Powder Coated my amp

[Blazin_Jason 10+ year member]

Got bored this weekend as I am waiting on parts to arrive to finish up a box and what not. So I decided to take apart my alpine mrv-f540 that I just got off ebay. Decided that I wanted to take it into work and powder coat it. Well I didn't know what color I wanted to paint it, so I went with white. Turned out pretty good. Eventually I will do my mrd-m1000 white as well. Looks clean and simple, just how I like it.

Jason

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[flakko 5,000+ posts]

daang thats pretty. very pretty. where do you get the stuff to powdercoat? how much does it cost? i mite do one black.

 

[Blazin_Jason 10+ year member]

Cost me my time. Started working at a local shop few months ago. So I just went in after work blasted the old paint off in our bead blaster and painted it. I don't know how much it would cost to get it done though.

 

[Bake 10+ year member]

I have an amp that needs a new finish. Are there any paint strippers that will remove powder coat. Does it have to be blasted or sanded?

 

[SBLAZER]

thats tight, good job

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

eh oh well i guess ill spraypaint it lol ghetto style

 

[Blazin_Jason 10+ year member]

We have some paint stripper that eats powder coat very well. I'll try to find out more about it. I try to stay away from the stuff myself. We also have a burn off oven that you can put stuff into and 4 hours later at about 700 degrees any paint is off and can be cleaned up easily. So if our crappy little shop has a burn off oven, I would think others would as well. It's almost impossible to blast off powder coat without a high pressure sand blaster and coarse grain sand. Best bet is strip it, or even sand it off. Palm sander or something.

 

[Bake 10+ year member]

Thanks Blazin, I figured it would take a high pressure media blaster. If you find out what might strip it let me know. Thanks. Oh yeah, Good job on the amp.

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

Definetly unique.

I want to powder coat my amp as well.

It probably wont be cheap though //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Nice job!

 

[Fission 10+ year member]

Dats pertty, derhyuck! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Justin89T 10+ year member]

I had about 30 peices done in my engine bay.... two coats per peice and hours of taping all the ports/valleys off. the guy charged me 100 bucks but that's cuz I'd done business with him before. He said it's normally 35 bucks per coat for about ~5 peices. after 5 peices it goes up however much the powdercoater would like, per piece.

 

[THUNDERBIRD 10+ year member]

that looks awsome!

 

[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

looks nice..how is it about retaining heat now?

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

In case anyone is interested there is a fairly easy way to powder coat at home. I have done it to my old paintball gun, I will dig up a link on it if anyone is interested...