Let's see, what can I powdercoat today?

I'd say you created a c-channel made of metal that the numbers were placed on face down. Electrical current flowed through that to the dumbbells and viola!

CDW6212R said:

Do the handles come apart?

They were set on the numbers, which look like bare metal. Otherwise, a sharp pointed support was used, leaving no hook marks, just tiny holes.

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Ding ding!
I traced around the bottom sides on a piece of plywood.

4 screws were driven through the sheet of plywood inside the lines. I made 2, one for each dumbbell.

I now have 4 sharp points. It sets secure, and, my ground clipped to one of the screws.

Whew, thank you and I should have stopped then with the computer.

Rant; I spent over an hour with Sears, a single item online order, and five phone calls. That shop your way rewards crap sucks. I didn't get the discount points, and they would not cancel the order. Seven people spoken to, the last being a supervisor, I told her to get the order canceled and call me back. No call yet, and I reordered the item(Sears 950 jumping box), with the points discount, plus the "new" points from the first order. I expect them to tell e that they will charge me for the "new" points, and not award me those for the new order($10 lost). End cost, about $56 for the $120 item, on sale today only for $70. The time spent on the phone, priceless.

Just some little stuff today

26" and it literally, I mean for real it sliced my thumb when I was scrubbing it! I cooked out the DNA

Very nice, I like those hinges.

Turdle, pm sent to you.

Is there a little screw hole on the end so you can drop in a small screw and hang from that?

edit...oops...I was stuck on the bottom of the last page, still looking at the weights....sorry guys.

Just wondering... have u ever powder coated a BBQ grill? would love for my grill to match my Eddie Bauer.

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traveler said:

Just wondering... have u ever powder coated a BBQ grill? would love for my grill to match my Eddie Bauer.

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Hi Michael.

It would look good until you used it.

One flare up would discolor it if not burn off completely. I don't think I would even trust a high temperature powdercoat for that.
In the last couple years I have seen grills with color on them but the lid often discolors from the original shade. I'm not sold on anything for a grill other than stove black or stainless.

I'm not sure what Weber does with their grills, it seems to last a while. I assume it is some kind of porcelain enamel.

Yea.. I figured that would be the case... I've been considering all kinds of options, high temp engine paint, brake paint, powdercoating... but I'll probably just let it go till I can't stand it anymore then buy a new one...

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Some cast iron tractor seat stool thingys before



Gotta take them apart



The castings were rough





So I cleaned em up







Then they were blasted clean to bare metal


After epoxy primer powdercoat, the seats and bases got 2 coats of "empire copper vein" and a coat of "clear vision"



sorry for the dust in this picture-pedestals are "argento" with "casper clear" flat top coat

Those look awesome!!! Guess what? Finally washed the Explorer the other day and the easiest part was cleaning the WHEELS!!!! THANK YOU AGAIN!!!

Limited02 said:

Those look awesome!!! Guess what? Finally washed the Explorer the other day and the easiest part was cleaning the WHEELS!!!! THANK YOU AGAIN!!!

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Thank you again!

Take a look at the TOTM contest I nominated you

Nice looking seats!

Cool Jon, much better than the bare metal.

They came out very nice!

Lots of hard work that paid off again. Nice job!

Turdle said:

I would like to have one with a top load clam shell configuration, and 2 work stations for reach ( sets of gloves) using the pot blaster as power. With a conventional funnel design, the media could be reclaimed and put back into the pot blaster easily. A pot blaster has a lot more force than the siphon feed blast cabinet, so I would just plumb the pot hose into the larger cabinet.



If I could just find a spot to place it.

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Sounds like you don't have the space but these guys are worth a look.

http://www.wheelabratorgroup.com/us/sites/wheelabrator/content/wheelabrator_home.aspx

We have a huge rotary table machine here at the facility I work at. It cleaned a 5.0 Oil pan in 45 seconds with no damage. Set the timer and let it go.

Since you seem to be doing larger and larger parts they may have something to fit your needs.

Warrior Shackles burned off and blasted



Since these are going to Canada,

Epoxy primer powder coat baked in



Then a coat of color, Mercury Blue ( Epoxy Polyurethane hybrid) and another bake



I then flipped them to expose the hook marks and added a good coat of Clear vision top coat. You can see the towel fuzz in the reflection



There ya have it Simon. I did everything I can do to prevent rusting.