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Old 02-25-2010, 09:26 AM
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Anybody do this to any of their parts? Sears sells a special cup for application, and the powder. It is really inexpensive! Just curious if anybody has tried this, and if it turned out good or not. Was it hard to do?
 
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Nevermind the Sears stuff, this seems like the real deal...

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=94244

Still, anybody actually done this?
 
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No, but it has been posted in here before about not using the same oven you cook with.
 
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that's pretty cool, i might look into this since i've been buying brackets at home depot haha
 
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I have used a kit like the one from Harbor Freight on some parts for a dirtbike. The kit works great but you will need a oven to do this with. The powder coat will destroy your oven and you dont want to cook with it if you have powder coated in it before. I dont understand the cup from craftsman. Is it a measuring cup? Powder coating uses electronic charge to make the powder attract to the metal, with out this it wont work.
 
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Use an electric oven.
 
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Eastwood Co. also has a powdercoating system.
I myself have not used it but had a friend who did and it worked great.
He powdercoated just about anything that would fit in the oven, brackets, small parts, wheels.
Pretty good results and definitely DO NOT USE your home oven!!

http://search.eastwood.com/search?as...&p=Q&ts=custom
 
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For brackets and such you can use a toaster oven. Thrift store maybe?
 
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My cousin has the harbor freight kit and uses a large toaster oven. The results are awesome.
 


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