[Hallicrafters] POWDER COAT

[Roger (K8RI)]

>I Recently ordered custom paint for my SR series cabinets.  It cost $177.00 
>a
> gallon. One reason for the high price is that it must be packed and 
> shipped
> as HazMat.

It depens on the paint.  Good quality paint for cars and airplanes may run 
upwards of $300 a gallon.

>
> I figure that paint session cost me $100.00 a cabinet, but they did a 
> perfect
> job of color matching and duplicated the "splotchy finish" on the original
> cabinets.
>
> I managed to drop one cabinet on the basement floor when I was getting to
> reinstall the chassis on one of the rigs and it didn't even ding the paint 
> job.
>
Powder coat is tough stuff. <:-)) it's also used on tubular aircraft frames.

73

Roger (K8RI)


> 73,
>
> John,  W4AWM
>
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