How well does powder stick to part before baking?
I'm planning to buy the Caswell $99 system for powder coating some stuff.
Wondering how well does the powder stick to the part once sprayed but before baked?
Like does a gentle breeze knock it off or does it take a hit with 30lbs air pressure and a blow gun?
Reason I ask is where I want to spray is pretty drafty and I may also need to move the part a good ways to the oven. So does the powder fall off easy if the part is shook a bit like walking or rolling a cart, or blow off in a light wind like near on open window or moving along fast.
Spraying the part I am not too worried about wind in the booth I'll build, its when moving stuff around.
I was thinking before that the powder came off a bit easy and you had to be carefull moving parts around so as to not shake powder off. In reading about 100 posts in the oven building section I think I saw someone with a portable spray booth was outside in the driveway to spray?
Also, I think I read the gun should be about 12" away from the part when spraying? Also low air pressure about 10-20lbs?
I am geussing I don't need allot of room for spraying then, would a small booth like for airbrushing work for this, something maybe 2' or 3' cubed I just hang the part in and stand near the box to spray? Basicall just a box to contain the over spray dust?
Right now I only want to do some parts about 12" large flat steel, both sides and edges. I figure I could hang those so I could rotate the hanger to get to the back side and not need to have room to get around the parts myself.
The above questions are for my first little setup to get started with and if that works and I like my parts I dought it would be more than a month or two till I build a large real system, booth/oven.
For now I just want stuff ready for when the gun and powders get here, spend the time learning how to use it, not setting up the shop.
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