Powdercoating

[bman200x]

Has anyone ever powdercoated their own stuff? There was an article in ATV Sport about doing it yourself, but I don't know if its as easy as they make it sound. Any help would be awsome:headbang:

[mywifeknowseverythin]

Its Easy,,,,But it is Messy!!!!! Also,,,Dont Use a Gas oven:chuckle:

I have a Brand new Powdercoating Kit....Up for sale!!!!
100 bucks shipped:thumbsup:

Its just easier for me to drop my stuff off and have someone else clean up the mess:D

[Xowner]

if he isnt intrested pm me some details on it but give him frist shot

[bman200x]

Go ahead and give it him, I'm still a little skeptical, and I don't have much of a shop

[mywifeknowseverythin]

PM Sent:thumbsup:

[350Xccelerator]

does powdercoating do well on pipes? can it stand the heat?

[Xowner]

still intrested sry i never got back to you been having comp probs

[off roader 460]

Ok, I will give you some tips from my personal powder coating adventures. My buddy has a big oven, like 8 by 10 so I just give him some money to use it whenever I want. oh and it is actually a powder coating oven. For the prep work we just sand blast everything to make sure all the paint is off. You need to make sure you get ALL of the paint off. Some spots are real hard to get to but if you get the majority of the paint off you will be all good. After you get the paint off wipe down with laquer thinner or whatever to get all of the grease, oil, sand particles, and just all left over residues that may be left on the part. After you do that I always put on some rubber gloves just so i dont get any oil from my skin on the parts. you then need to plug up all the bolt holes. Actually I am not to sure if you really have to do that but I don't want to run a tap through all of the bolt holes before i can put the item together. I use tin foil and just make a little ball or whatever and push it int to the bolt holes. Worked fine so far. then you need to string up your part with wire. We use copper wire. You need to hang it with wire f and if the two pieces of wire aren't connected together from what ever they are hanging from you need to do so. You use the wire to conduct electricity because some places are hard to get to and the gun will have like a button or smothing that you push of flip a switch and the powder is given a charge and you have a ground hooked to the wire and this helps the powder get to all the places. Basically that acts like a magnet. After you get EVERYTHING covered you can bake it. I only capitalized everything because if you miss a spot it will most likely give the powder a place to start to chip at. You then bake it for however long the powder says. After the first baking you let the part cool down and the bake it again at a different temp. It is VERY MESSY. It isn't very hard to clean up but I would put some plastic down or over things that are important to keep clean. For small parts like foot pegs and brackets and crap all you need is a regular electric oven. You also need to hang the part in the oven so keep that in mind while you are working. We have had a few problems with stuff not fitting in the oven as well as we had planned. And you need to be really careful not to smudge off the powder when moving the parts around before you bake them. Oh and xowner you can get hi temp powder coating for exhaust pipes. I have never used it. So far all parts that we have coated have held up geat. And we ride stuff pretty darn hard. We do alot of our dirt bike frames and stuff like that. it has proven very durable. Hope thais helped you out and boy was that a long post!!!