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Let's try economy powder coating at home
selfie:
--- Quote from: griffindodd on February 21, 2013, 07:01:06 pm ---ZOMG it has two Simons?????
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His name is Simon... The four colour segments are LED lit too, and SUPER bright.
Le Chuck:
--- Quote from: griffindodd on February 21, 2013, 07:10:59 pm ---Sent off the specs to my buddy today to see if he can work his magic and get me hooked up. The dimensions kind of...erm.....grew a little as I figured I may as well take this opportunity to get something great that will hopefully keep me going for a long while. I still want to be able to wheel it through a standard doorway and have it sit alongside a bench in the garage so final external dimensions are 80" high, 28" wide and 34" deep including door, allowing for 4" insulation between skins that will give me 72"x"20"26" internal cooking space.
Haven't decided on propane vs electricity yet. If I go electric I will have to go to 240v with a 3000watt element putting me at 12.5A, this will get me up to operating temperature of 400f in ambient temps of 65f in about 20 mins.
I've specced out the oven to handle up to 900f or so should I decide I want to try ceramics in the future which come in at around 650f-700f curing temps, but if I do that I'll have to go to 240V 6000 watts at 25A
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Check your glaze temps if you intend to do ceramics, the lowest firing cone for a simple china painting glaze is still over a 1000f and the lower end of bisque firing for any clay is in the neighborhood of 1800. Seven hundred even on an extremely long soak (over 24 hours) isn't likely to glass the clay or glaze. Even when I do raku I'm still working on pieces that have already been bisque fired prior to raku. If you get into durable high fire glazes you're looking at 2400o+.
I think your oven will do an awesome job for powder coating but I don't think it's going to have the legs for ceramics. That said a small kiln won't set you back much if you want to start slinging clay.
griffindodd:
Thanks Le Chuck. What I meant was ceramic powder coatings which cure around 700
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Le Chuck:
--- Quote from: griffindodd on February 21, 2013, 07:56:48 pm ---Thanks Le Chuck. What I meant was ceramic powder coatings which cure around 700
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Ah, my mistake. Well, um, carry on then!
;D ;D
jennifer:
No more pics of the van please...Everytime Jennifer looks at it I look around for my keg cup, and underpants.
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