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Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:31 pm
by cargodz
Lee will be able to media blast them and get them lookin as nice as possible... black shows the most, but if they're in as good a shape as they seem from the pics they'll turn out nice.
By the way, he currently has 2 ovens there... A small for lil stuff under 18" and one that you could fit a bike frame in... And he's been talking about building one large enough to put an entire car frame in
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:00 pm
by street freakz
Ryan from Ohio wrote:Well if you have a junky oven or know of anyone with a junker you could toss outside, you could do these yourself.
The guns only like $50 or so from Harbor Freight and powder there is cheap also. Works pretty much as good/same as the brand name gun.
its not that easy, especially if you have never coated before.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:07 pm
by street freakz
cheapaudio wrote:i just bought some 17 inch rims, for my durango,, real cheap.. $50. anybody kno a place here in ohio where i can have them dipped and powder coated for a good price? ill get some pics of them tomorrow.
car godz sent me a link for the pics of the wheels. they are in pretty bad shape, nothing i cant fix. the price will be slightly higher than normal because of the defects that must be corrected before they are coated, and some of the defects will still remain depending of the shape the pits are in. all 4 wheels powder coated in mirror black. $150
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:08 pm
by street freakz
NorthQuad wrote:I have a set 16x9.5 wide Eagle? or American Racing? rims I want powder coated. I had them on my F-150 for about 1000km's. They're just sitting in the garage now. I also have some 16x10 wide American Racing that I want powder coated. They're on the F-150 right now. Salt got to the finishes on both sets. Both (were) polished aluminum. More like a cloudy grey now.
$100 per set of 4
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:12 pm
by cheapaudio
cool,, ill give ya a call on monday,, about droppin them off or what not... im gettin my alt this weekend.. ill have the money for the powder coat next friday the, 25th..
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:28 pm
by street freakz
no problem.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:31 pm
by street freakz
what part of ohio are you in?
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:22 am
by cargodz
How's that for service... I get a hold of Lee and he's right here on the board to answer questions
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:33 am
by Ryan from Ohio
street freakz wrote:its not that easy, especially if you have never coated before.
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Its not a hard process at all if you have the equipment and a little patience.
I never did it before but was going to town on my motorcycle after about 2 minutes of reading instructions.
Sandblast, glass bead blast or walnut shell blast your items clean.
Make sure powder coat gun is clean/clear of previous powder.
Hook electrode onto prat, get powder in gun. Evenly/nicely coat/fog your part. If you mess up, undo the electrode, tap the part- powder falls off, try again.
Then the baking. Thats my favorite part. Its a bit stinky
Trouble is most people dont have ovens.
And BTW, for $150 for all4 rims its not worth buying the gun/powder to mess with. At that price, let it be done professionally.
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:53 am
by cargodz
Ryan from Ohio wrote:?
And BTW, for $150 for all4 rims its not worth buying the gun/powder to mess with. At that price, let it be done professionally.
And even though I love Harbor Freight... They have very cheaply made powder guns... I had a buddy that picked one up and returned it the same weekend... spat and sputtered like crazy.
And see I told ya he'd give ya a great price
He just likes pissin off the guys at aesthetic finishers (his competition)... they start at $100 bucks a wheel.