Fixture plate to hold parts for powder coat oven cure

**metric_taper** · Aug 20, 2019, 04:30 PM

Here are the results of today's painting effort:

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This part turned out perfect with one try.

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The brake pedal, I powder coated one side then flipped it, but steering arm, I tried without turning it over, that was a mistake.

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You can see areas with no paint.

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Here I've applied the 2nd coat of powder to the side I missed, electrostatic attraction has limited success.

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This was after the 3rd coating, as the second one, I thought it had cooled enough, and I left imprints in the surface, along with little hairs from the hot pad I was using. Also DO NOT USE WAX PAPER, it got stuck to the part. So I applied a very thick coat of powder, and I used Teflon plumber tape where it touches the plate, this worked well.

Lesson learned, let things cool down to where you can handle them with bare hands.
I also need to get some high temp tape and silicon plugs to mask off holes and such.