The requirements were simple -
-Something to cook the part to a hot enough temp that the powder would flow out. Eastwood and others sell infrared heat lamps that you can use to cure powder on big parts. The problem is that one little lamp costs about 250+ I'm only making 200 on the prop so that just isn't cost effective.
Enter my 2 head propane heater from Harbor Freight. Normally 100 bucks but I happen to catch it on sale and with a 20% off coupon it dropped to $36. Woot!
Now I just needed a place to put it during this whole ordeal.
The corner of this table looks good. A few quick holes and she's ready to go.
Here's the silver basecoat getting baked. Yeah, that's the crap part, this propeller needed two coats. If you notice I added some hi-tech reflectors to aid in heat transfer.
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The silver layer flowed out alright.
Hey look! I can powder coat wood now!
The orange topcoat sprayed and ready for heat.
The starting of the flowing.
All flowed out!
The final "nice" shot. Overall it turned out pretty good. The underside didn't take enough of the orange powder so it's a much lighter shade of orange. I'm hoping since it's going to be mounted on the wall he's not going to mind. If he does, such is life I guess.