Title: Powdercoating insides / shelves (yes or no)
Post by: on July 28, 2006, 09:29:51 pm
I just got a Cavallier CS-72. Cooling mechanism works, coin mech is a bit iffy, the inside has some white powder surface corrosion. I can get bead blasting and powder coating cheaply done. All the shelves and the inside for perhaps $100. Would this devalue my CS-72? I know the originals were zinc-plated. Do restorers powercoat, re-zinc plate, or paint the insides? What is recommended?
Title: Powdercoating insides / shelves (yes or no)
Post by: bubba on July 29, 2006, 06:47:17 am
Welcome to the site! There have been a few discussions on this topic recently. Someone here even did a few durability and appearance tests with powder coating or hammertone paint. If I remember right, PC was the winner. If you can get PC done cheap and good, go for it.
post some pics of the machine and your other toys... we all here love pictures
We've got some Juke people and arcade people here also, so don't be bashful....
post some pics of the machine and your other toys... we all here love pictures
We've got some Juke people and arcade people here also, so don't be bashful....Title: Powdercoating insides / shelves (yes or no)
Post by: halehouse on July 29, 2006, 07:19:02 am
I think the test you are referring to compared two different hammertone paints: Krylon and Rust-o-leum and Rust-o-leum was the better of the two. I think if Powder Coating was thrown in the comparison it would always come out ahead.
Title: Powdercoating insides / shelves (yes or no)
Post by: halehouse on July 29, 2006, 07:20:36 am
Title: Powdercoating insides / shelves (yes or no)
Post by: bubba on July 29, 2006, 08:19:31 am
My bad.. your right Dan... thats the one I was thinking of.. 
Title: Powdercoating insides / shelves (yes or no)
Post by: halehouse on July 29, 2006, 08:44:07 am
teamwork
Title: Powdercoating insides / shelves (yes or no)
Post by: sodaworks on July 29, 2006, 09:10:54 am
Save yourself some money and use Hammertone. It is very durable, looks great and last forever. 
Title: Powdercoating insides / shelves (yes or no)
Post by: on July 29, 2006, 10:35:19 am
I agree the Hammertone looks nice and I'm familiar with it having used it on some Seeburg jukebox restorations. I also restore cars and have a neighbor with a powercoating shop nearby. The cost to do all the shelves and interior (bead blast, and a nice silver tone powdercoat) would be his cost or around $150. What he does is wait until some who's doing a large industrial job comes in and then I piggy back on to that job. That saves me the $100 to $150 set-up fee. Using this technique I got the entire suspension for a car done for under $200. It looked stunning. Of course it may be a complete overkill. I was going to look into getting them re-zinc plated. Again, there's a plating shop in Denver and I was going to get a quote. If most people either paint or Hammercoat, then perhaps that's the way I'll go.
Title: Powdercoating insides / shelves (yes or no)
Post by: TheGarbageHunter on July 29, 2006, 11:27:18 am
Welcome to the site. I spent many hours trying to decide the best method of preserving the shelves, door liner, and inner tube of my Cavalier 72. In the end I decided to powder coat. Powder coating definetly seals and preserves parts well. It also looks great when done RIGHT. Had mine done in powder chrome. Though I now agree with many, it is overkill. If I could do it all over again, I would have them sandblasted and painted hammerite silver. A few thing to look out for when having your parts powder coated: All parts first should be degassed (LEARNED THIS THE HARD WAY!!) if not the powder will blister when baked. Allen from antiq vend told he first has all his galvanized parts degassed then sandblasted and degassed again, prior to coating.
Just my 2 cents. Good luck.
Just my 2 cents. Good luck.