[HomeBrew] Powdercoating costs???

Wed, 11 Jun 2003 04:05:57 -0700 (PDT)

I am sure it would cost much much more than getting it done. Thats usually the way out here. Besides we dont have such stores in my locality where we get these kinds of stuff very easily - and maybe thats why I went crazy when I saw a store like home depot when I visited your country!

73
Sri, vu2sbj

Brian Carling <[email protected]> wrote:
** Please do NOT cross-post messages to multiple mailing lists on the "To:" or "CC:" line of the e-mail message. **

Could you not do the sand blasting stage yourself before taking it to them and save 
a lot of money then?

There are tools sold in the USA for sand blasting. Best I remember tey are not too 
expensive to acquire. The you could use it repeatedly for all of your cabinet 
projects!

On 10 Jun 2003 at 22:29, bhat srikanth wrote:

> ** Please do NOT cross-post messages to multiple mailing lists on the
> "To:" or "CC:" line of the e-mail message. **
> 
> Jim is right - I powder coated some of my older radio cabinets (here
> in India) and it cost me a fortune. Infact removal of old powder coat
> was more expensive than doing a fresh one on a unpowder coated
> surface. They needed to sand blast it or something for a long time to
> get rid of old powder coat. It totally costed me equivalent to 30$,
> and in Indian money that is quite a lot. But the finish was worth it!
> 
> 73
> Sri, vu2sbj
> 
> 
> Jim Higgins KB3PU wrote:
> ** Please do NOT cross-post messages to multiple mailing lists on the
> "To:" or "CC:" line of the e-mail message. **
> 
> At 10:40 06/10/03, kwylow zinjanthropus wrote:
> 
> >All: Does anyone on this list have any experiences with powdercoating
> >and it's costs (besides me)?
> >
> >Just yesterday, I brought a scratched up AT-1 cabinet to a local
> >powdercoater here in the Monterey/Salinas area. They wanted to charge
> >me $80 for the coat! Of course, I turned down the offer and moved on.
> >I know powdercoating is a great finish and probably is better than
> >most conventional paints but I'm pretty sure $80 is just far too
> >much. Anyone has an opinion on this? Thanks. Cal. N6KYR.
> 
> The powder coating process involves several degreasing and cleaning
> steps, often including a hot phosphatizing operation, followed by
> coating and baking. It's a lot more than just coating. Did you ask
> what they were going to actually do for the price? You should find it
> included removal of the old paint since it is not at all a good idea
> to recoat using powder, and that coupled with all the above, plus the
> one-of-a-kind nature of the work, probably lead to the seemingly high
> cost. If you're willing to have your AT-1 painted a color they use
> regularly you might get it done at a reduced cost, otherwise you're
> going to pay for all the powder waste associated with a color change -
> and that stuff isn't cheap.
> 
> 
> 73 de Jim, KB3PU
> 
> _______________________________________________
> HomeBrew mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/homebrew
> 
> ---------------------------------
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).
> 
> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
> multipart/alternative
> text/plain (text body -- kept)
> text/html
> The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML
> or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. To learn how to
> post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html ---
> _______________________________________________ HomeBrew mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/homebrew

_______________________________________________
HomeBrew mailing list
[email protected]
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/homebrew

---------------------------------
Do you Yahoo!?
Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).

--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
multipart/alternative
  text/plain (text body -- kept)
  text/html
The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML
or had an attachment.  Attachments are not allowed.  To learn how
to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html  ---