I don't blame you, for that price it makes sense! I'm sure I will make my money back on this soon enough though :-)

 

Great work and results..

Did you oven run off a 13amp socket?

I have a bag of gloss black plastic that I haven't used yet, it actually looks pretty good. I was worried it would be too "Gloss".

 

I bet a candy red S2000 rocker cover would look great.

 

I do have a blast cabinet that I'm currently running glass finishing media in. This takes a little longer to remove things like rust from the Wish bones etc but it is less harsh on the softer aluminium parts.

One thing with DIY blasting is you have to have quite a meaty compressor to make enough airflow as the blaster demands allot. Mine has a 2hp motor and only just about does the job.





However I have found that you don't have to blast or sand all parts, as long as they are paint, rust and contaminet free then you're good to go.

I would NEVER recommend you blast a rocker cover after having my old CRX done, I washed it out for 30mins in the part washer, believed it to be clear. A few weeks down the I changed the oil only to find media in the sump.. Needless to say the engine didn't last much longer!!

The finish is all in the preparation of the parts.

I recommend the following:

Rusty parts:

Blast cabinet
Wire brush
Rubber gloves on (you don't want any grease from your fingers)
Acetone sprayed on and cleaned off with a microfibre cloth
Mask up all threaded, internal or machined surface areas


Painted non rusty parts

VHT Paint stripper
Wire brush
paint scrapper
Wire wheel dremel attachment for details
Pressure washer and dry
Rubber gloves on (you don't want any grease from your fingers)
Acetone sprayed on and cleaned off with a microfibre cloth
Mask up all threaded, internal or machined surface areas

Here is my Inlet manifold from last night. It actually took me longer to mask up everything then it did to powder and bake!





One thing I noticed doing a part this big is that the little xbox fans aren't man enough to extract that amount of powder and my garage soon became covered! Always were goggles and a mask..

I'v now designed a much better spary booth design and will be picking up materials for it over the next week or so, will share once it's built and ready to take my rocker cover and if I get good enoigh the centres of my BBS LMs..

I Would like to do the centres the same colour as these:

 

Interesting you say this...

I am currently torn between doing mine candy red (same red in the bracket photo above) or textured red (which I think will come out like brand new OEM VHY wrinkle affect). This will be paired with Gold valve cover and my new Sheepey manifold Zircotec'd in performance white.

Once I have had some AN10 breather bungs welded to it, I will decide which one to go with.

 

Amazing job. Loving the improvisation!

I'm in Newmarket but unfortunately can't think of anything my S2k or motorbike needs powercoating

OEM crackle rocker cover by the way!

 

Haha brilliant effort and the results are fantastic

 

My company designs and manufactures paint spray booths and ovens. I like what you've done

Those xbox fans were never going to be up to the job of capturing the excess, particularly with the filter that you've fitted on the end. Axial fans move large quantities of air, but at low pressure. You need pressure to get air through a filter and the fans you've fitted just won't be able to generate much of that.

Your best option for extraction would be an old bagless vacuum cleaner (plastic construction). You should then be able to recover and reuse the powder if you clean it properly between colour changes. You should mix reused powder no more than 50:50 with new powder.

 

I did do but it is a small oven I %extended it" for larger parts with a frame and a fire blanked over it bit Heath Robinson but it seemed to work.


Nick

 

Thanks for you comments and advise. It would be good to start reusing some of the powder

I'm going to make a better booth this weekend, will update once done.