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ok i'm in the shop today with john sloan from the eastward company appropriate
John good to see a man great to be here Dennis you guys have been making
specialty tools and coatings and supplies to the hobby for ever
all over 25 years but the coolest thing you guys come up with you did so about
dunno seven years ago so is that is the hot code system basically the the home
hobbyist powder coating system
yeah it's a product that i'm very excited about and was very trying to
work with the guy in R&D on and it's a great product for the first time the
home enthusiasts has a means to powdercoat parts with professional
results right at home and with powder coating is so much more durable than
painting it's so much more environmentally friendly and I mean
historically uh it was commercial applications or you know professionally
done now you can do it in the you know the privacy of your own shop pressure
absolutely let's talk about the process of of of powder coating because it's
really it's it's it's it's attaching a dry pigment to our metal surface through
the magic of electrostatic attraction right that's right as the powder flows
through the nozzle the gun it's actually charged with about 10,000 volts and the
part that you're coding is actually grounded so that just sticks
it's very much attracted to that groundwater was so it's so let's powder
coating pics waisay not cover
I think that's how great they are so first of all we got to get that baby
clean as with any painting or powder coating it's got to be clean so you like
sand blast or liquid a chemical stripper one whatever whatever it takes to get
down to clean bare-metal you want that to be free of any grease wax rust any
other coding that might be on the penis can be and anyway I'm gonna hit it with
a kind of a pre paint a painting prep will get rid of any residual grease oil
soap and wax that might be on there so I'm going to then I'm gonna fill up my
my gun might my reservoir here about what the third over half full and I'm
gonna hook that gun up to compressor and what kind of pressure very little
actually 528 psi is all you really need
so just kind of walking on is something that's right you're not looking for the
density of material coming through the end of this gun that you would with a
liquid coating guy so I'm going to put the piece then on a on a rack and the
key of course dennis is growing and either grounding Iraq or grounding the
the piece itself are directly and then i'm going to apply the the powder kind
of nice and evenly is it is it mean it it seems to me like it's actually you
know to be as is critical in any application it's much easier to apply
them liquid coatings there's no fear of creating a drip or a run
no dry spray no overspray you merely need to coat the part until you can no
longer see the base metal showing ok and it's probably a little bit self-limiting
after a while you just don't
it is it's it's almost impossible to apply too much powder then the other
great thing is unlike overspray with with with liquid paints which stick your
floor
I can sweep this residue up the overspray if you will just pitch it
that's another big plus the cleanup is so much easier because there's no
hazardous waste there's no solvents to can't be concerned about
so then then I'm gonna bake this baby and in just a moment probably not the
one in your kitchen but but in essence just a regular on right that's right a
lot of our customers use an oven in their garage environment and powder coat
things up to the size of wheels and intake manifolds so I i bake it at what
temperature typically 400 degrees Fahrenheit and and for how long 20
minutes after flow out of my float you mean I put that in there i get this
dusty part powder-coated part but over time you'll see that turn to a nice
Sheen nice glossy wetlook almost that's right yeah it transitions from that dry
dust look to a to a wet look and then add twenty minutes to that you have a
completely could hold on going over the holidays perhaps bring sauce and slowly
right that's right the whole process is less than an hour and as soon as the
part is cool enough to handle you can bolt it back in place off you go
so so this is a this is the rate you know you know
creative colors probably how many colors you supply Oh over 50 mile and and this
is the whole this is a whole shooting match so to speak with right here pretty
much write the gun that's right and uh my reservoir air hook up this is the
magic box that's the magic power control right there that control convert your AC
current into the 10,000 volts that you did you need to make it stick and I've
got my grounding clip right here right to connect directly to the part now
these come with it this is probably important this is to keep this from
getting into threads and and that's something you really don't want to do
you really want to prevent powder from ending up on critical tolerance surfaces
like thread boltholes gasket surfaces so you need to protect those either
it sticks so good it's take so it's a real tough job to remove it so very
sighs stoppers for the the female threads and this is a high temp masking
tape I can ask all threads or other surfaces I don't want to the code that's
right what's real nice about that tape is it doesn't leave a residue evil so so
he's a part clean little bit of hanging wire use that wire to hang the parts for
coding or curing so with this little handy-dandy kit i can have a you know
professional powder coating finish on just about anything I want
that's right it's a beautiful thing and very durable and it is if you're
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