63VALIANT*KISS
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nice ima pick a bottle up this stuff sounds great
How did you do it?.....
I'm getting down to the reassembly of a lot of the sub assemblies and I have dozens of labeled yogurt cups full of screws, bolts, nuts clips etc. and since I have painted or powder-coated everything so far I don't want to use crusty and rusty fasteners on these nice clean parts....
So tell me how did you get yours cleaned? and with what you cleaned them with?, then what did you use to coat them afterwards.
I'm all ears.
But I have to add to your comment regarding the use of sand. Aside from becoming embedded into the metal, long term exposure can also kill you. Sand shouldn't be used to blast anything. Silicosis is a nasty animal ...
Ive done it on big parts. Was wondering about small parts in a wire basket. Bad thing is that its a line of sight thing and would have to be stirred around now and then to clean everything completely.I'm anxious to try the electrolysis method. Don't know about bolts/ small parts though................
Ive done it on big parts. Was wondering about small parts in a wire basket. Bad thing is that its a line of sight thing and would have to be stirred around now and then to clean everything completely.
I do this a couple different ways.
I have soaked rusty parts in miratic acid and washed really well with baking soda and water, then coated. or theres a chemical you can spray or soak the part(s) in right after the bath called RUSTBAN. that keeps them from flash rusting as they dry. works awesome.
second method is to sand blast. I took a 2 ft. chunk of 2x6 and drilled a bunch of different holes in it to hold the bolts. gotta flip them to get the ends, (a pain) but I also use that same piece of wood to hold the bolts when I coat them.
Maybe this is too obvious, but since you're doing your own powder coating, why not buy some high temp tape from one of the suppliers and make your hardware match the parts they go to?