Powdercoating.. Anyone know if You can Make a oven????

Hey guys, im looking to start powdercoating a few parts, one of which would be a motorcycle frame, so id need a rather large oven, from what i hear, you need it to be about 350 to bake the powder to the peice, so does anyone know if you can make a oven that large? thanks,

brandon

[ralph]

Brandon, This was posted previously. Found it using a Search.

Mark,
One of the local rodders bought a used electric oven and put it on casters. He rolls it to the apron of his shop entrance to keep down the fumes in his shop.

There is also an excellent on line tutorial.
http://www.buckeyetriumphs.org/techn..._equipment.htm

hey, sorry about not looking good enough i typed in powdercoating, probably should have just wrote powdercoat i think.. thanks alot thuogh,

Brandon

[James(Western Canada)]

Brandon: there was a thread on this around MAr 11 or so, and the link RAlph posted as well as this one were in the thread, sorry I dont have the url for the thread, but a search should bring it up.

http://www.powdercoatoven.4t.com/


HTH
James(Western Canada)

Originally Posted by James(Western Canada)

Brandon: there was a thread on this around MAr 11 or so, and the link RAlph posted as well as this one were in the thread, sorry I dont have the url for the thread, but a search should bring it up.

http://www.powdercoatoven.4t.com/

Hi: That's my site, and since posting that thread, I've had a chance to test the oven a bit. It heats up to 450 in less than 10 minutes for flow out, and then holds at 400 for the cure. Haven't done a frame yet, but have coated and cured a couple of wheels and its worked well so far. This oven is really for occasional use, though. It would need some changes for daily use as it has a few hot spots on the outer surface. Email me if you have any questions: gourdhedd@aol.com

[beat53chevy]

Here's what I did to build a powdercoating oven because a stove is just to small and it works perfect. I went behind an appliance store where they have there appliances they are throwing away and I got the biggest stand up freezer I could find and I got the cleanest stove I could find. The freezer only had plastic on the door so I removed that and tacked a piece of sheet metal on there,I took off the rubber gasket on the door and replaced it with the rope gasket they use on wood stoves and glued it in place with high silicone caulking,I took the stove controls out of the stove and mounted them to the top of the freezer and I put both elements on the bottom of the freezer on the inside only to find out I only needed one element and the whole thing works perfect. I had a whole exhaust system and mufflers in it and a set of 4 wheels at one time. the nice thing is the freezer was already insulted so i didn't have to do anything there, i suppose if you needed bigger you could get a double door refrigerator or weld two freezers together only took a couple of hours to put together and been working perfectly for 2 years.

[Dave1967]

When I was shopping around for a price to get my caterham frame coated I was advised to get it painted in two pack paint for the following reasons.

After blasting any pitting can be prepped out so that the finished piece is smooth.

Two pack is almost as hard wearing as powdercoating.

Any damage can be repaired with a touch up gun with the part on the car.

And most importantly I could do it my self keeping the cost down.

Has anyone else used two pack or advise either way!

Dave

[Peter Miles]

Perhaps its a difference in national vocabularies, perhaps its my non-painting background.

What are you referring to as two pack paint?

[Dave1967]

Two-pack is base colour mixed with a hardener and then thinned for use. It was extensively used in our auto industry and still is especially for re-finishing. It is a very hard wearing paint that requires little finishing after application. It requires a clean air face mask due to the Isocynate content.

Hope this helps to explain what I was refereing to.

I'm led to believe that most of powder coating is now done with this due to finnish and the ability to have unlimited colours and even a colour fade into a different colour.

Dave

I just want make sure but i need a electric oven right?? and also, the only 220v line i have is in a very smallll space, where a stove wouldnt fit, if i do get a electric oven, is there any way to go about making it a 115v line. Thanks, Brandon