Find a company in town that has a powder coat line and in the 2nd shift, check with the boss, but have the kid who pulls the trigger on the gun process your wheels. May not have the exact color, and buy him a pizza and a pop. That's how I get my stuff P-coated.
You need to prep the wheels. But make sure the bare steel wheels are de-painted and then have the wheels go through the the whole process. Wash away oils and soils, apply 150 mg iron phosphate or 300 mg zinc phosphate per square foot, rinse, dry, cool, P-coat, and cure. Need about 5 to 8 lb powder for 4 to 6 wheels. Don't put the powder on thick and make sure the powder is an epoxy-polyester blend.
Oh try to have the wheels p-coated with virgin powder or at least powder that has not been recycled too many time. Insist on a few scoops of virgin in the powder hopper. That helps minimize the coating thickness. Really dead non electrostatic powder just builds up terribly. It's simply blown on. Not attracted to the work no matter how good the ground is.
Brent in 10-uh-C; Not steeling at all.
Do you have any idea just how many tons of 50 pound boxes of powder are recovered while just cleaning a p-coat booths, hoses, guns, hoppers and airfilters?
By the way. One 50 lb box of powder recycled is equal to two 55 gallon drums of Mauer-Shoemacker paint cut to 20 seconds on a #2 Zahn cup applied in an electrostatic Randsburg disc painting outfit and 10 gallon 'hot' isolated pot.
Any operating p-coat line has boxes and boxes of used powder waiting for an out-of-site job/under hood part, or just some job that is to be p-coated for protection only, color no option. Contaminated power, say black and white does not come out grey, but comes out black with white specks in it. They don't do the Mr Spock mind meld here.
There are companies out there that buy used powder for remelt and re pulverization and make regrind generic powder of no particular types. That's for el-cheapo's companies or jobs that apply a point-of-purchase, a 'lick and a promice' coating.
At Junction Mf'g. in Rives Junction, Michigan we lost a 33,000 piece a week p-coated wire job for one of our three paintlines...each paintline I designed and built was for 33,000 pieces per a 10 hour day at a line speed of 15 feet per minute with many pieces of work hung on the trolley and clevises. Six days a week. It paid for Ben's D-900 L.O.S.H.
[wire is any dia from 1-1/8 inch down to wire tie for bannans with paper on them where you start out with one top hat and end up with 300+ top hats by the time you get done pulling, heat treating, pulling again. Our Morgan wire puller, one of two ever made ran on 1700 amp 3 phase.]
...doing pulling, straightening, cut-off, coining, bending and piercing for GM B.O.C. in Lancing, 'Miss-Again' by a 1/4 of a penny per piece. Ben Stahl [that's 'steal' in German by the way] said not to worry the job will come back. And it did. We used prison labor for 75 cents an hour. The State made up the difference for minimum wage, packed them a lunch and supplied the school bus transportation to and from Jackson Prison. I had 3 inmates. Can't call them prisoners and these guys were my best workers. They loved to get out of the cage.
But a company should make a profit. That's how you and I get paid, unless you have a government job. No profit necessary here. I wish every 10th person was a millionaire then I could be a thousandaire. I never worked for a guy who had no money. Buck Ofama. LOL
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Isn't that kinda immoral, ...and stealing from somebody?
