Heavy Metal Part 2

Sandblasting and powder coating!

They say that powers coating really needs clean metal, so I decider to sandblast all pieces. Now they all have this beautiful ghostly white color with a subtle glitter. Really beautiful.

Before pulling all of the pieces at risk, I decided to do a test coating on a throw-away piece. Not much to say. I hung it from the trolley, grounded the powder gun and sprayed. Except for the area closest to where it hung from the wire, the powder covered the piece with perfect smoothness.

After some waiting time in the oven, the piece came out with a nice white color. As usual, when you paint something, you immediately see all of the kinds you committed when preparing the piece.

So next time, I might take another pass with the sand blaster just to make sure that all of my pieces are perfect before powder coating them….