Harbor Freight powdercoat system

[Guest]

About a year ago I saw a dirt cheap powder coat system in Harbor Freight, and bought it. Finally got around to using it..... This thing is cool. Works great. I bought 16 different colors of powder off of EBay for a total of $46 including freight, and I've been coating all kinds of things that are laying around the shop. I'm using a laboratory sample drying oven that is 4'x4' to bake the parts.(cost me $25 at a industrial auction) but a regular electric range or even a pizza oven would work. so far my total investment is just over a hundred bucks. My last trip to the coater was three times that.
I found that sand or glass bead blasting the parts is essential if you want to make the coating stick. Other than that it's pretty strait forward. just follow the flow out and cure times that come with each powder. Most of the parts that I've done I could not rattle can as cheap as the powder costs.

[jonesti]

Awesome!! Post some pics!

[Busafied]

Awesome!! Post some pics!

what he said

Peeking peoples intrest w/o pics is just wrong LOL:-D

[Dink]

This thread is useless without pics.:-D

Dink

[madjack57754]

OK I get it. Pictures coming in the next day or so. All I've done is car parts so far

[madjack57754]

Here are a few parts that I coated for '66 A/C Cobra. I'll be doing a few more this weekend

[madjack57754]

Close up of the hood hinges

[madjack57754]

try this again Close up of the hood hinges

[Planecrazy]

Pics are a bit small, Jack, but you're moving in the right direction!

Regards, \\/

[madjack57754]

I'm an old guy... Takes me a while to figure this out

[Nessism]

Sign up for photobucket.com and load all your photos there. After they are loaded you can attach them here and they will be viewable, and much larger.

BTW, thanks for the feedback. \\/

[Mike McNaney]

I went to Harbor freight and used their search feature. I didnt find the powder coat system. Maybe its been dropped?

[Mike_H]

no it's still there. I looked too. Gotta look under the paint spraying supplies. I think it was about a 100 bucks for the kit.

[Mike McNaney]

Good. I'll look again. Might be just what I need for a few parts on my bikes.
Thanks for looking past my nose

[LeeGS550E]

I wanted to revive this old thread, as I've just purchased this system. I have a decent blasting cabinet at home, but it is currently loaded with glass beads. I read somewhere that you must use sand or walnuts for prep for powder coat. Something about the glass beads making too smooth of a surface for the powder. Does anyone know about this?

Madjack, you said you were using glass beads to blast. How is the durability of the powder coating you have done so far? Can you describe your prep process and the results you have achieved?