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before you buy it....talk to some who have tried it......1st off you will need an old oven, you do it in your kitchen one.....and you wont ever cook food in it. also the final product doesnt always come out right. but if you wana play go for it....will work for small things.....
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We have one of these powder coat guns at my day job--a manufacturer of electric motors. It's the 99 dollar gun. We've had it for about 4 years. The more developed, and expensive, gun came onto the market later. It looks quite a bit nicer than the first version.
It's a pretty handy little unit for powder coating sample motor housings. But I wouldn't want to try to do any large flat surfaces with it.
Our "real" powdercoat system is a conveyorized line with a reclaim system and infrared curing oven. Big bucks.
For small items which are coated with the Eastwood gun we use an old kitchen range oven (electric heat) that was $25 at the secondhand store. Typical cure for the powders we use is 20 minutes at 450 degrees. There are different formulations.
All parts which are powder coated must be very clean, no oils on the surface.
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