Re: [AMC-list] powdercoating, and an intake for sale

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

cool! I'll start shopping while I'm healing up!

Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Davis Martin" <martin-davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rambler AMC, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 10:23:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [AMC-list] powdercoating, and an intake for sale

Mark,
 If you have an oven and a blast cabinet you are 1/2 way there. I would recomend the summit powdercoat system of check ebay for the craftsman kit. They (unlike the eastwood and harbour freight kits) have their own air supply.  Much easier to use. 
 Davis 

--- On Mon, 4/27/09, Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-list] powdercoating, and an intake for sale
To: amundaza@xxxxxxxxx, "Rambler AMC, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, April 27, 2009, 3:19 PM

Thanks!
It's one of those ideas I have had on the back burner for quite some while
now.
I have wanted a polished new styl 4.0 in take on my American for a long time,
love the look of that intake and figure the polished would add that last bit of
sweetness. That's the main reason I have not installed the one I have yet!
It is sanded, smoothed, just needs the final polishing work. I got to thinking a
while ago a "chrome" power coat would be close enough and not need the
upkeep or polishing etc, There are quite few more pieces I would like to do to,
so buying the setup is probably a break even at least. 

  Greg, Davis, How bad was the preliminary stuff you did? Useable or
fubar'd?
Greg, how good does the portable IR heater do in curing the PC? I have a non
contact temp gun to check temps.

 
  If I could get the stuff done locally at a reasonable cost I would do that,
but I can't.  

   Our hose range is ideal, has a digital oven temp setup that is accurate, it
is self cleaning so if can bake its own grease out before use on parts, the top
burners adn controls are pretty much shot! 

   I allready have the nice floor model bolt together blast cab, picked it up
for $140 at a swap meet a few years back.

 As with anything else it will need to wait, 6 more days till surgery, then 6
weeks of restrictions...

If, I come out of this able to work again it iwll be worth it, if not, I will
probably go insane.  

I'll bet many of you are thinking  " too late "....

  I sometimes wonder myself, it will be 3 years on July 15. I have trouble
remembering what it was like to be able to do what I wanted to do without pain.

Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Taylor" <amundaza@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rambler AMC, Nash, Jeep and family"
<amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 1:46:58 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [AMC-list] powdercoating, and an intake for sale

I used the www.eastwoodco.com HOTCOAT kit years back on tons of different
parts.  Blasted them in the yard with the pressurized 100-gallon sand blasting
tank (vertical tube on wheels). Even did my CJ5 frame, using an infrared PROPANE
heater (Eastwood sells an expensive electric infrared heater).
 
The Eastwood HOTCOAT kit is well worth the price ... just get the cheaper gun,
not their professional gun, unless you want to go into business.
 
Also, check the Harbor Freight sales for their blasting cabinet.  Usually on
sale for $199-$220, instead of the usual $299 price.  I picked on up locally
and will be putting it together.  Also picked up NIB HOTCOAT basic kit from
ebay (private seller) with some powder for $60. 
 
You can do this on the cheap, if need be.  Just have to get the parts cleaned
up good before applying the powder.
 
TECH TIP #1:  Once in a while, you will need to TAP the end of the HOTCOAT gun
tip to knock off the build-up of powder there.  If you don't, eventually,
the gun will flick it into your part and you'll get powder globs, once it
bakes.
 
TECH TIP #2:  PRE-BAKE bare metal parts that have been in contact with OIL,
etc.  This will bake the oil out of the pores, so that it doesn't bubble
the powdercoating when that get's baked on.  Clean up the bare, pre-baked
parts, once cooled, with BRAKE cleaner.
 
Last of all, Davis, the intake looks professionally done.  Good job!

Sincerely, 
Greg Taylor :) <>< 
Rochester Hills, MI
1989 Jeep Grand Wagoneer "TRMN8R2"
330-CID AMC Stroker V8

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in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God
does not have the life. - 1 John 5:11-12


--- On Mon, 4/27/09, Victor the Cleaner <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Victor the Cleaner <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-list] powdercoating, and an intake for sale
To: "AMC, Rambler, Nash, Jeep and family"
<amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, April 27, 2009, 12:03 PM

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:48:21PM +0000, Wrambler wrote:

> Details!
> Specifically what/who made the powder coating equipment you used?

Yes, do tell.  My understanding of this stuff is that the powder is
sprayed out of a charged nozzle so that the particles stick to the 
work prior to the baking.  That suggests the application equipment
is on the expensive/elaborate side.

Jonathan

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