Re: Fred's 1940-120

Posted by 1940-120 On 2011/1/9 21:42:20

Hello Folks just wanted to give a quick update on my progress. Things are not looking good for the powdercoating idea, it seems as if even though all of the parts were starting to look good, I discovered that the consistency of gloss was different with the types of material being coated. For instace cast pieces looked different than thick stamped steel, and different again from thinner fabricated steel parts. The last test came last week using a new powder on two different pieces, thin sheetmetal and one heavy machined steel. These two pieces were finished using identical procedures and still quite different results in gloss. If this problem can not be resolved in short order it looks like I will be going back to the old Sherwin Williams with gloss reducer. Anybody have any ideas as to what is causing the difference in the parts gloss finish. I had hoped this would be resolved and I could accomplish a lot over the winter. Also can anybody provide the percentage of gloss for the chassis parts.
Thanks to all.