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Title: Ideal 55 Slider Rack Powdercoating Post by: Aron on June 16, 2011, 12:54:04 pm Approximately how much can I expect to pay to have an Ideal 55 slider rack powdercoated?
Title: Re: Ideal 55 Slider Rack Powdercoating Post by: MoonDawg on June 16, 2011, 01:18:13 pm About $100 but do not send the flapper.......it is aluminum and will melt.
Title: Re: Ideal 55 Slider Rack Powdercoating Post by: johnieG on June 16, 2011, 07:19:06 pm About $100 but do not send the flapper.......it is aluminum and will melt. Really? the melting point of Pure Aluminum is listed at 1220.666 °F, while the curing temperature/time of a typical powder coating film I found listed at 200°C (390°F) for 10 minutes Title: Re: Ideal 55 Slider Rack Powdercoating Post by: MoonDawg on June 16, 2011, 07:44:36 pm Thanks, that's great to know! I've always been holding back on the flappers.
Title: Re: Ideal 55 Slider Rack Powdercoating Post by: oscar on June 16, 2011, 08:04:50 pm I would't think powdercoat would stick to aluminium because of the need of an electric current.
Title: Re: Ideal 55 Slider Rack Powdercoating Post by: johnieG on June 16, 2011, 08:41:19 pm I wouldn't think powdercoat would stick to aluminum because of the need of an electric current. In powder-coating the "paint" is "Thrown" onto the object via a static electric charge from the "gun" to the object to be painted, not a fixed running electric "current" ( as in the E-coat paint system, where items are immersed in a tank with an anode & the object to be painted is the Cathode similar to electroplating.) it would work fine regardless as Aluminum is a metal & the third best conductor of electricity next to Copper & Silver. Title: Re: Ideal 55 Slider Rack Powdercoating Post by: Pat Pixley on June 16, 2011, 09:57:17 pm I powder coated my rack and flapper on my orange crush slider and never had a problem.
Title: Re: Ideal 55 Slider Rack Powdercoating Post by: Aron on June 16, 2011, 11:47:23 pm Thanks for the info guys. My next question was going to be about the flapper as I had remembered reading that elsewhere in another topic about not powdercoating it with the rack. But I guess the consensus is that it is OK.
Title: Re: Ideal 55 Slider Rack Powdercoating Post by: oscar on June 17, 2011, 08:45:40 am I don't know what I was thinking. I guess my brain went numb after all they did use aluminum wire in mobile homes years ago. Sorry about that. :Oo:
Title: Re: Ideal 55 Slider Rack Powdercoating Post by: Aron on September 15, 2011, 05:45:09 pm For you guys that have done this powdercoating or had it done -- what color do you use for the rack, and what type of finish (flat, semi-gloss, gloss, metallic,etc)? What have you found looks best?
Title: Re: Ideal 55 Slider Rack Powdercoating Post by: Wojcik on September 15, 2011, 06:43:48 pm Silver with a hammertone finish. :smile:
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