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Right way to paint aluminium
MajorHavoc:
Seriously though, unless you have a dedicated/ vented oven, you should probably leave it to the pro's. Paint fumes and household ovens don't mix well. It makes food smell bad, tastes worse and may be toxic.
mahuti:
At the bike shop we used to send bikes out to get powder coated all the time. It ran from about $35 to $45 bucks a bike. I imagine at the small size you're talking about... you'd probably be running into a minimum, probably a cost similar to the above.
Abomination:
Well for 35 bucks screw it, not worth making my pizza's taste like toxic waste. Ill call around tomorrow and see what I can pull off. Also those household powder coaters Ive used one of my friends before. Eastwood made it and it used a heating lamp instead of an oven to cure, worked ok...
stratjakt:
I've sprayed aluminum pieces (l-channel i used to hold the monitor glass in my neo geo) with regular etching primer from autozone and then regular old lacquer spray paint.
It will scratch if you really try, but if it's not a piece that gets handled all that much it holds up fairly well.
I've never looked into powder coating or anodizing prices, I didn't figure it would be worth it for two little chunks of aluminum that cost me 3 bucks, and figured I'd just redo them with steel if they looked all that bad.
whammoed:
Powder coaters run black all the time. It may be better to drop by one and see if they will "throw it in" a current run. From my experience if they aren't ripping you off, that size piece will cost $5 - $15. A customer of mine followed this advice and ending up getting it done for free. They will most likely get it done within a week if not sooner.