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Since falling on hard times ive been trying to sell my whole powder coating setup. My uncle has had it over his house and trying to get it sold from his autobody shop, but last night he said he needed the room and droped it back at my house. So i had a 87 Dyno that has been siting in my garage and had nothing better so i said what the hell i might as well give it some life. Ive powder coated my Auburn Dayglow pink and a 94 Dyno Air yellow , but its a huge pain because it has to be hanging perfect in the oven. Sometimes the powder doesent cover complete cause there isnt enough juice going the frame.
This time i nailed it because i used two ground boxes and gave the frame alot more juice running through it. The process was easy the powder clinged perfect to the frame and it bounded even. You will see in the pics that i leave the bearing cups in the frame that is to have metal on the frame to hook the ground wires to and comes in handy for the oven process. I think this Detour came out great and its not a color Detour you see often at all.
Iam gona have to think long and hard about geting rid of this powder coating setup. Ive made alot of mistakes in my life and i dont this one to go into that big pile of $crew-ups. I never try selling powder coating because iam a million miles away from C4-labs and i see all the stuff lou went through so thats why i only powder local or for my own projects. Please dont bash me to death on these pics thanks

BEFORE EVER STARTING

TRYING TO SEE WHAT ROOM TO WORK WITH IN THE OVEN AND THE BEST WAY TO BAKE

IN THE PROCESS OF STRIPING

DROPS CAME GREAT WITHOUT ANY GRAIN LIKE FINISH
NOW ADD SOME SPARE DECALS THAT I HAD FROM ULTRAHIVE

TIME TO LOG OFF AND GO CLEAN UP THE MESS OR MY WIFES GONA KILL ME WHEN SHE GETS OFF OF WORK

Tonight I Powder Coated the bars and post then smacked some decals. the bars and post came great with no clumping and they are all smoth with no grit like feeling , and i didnt go thick on the lower end of the post, so it could slide in the frame without the powder geting teared up. here is a new pic.

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h20-50 · 2012-06-28 2:05pm

Looks like my pro compe kinda, just darker and without the candy finish. I think green looks awesome on these 87's!

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s0nnyv123 · 2012-06-28 2:13pm

Thanks for sharing the pictures. I now see what you have to go through to powder coat a frame and fork.

harleygrant · 2012-06-28 2:44pm

I think you did a great job.

kilrgt · 2012-06-28 3:17pm

it looks good to me, I hope you didn't put it on to thick! One question why didnt you take out the cups????

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zero07 · 2012-06-28 3:27pm

He mentions why up top... he says its for ground wires while coating and come in handy for oven process. Looks great btw!

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greenvenom15 · 2012-06-28 3:53pm

Thanks alot guys and i was shocked with yhat pro compe its cool.
The powder didnt go on thick at all. In the past i wouldnt have enough curent going through the frame that would cause the powder to go on thicker in some areas because there was more curent on one side of the frame, and that sucked because i had to strip the whole frame and start all over again. Now that i had two ground wires on this frame the powder went on easy and even all over the whole frame, so there was no build up in one area and went smooth all around.

kilrgt · 2012-06-28 4:07pm

zero07 wrote:
He mentions why up top... he says its for ground wires while coating and come in handy for oven process. Looks great btw!

Thanks....maybe I should read the entire posts

I cant wait to the build is done, keep us updated

Ryan D · 2012-06-28 4:19pm

Great work!

brandonbig · 2012-06-29 1:08am

Bro that looks great! Cool to see the setup and process. Thanks for the post!

Bling! Bling! · 2012-06-29 3:18am

You do strip the powder on the cups before putting bearings on them right?

zombie_jesus · 2012-06-29 4:21am

looks good man

85mongoose · 2012-06-29 4:46am

Good job tony, glad to see you back at it

worm1977 · 2012-06-29 5:41am

Looks sweet!!!!!

greenvenom15 · 2012-06-29 10:24am

Bling! Bling! wrote:
You do strip the powder on the cups before putting bearings on them right?

Iam not gona use those bearing cups i have a set of black bearing and black headset. those one's on the bike were just to run ground lines.
thanks guys for the props.

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daygogt96 · 2012-06-29 10:51am

Nice work,

LIFE BEHIND BARS · 2012-06-29 11:22am

Sweet Tony! If you advertised to powder for more people you could make a lot of extra coin! Being a bike guy yourself you put more heart and soul into your work than the big hurry up and blow them out the door shops.That pink Auburn you did was a show stopper!Post an ad on Craigslist and I am sure you will drum up some business.

47razor · 2012-06-29 11:30am

What kind of gun are you using? Even the low end Eastwood gun puts out more than enough "juice" to coat a frame easily.

greenvenom15 · 2012-06-29 12:21pm

47razor wrote:
What kind of gun are you using? Even the low end Eastwood gun puts out more than enough "juice" to coat a frame easily.

for frames i use the Hyper smooth but i dont have a replacment fuse so i ran a ground from my eastwood gun and that is used for my small parts and the other ground box was from a chicago electric. and i know they all have juice but running two grounds the powder clinged better, but this isnt my profesion just something i do to kill time. and your right about the eastwood gun having enough juice , it could have been i just need to give the ground clip a good cleaning cause there are signs of corrosion. so thanks for the help and ideas ,

Haro-83 · 2012-06-29 12:25pm

Looking good

greenvenom15 · 2012-06-30 11:04pm

I added a new photo, because i just finished Bars and Post and they came out great.

folzinal · 2012-06-30 11:21pm

That does look great.

Too bad you are not closer... I have a Hutch that's ready for some pearl white powder!

swflsuprapep · 2012-07-04 7:15pm

Cool Job! Now you need to get some parts n it. Is that what the bash guard is for?

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