• Required reading for all forum users!!!

    Welcome!
    Register to access the full functionality of the GSResources forum. Until you register and activate your account you will not have full forum access, nor will you be able to post or reply to messages.

    A note to new registrants...
    All new forum registrations must be activated via email before you have full access to the forum.

    A Special Note about Email accounts!
    DO NOT SIGN UP USING hotmail, outlook, gmx, sbcglobal, att, bellsouth or email.com. They delete our forum signup emails.

    A note to old forum members...
    I receive numerous requests from people who can no longer log in because their accounts were deleted. As mentioned in the forum FAQ, user accounts are deleted if you haven't logged in for the past 6 months. If you can't log in, then create a new forum account. If you don't get an error message, then check your email account for an activation message. If you get a message stating that the email address is already in use, then your account still exists so follow the instructions in the forum FAQ for resetting your password.

    Have you forgotten your password or have a new email address? Then read the forum FAQ for details on how to reset it.

    Any email requests for "can't log in anymore" problems or "lost my password" problems will be deleted. Read the forum FAQ and follow the instructions there - that's what we have one for...

  • Returning Visitors

    If you are a returning visitor who never received your confirmation email, then odds are your email provider is blockinig emails from our server. The only thing that can be done to get around this is you will have to try creating another forum account using an email address from another domain.

    If you are a returning visitor to the forum and can't log in using your old forum name and password but used to be able to then chances are your account is deleted. Purges of the databases are done regularly. You will have to create a new forum account and you should be all set.

Powdercoating carburetors...

tkent02

tkent02

Forum LongTimer
Past Site Supporter
I want to try this. I think the gloss black won't look good on the carb bodies, can't sand in all the nooks and crannies, gloss looks bad without a smooth surface. Don't want to bead blast anything, seems like a clogged up carburetor just waiting to happen.

I'm thinking gloss black tops and bowls, wrinkle black bodies. Just a touch of red on the Mikuni emblem.
What do you guys think?
 
I'm not a fan of that wrinkle finish but having said that more important I think would be to have a contrast between the body and the bowls / tops.

The red mikuni sounds good.

Masking as ever will be the devil.
 
you can safely vapour blast carbs, instead of bead blasting. just wash and blow out well afterwards
 
If they are going to be done apart just remember that all the threaded holes will get filled up to plus the mixture screw holes threads, air jet holes etc etc
 
If you have a sand blasting cabinet why cant you also use it for soda? Seems that way you can have every cranny clean and not have any worries about rinsing and being sure all is good.

OR be sure everything is plugged well and then just sand blast them.
 
Taping off anything you don't want powder coated is gonna be a pain, though I would think the carbs would look great. I was thinking of doing mine that way, just didn't have the $$ to try.

Just a suggestion, if you have some junk carbs laying about, take one and do the prep on it and powder coat it and see how it comes out. Best to lose one junk carb then a whole bank of good ones.
 
A good coater would have no issues with this and they would look great.
 
We definitely will need to see pictures of the process and the finished product.
 
The coater is me, not all that good yet but I'm getting better. Have been learning a few things as I go, like not to do gloss if the surface isn't perfect.

I have plenty of carbs to practice on, both good ones and extra sets. Soda through the blaster might work well, I'll think about it.
Just thinking about the color, and texture. I think some contrast would look better than all the same.
Might do red tops and bowls, and wrinkle black bodies on one set….
 
tkent02 said:
The coater is me, not all that good yet but I'm getting better. Have been learning a few things as I go, like not to do gloss if the surface isn't perfect.

I have plenty of carbs to practice on, both good ones and extra sets. Soda through the blaster might work well, I'll think about it.
Just thinking about the color, and texture. I think some contrast would look better than all the same.
Might do red tops and bowls, and wrinkle black bodies on one set?.
Click to expand...

I really like the wrinkled texture, should look good.
 
DSC01861.jpg


DSC01860.jpg
 
Thanks Tom, as soon as I get float bowl gaskets they are going onto Jennifer, I did them right at the start of the build.
 
If I am not mistaken, those are painted, from what I remember in his thread a while back....

.
 
Yeah, as GK says, they are painted Tom, but I have no doubt you could achieve the same or even better with powder.
 
tkent02 said:
Soda through the blaster might work well, I'll think about it.
Click to expand...
What is soda (as used in this context)? A place I used to work at used liquid CO2 to blast ink off printing presses. Did a good job and left no mess other than the ink residue.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top