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The first gloss black powder-coated in the large oven behind it.
BUT, yep, had to swallow my pride and get the pros to sand blast the trusses.
It took me 3 hours just to sandblast the two top cages and I looked at the four trusses and thought "No way, they will take me days."
as the powder coating was only another $20 each truss I got them to finish coating them as well.
That oven was specifically made to coat the trusses, ah well.
So they also sold me the same powder for all the remaining components so I'm coating them in an old toaster oven.
These are actually gloss black but I've started on the matt black for the aluminium plates.
These were the red disk brakes, I think they look way better gloss black.
I did learn a very very valuable lesson with the first matt black on aluminium.
If no matter what you try and the powder just wont stick its sometimes a good idea to turn the gun on.
BUT, yep, had to swallow my pride and get the pros to sand blast the trusses.
It took me 3 hours just to sandblast the two top cages and I looked at the four trusses and thought "No way, they will take me days."
as the powder coating was only another $20 each truss I got them to finish coating them as well.
That oven was specifically made to coat the trusses, ah well.
So they also sold me the same powder for all the remaining components so I'm coating them in an old toaster oven.
These are actually gloss black but I've started on the matt black for the aluminium plates.
These were the red disk brakes, I think they look way better gloss black.
I did learn a very very valuable lesson with the first matt black on aluminium.
If no matter what you try and the powder just wont stick its sometimes a good idea to turn the gun on.