Termite: You must have been posting while I was typing. It's good to know you have had success powdercoating cases and it can be done. What's your procedure on prepwork for these oil soaked items? Even after 4 hrs of outgassing I still get the occausional bubble(it's only on pieces that originally had oil in them) come through the finished item (sucks big time). Do you bolt the cases together when coating, or do you mask them off separate (a lot of work involved in this step)? I have no doubt the powdercoat will bond well to the cases if the proper preping is done. The Honda castings are not the best to work with either. If you ever have to cut or mill into any of the castings you will find them full of pits and debris!


Termite: I've got a question on powdercoating. I seem to have the most problem with getting a nice even covering with only the wrinkle powder. Standard practice is to spray powder on with everything at room temperature, oven preheated at 425, place piece in till flow out, and bring temperature to 400 for 20 minutes. What I'm finding with the wrinkle powder on anything that has a lot of corners the faraday effect is worse. If you spray enough to cover, you get a crust formed during the cure in the corners where the powder was built up.The crust can easily be broken out. I tried hot flossing at 150 and 170 and had the same problem. The only thing I've found that prevents the crust is to flow out the powder at room temperature on the piece also at room temperature, but leave the oven cold, place the piece in the oven, then turn the temperature on to 400 for 1/2 hr. Have you got any tricks of the trade you would be willing to share?