I purchased the powder coat gun from Harbor Freight. I saw a bunch of videos on you tube and a bunch of people that like the gun. I think I had the 20% off coupon also.
Yes I was given a fairly new gas oven witch I found a way to convert to propane, my garage has power to it but no 220v and it is at least 150 ft away from my house, so it would be big $$$ to have a new line run back there. I purchased a 1/2 pound of semi gloss black from Eastwood ( they are a bit pricey ).
I saw that some people made a powder coat "booth" and I was going to do the same thing, other wise the powder goes all over in the garage and the fact that my GTX is in there would make a mess. I was going to make the booth out of 1" insulation board, went out and purchase the glue and such. I was about to start and all of a sudden it was staring me in the face, I had an old kitchen cabinet sitting next to me with no door on it, realized that would be my "booth".
I drilled a small hole on top to put a 3/16 steel rod through and purchased some swivel clips, a 14" x 14" furnace filter, an adaptor for the hose on the shop vac and cut a hole in the back of the cabinet and my booth was done. I have about $75 total into it. I then clip the Neg. clip from the powder coat system to the rod and put the piece I want powder coated on the swivel clip with coat hanger wire ( or welding rod) Start it up an start coating. There are some tricks and do's and don'ts....like do not let the gun get to close to the object. Once done, I took all the shelves out of the oven, screw a wire across the width of the oven on top, fired it up set it for 400 deg, 10 to 15 mins. later all done. Easy as...(ready for this) baking a pie. I will post a picture of my "booth" later. Don't laugh, you might hurt it's feelings.
