ANODIZING EQUIPMENTS

I am in the market for a new pc gun. I have the hotcoat gun but that took a dump on me. What is a good gun to get for the casual hobbyist. I don’t wanna spend tons of money as I just do this on my own stuff but want something decent. Should I get another hotcoat gun???

I live very close to Fort Smith, AR and need four or five Anderson French Door handles and hinges finished in an oil rubbed bronze or molten bronze finish. The handles and hinges are solid brass. They have a laquer coating on the inside. The outside has mostly worn off.

anyone use a dremel to do any metal prep? I only have a 20 gallon compressor so my sand blasting is limited, I just tried a wire wheel on a dremel, and it was way faster than sandblasting, but the wire wheel only lasted like 10 minutes? Anybody have any experience?

anyone use a dremel to do any metal prep? I only have a 20 gallon compressor so my sand blasting is limited, I just tried a wire wheel on a dremel, and it was way faster than sandblasting, but the wire wheel only lasted like 10 minutes? Anybody have any experience?

Guess I did a dumb thing.. I left my Zinc Anode plates in the rinse water the last time I plated (it’s been "a while"!).. Today, upon inspection, I saw that my Zinc Anodes are covered in a white corrosion.. These were new zinc anodes and one even has a 3/16" dia hole erroded thru it..
I thought it would be okay to leave the zinc anodes in distilled water.. the time before this, when I plated, I washed, rinsed and dried off the zinc anodes and a "black something" grew on the surface.. It was a bear to clean off..
So, cleaning them doesn’t help, leaving them in distilled water doesn’t help.. What should I do?
And how can I clean off this white corrosion?

Guess I did a dumb thing.. I left my Zinc Anode plates in the rinse water the last time I plated (it’s been "a while"!).. Today, upon inspection, I saw that my Zinc Anodes are covered in a white corrosion.. These were new zinc anodes and one even has a 3/16" dia hole erroded thru it..
I thought it would be okay to leave the zinc anodes in distilled water.. the time before this, when I plated, I washed, rinsed and dried off the zinc anodes and a "black something" grew on the surface.. It was a bear to clean off..
So, cleaning them doesn’t help, leaving them in distilled water doesn’t help.. What should I do?
And how can I clean off this white corrosion?

i just got a new PC gun, the one that is supposed to be able to do 10 coats, cold. so while i was redoing some parts that my old gun messed up, i decided to see if it would really do that many coats.

i had a wrench that had 1 coat of red. we redid 4 batches of satin black parts where i coated the wrench each time. then we had 2 batches of red, repeating the process on the wrench. so now it has 7 coats of powder on it.

it looks great. there is so much powder on it that the writing on the wrench is practically filled in. i dropped it on the floor and a chip came off the edge of the box end. so i hit it on the table (edge on edge) a few times and another big chip came out, down to the metal. i can see where the powder dented before it failed. if i hit it on a flat face, no problem, just dents it a bit. the coating is hard, can’t scratch it very easily. if i pick at the edge of the chip w/ my fingernail, i can’t peel it back any more.

my question is, w/ that many coats, does the coating become easier to chip since it is so thick? or possibly due to so many bake cycles on the inner coats it chips easier?

i just got a new PC gun, the one that is supposed to be able to do 10 coats, cold. so while i was redoing some parts that my old gun messed up, i decided to see if it would really do that many coats.

i had a wrench that had 1 coat of red. we redid 4 batches of satin black parts where i coated the wrench each time. then we had 2 batches of red, repeating the process on the wrench. so now it has 7 coats of powder on it.

it looks great. there is so much powder on it that the writing on the wrench is practically filled in. i dropped it on the floor and a chip came off the edge of the box end. so i hit it on the table (edge on edge) a few times and another big chip came out, down to the metal. i can see where the powder dented before it failed. if i hit it on a flat face, no problem, just dents it a bit. the coating is hard, can’t scratch it very easily. if i pick at the edge of the chip w/ my fingernail, i can’t peel it back any more.

my question is, w/ that many coats, does the coating become easier to chip since it is so thick? or possibly due to so many bake cycles on the inner coats it chips easier?

Hey all, hobbyist here, I’ve been on these forums for some time and reading up on stuff. I got a PC gun a couple months ago wired up my garage for 220 and got a clean used oven to shoot parts in. I’ve been looking around these forums getting lots of tips which have helped me out greatly in shooting my first couple of parts.

A few questions though, how do you guys handle hot parts that you’ve masked off and it’s flowed out a bit? Do you completely let it cool down and then unmask then bake it till it’s cured? How would you pull the tape/foil off without disturbing the flowed powder (obviously depending on size/shape of part)? Any tips tricks are appreciated!

Secondly I need to build a good PC spray booth, I’m just going to make it out of 2×4’s and some type of smooth plastic or plexiglass, I’ll put in a filter with a box fan on the backside to create airflow past the workpiece. I know it’s beneficial to ground a piece of metal behind the part I am shooting in the booth to collect charged powder but what is everyone using as a ground? I’m doing this in my garage with a concrete slab.

Lastly, my oven is a electric house oven that is quite old but is in fantastic shape. Has anyone made something for hanging parts to the top of the oven (inside) or do you just put a rack on the top rung and hang parts from there?

Thanks for any input!

Hey all, i’ve been reading these forums for a while and only been polishing for a few weeks now. Just thought I’d post a few pictures of my latetst work and wanted to ask a few questions about the process.

Started with this

Now it looks like this…