Anyone want something powdercoated?

[rapieper at yahoo.com (Ron Pieper)]

Daun, Qs about powdercoating....

- how able are you to tape off areas that you don't want powdercoated?  i.e,. bearing bores,
mating faces, threads, etc.?  Sometimes large parts of the piece.  What's the process?

- how clean would something have to be?  meaning free of oils?

- suppose someone delivered you a few clean but not super sanitary cast aluminum or magnesium
parts...meaning that surface dirt would be gone but staining would be there.  Combined, say,
they'd be about as big as, oh...an 020 gearbox, for example.  If you didn't have any further
cleaning to do, and I taped the areas off, what'd be a ballpark price for that?

- how hot does the oven get?  (wondering if parts were delivered with bearings still installed, if
they'd potentially fall out due to the expansion.  This happens in the 400*F range, in my
experience, FWIW).

- could one potentially have clean scrap seals installed for the powdercoating, then later remove
them so the bores would be pretty and shiny?  Or might the seals melt?  (see above question).

What'd be really cool if if I had all my preload shims installed, and the gearbox otherwise ready
to assemble, and gave it to you, then could pretty much proceed with assembly directly afterward. 
Thoughts?

Thanks man, 

Ron

--- Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- Allyn <amalventano1@tds.net> wrote:
> 
> > Pics?!?
> > Whats the dimensions of the oven?
> 
> The oven is an old equipment rack - 6-ish feet tall by a
> couple feet square.  :)
> 
> 
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