Into...
Bare metal very quickly!
Now into the cardboard box for application of high voltage powder with $60 Eastwood powder coating gun. You can get your powder on E-Bay as well. It looks gray, but it's semi-gloss black. There are zillions of colors available.
Into the free Craigslist oven (cracked glass top) for 25 minutes at 400 degrees.
Brackets ready for another 20 years of dirt roads.
Nice curves!
Honestly, this was about $150 invested in tools including the sandblaster, free oven and Eastwood Hot Coat powder coating gun from eBay. Compressor only needs 20PSI so your avg. shop compressor is just fine.
The process is also pretty stupid-proof. I highly recommend it if you have the need and the space!
BIG THANK YOU Goes out to Catamount for this info. Resurrected from the old site so all can see just how easy this can be done on a small budget.
Here is a great DIY site that helps you along the way, and has a couple videos to watch.
http://powderperfect.com/diy.asp
Tracy
Goldenhtr
Some of you may know that I'm restoring a little old Yamaha TW 200. Well, lots of the parts are rusty and beat up and after doing a little research, I found that it's fairly simple to powder coat at home with very little invested.
On Friday, I picked up the last thing I needed to give this a go... a sandblast cabinet (Craigslist find). This antique is homemade but it works amazingly well and can fit semi-large items, unlike many of the bench top models.

Turned these...

Into...

Bare metal very quickly!

Now into the cardboard box for application of high voltage powder with $60 Eastwood powder coating gun. You can get your powder on E-Bay as well. It looks gray, but it's semi-gloss black. There are zillions of colors available.

Into the free Craigslist oven (cracked glass top) for 25 minutes at 400 degrees.

Brackets ready for another 20 years of dirt roads.

Nice curves!

Honestly, this was about $150 invested in tools including the sandblaster, free oven and Eastwood Hot Coat powder coating gun from eBay. Compressor only needs 20PSI so your avg. shop compressor is just fine.
The process is also pretty stupid-proof. I highly recommend it if you have the need and the space!
BIG THANK YOU Goes out to Catamount for this info. Resurrected from the old site so all can see just how easy this can be done on a small budget.
Here is a great DIY site that helps you along the way, and has a couple videos to watch.
http://powderperfect.com/diy.asp
Tracy
Goldenhtr