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Scott, I think you and I had discussed this, but I feel like you need to add a simple powder coating setup to your armamentarium. It's not very expensive, pretty easy, and for things like the pulleys I do think that it provides a more durable coating. Plus it's just sort of fun. Just a thought.
 
That’s the way to go. Vapor hone is great for aluminum parts, but with my setup I also have the ability to dry blast and it is helpful on old rusty parts to do that. A cyclone separator for the dust is important.
 
e9Leveque said:
Scott, I think you and I had discussed this, but I feel like you need to add a simple powder coating setup to your armamentarium. It's not very expensive, pretty easy, and for things like the pulleys I do think that it provides a more durable coating. Plus it's just sort of fun. Just a thought.
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Not a bad idea. If I do this I'll get a small oven. I really don't want to crowd my shop with an old stove... But you are right, for small stuff that would beat a 2 hour round trip drive to the powder coaters
 
ScottAndrews said:
Not a bad idea. If I do this I'll get a small oven. I really don't want to crowd my shop with an old stove... But you are right, for small stuff that would beat a 2 hour round trip drive to the powder coaters
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Yes, Eastwood's simple powder coater works well, their toaster oven is pretty nice and worth the slight cost over a standard toaster oven mainly because it has convection and a top and bottom heating element and is pretty sizable. I also picked up a semi-cheap ($120?) infrared heat lamp element off of Amazon designed to do larger pieces, you just have to do parts in sections. For your brake protection pieces, for example, would do front side for the 20 minutes at temp and then the rear. Simple enough.
 
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