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- Thread starter JohnC
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Anyone got any hints at getting the rubber seal in the calipers? I’ve got the rebuilt kits and when I tried it many years ago getting the seal in was like wack-a-mole. Push in one section and another part pops out.
I was gonna try putting the seals in the freezer hoping that’ll shrink it slightly. Then use a fat punch to try to drive the seal in.
I was gonna try putting the seals in the freezer hoping that’ll shrink it slightly. Then use a fat punch to try to drive the seal in.
Bought some semigloss black from Prismatic Powders. It was a lot harder to spray than the stealth charcoal (grey) which seemed a lot thicker or maybe bigger particles. The finer black powder just fed more erratically. Or maybe it’s the user. Not perfect but good enough for me and for under hood brackets. 
Up next is a pair of old chrome stamped steel valve covers. Still waiting for the powder to arrive. Got a 1/2 pound “sample” of Chevy orange which I hope will match pretty well with Duplicolor engine paint on my block.
Up next is a pair of old chrome stamped steel valve covers. Still waiting for the powder to arrive. Got a 1/2 pound “sample” of Chevy orange which I hope will match pretty well with Duplicolor engine paint on my block.
cage2592
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HAHAHA ! Once you start to powder, you can never go back to paint ! I powder all my parts now. Very rarely do I spray.
They look great !
The stealth grey may have been sitting on the shelf for some time and "clumped". Rarely used colors or specialty seem to sit as its not a common color. There are a few producers that mix on demand and are fresher than others.
They look great !
The stealth grey may have been sitting on the shelf for some time and "clumped". Rarely used colors or specialty seem to sit as its not a common color. There are a few producers that mix on demand and are fresher than others.
Yeah it’s kind of fun and pretty forgiving. Tonight I coated a bracket with black and some valve covers orange. As I was loading stuff into the oven, the bracket touched a valve cover getting black on the orange and orange on the black. I was pissed but you just take the affected area and hit it with a little low pressure air (the compressor was set to 30# for powder coating) which removed the mixed powder then touch it up. Easy fix unlike paint.
My old set of chrome valve covers sitting in the attic. Washed 3 times with degreaser. Then blasted at a lower pressure to rough up the chrome. The cover on the left had some surface rust that I had to blast off.
Baked at 400 to try to burn off impurities.
The bracket and valve covers. The water pump is painted but included in the picture to show the slight color difference which I find acceptable.
The valve covers have a slight orange peel to them which surprises me because in the sample I did last night the power flowed out pretty good. I guess the difference could be that the test was done in a toaster over where the temp was likely higher than the real oven. Any way to get a smoother finish in the future?
I’m very happy overall. When I was doing some brackets and stuff I got some small nibs that marred the finish slightly. Didn’t care because they are just brackets. But the valve covers had no such nibs. Guess I cleaned them better
My old set of chrome valve covers sitting in the attic. Washed 3 times with degreaser. Then blasted at a lower pressure to rough up the chrome. The cover on the left had some surface rust that I had to blast off.
Baked at 400 to try to burn off impurities.
The bracket and valve covers. The water pump is painted but included in the picture to show the slight color difference which I find acceptable.
The valve covers have a slight orange peel to them which surprises me because in the sample I did last night the power flowed out pretty good. I guess the difference could be that the test was done in a toaster over where the temp was likely higher than the real oven. Any way to get a smoother finish in the future?
I’m very happy overall. When I was doing some brackets and stuff I got some small nibs that marred the finish slightly. Didn’t care because they are just brackets. But the valve covers had no such nibs. Guess I cleaned them better