Powder Coated my amp

[Ayrton 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?

Where in Georgia?

Millers Custom Powder Coating is in Lilburn.

With the Alpines you can paint/powder coat the main housing and chrome the flip cover, or chrome the whole thing. Really there are quite a few things you can do.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

Now if you ever decide to get rid of them somewhere down the line and you post them in the Classifieds here or on eBay or something of that il you can advertise them as "custom" Alpine amplifiers. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

Looks great, mang. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsup.gif.3287b36ca96645a13a43aff531f37f02.gif Good job.

 

[Blazin_Jason 10+ year member]

I don't know if it will be any hotter now or not as I have never used it. I may run a little warmer than stock, but I will make sure to mount it so there will be plenty of airflow. I won't be using it for quite a few months anyways because the car it's going in is still in progress. The stripper we use is "Striprite 400" by Soco-Western Chemical. That's all I could find out about it. Looks to be out of Cali though.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

gah you got that idea from me. and supa

 

[JAZN 5,000+ posts]

That's ILL.

 

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

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...

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[Bake 10+ year member]

Where in Georgia?

I am about 60 miles north east of Savannah.

I think I am going to use an automotive spray paint with several coats of clear to make it durable. I just need to get the powder coat off before I start. While I am at it I am going to cut a custom plexyglass panel for the bottom and do some lazer engraving on it.

 

[eisenhower 10+ year member]

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...

DO IT NOW

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

That looks sweet.

NG

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?t=355794

 

[Mark_ab 5,000+ posts]

I've powder coated a few of my old amps in the past. I've found that brake cleaner is a nice, easy alternative to sand blasting the old paint off. I had to do this with a couple old RF Power amps that were a pain to strip with the sand blaster. Spray it, let it soak, spray it some more, let it soak, scrape it off with a thin wire brush. It mostly just peals off.

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

Speaking of powdercoat...

My grandpa sent me this link in email the other day..

http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?BV_SessionID=@@@@0209582628.1132277295@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccjgaddgfdmjigfcegecegjdghldfoo.0&pid=00917288000&lid=powder_coater_h&sid=ie6_BDeKZ9Aafo4VS&vertical=SEARS

 

[Ayrton 10+ year member]

Check out here for everything including forums.

http://www.caswellplating.com/

 

[Lakota 5,000+ posts]

Looks really nice, good job.

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

Looks pretty nice to me. Now my question, does the powercoat affect the heat dissapation properties of the aluminum?