Well I got no choice other than not to powdercoat anything. I split up my pile so far and took just what I want black to the local farm parts company that also offers powdercoat, I've used before, my son actually was the powdercoat guy there 15 years ago/. $625 was the quote. And again that's with them already having been sandblasted. And I thought the guy up north that told me $750 for everything, both my black parts and the parts I want green, was crazy. I still do. I figured the place by me would be much more reasonable.
Still need an oven. For what the Eastwood gun and the powder I bought from them cost I can try and fail many times and not come up with that much cost. I just hope the dual voltage gun they sell (of which I bought and haven't taken out of the box yet) doesn't turn into as big of a POS as their sandblaster hood. I've had other sandblasting hoods (they kind of look like the hat/mask that a beekeeper would use) and just plain wore em out, but I was gifted the one I used yesterday, I was able to get the drip rail area (only) on the D250 roof done using it and barely before that fell apart on me.
I went for a 5 hour ride today for more 80s truck stuff this morning and was in the area where the napa store is that has the best stock in the area (still an hour away from me) of sandblasting supplies onthe way home, so I stopped by and got a fresh bag of glass beads for my cabinet.
I drained my cabinet yesterday and didn't realize all the crap in the hopper, all kinds of clumps and peeled old paint.
I strained that thru a window screen and put it in my pressure pot in the back yard to use it up on the truck cab, one last use and then basically blown and distributed into the back yard instead of just thrown out. I can tell about half of what was in that cabinet was used and used and used and the rest appears to have never been used based on color of the beads I drained out.
I called Eastwood just a little bit ago and paid for the march 7 or 8 powdercoating class. I missed the one in January. And I called them twice since, they were "talking about" when the next one would be, but they had to decide between 2 different dates and both times they said they would call me since i missed the cutoff for the January one. I never what call. I guess they ain't good about calling someone back when they say they will.
