The Process of Powder Coating an amp

[Blazin_Jason 10+ year member]

We've never done any before. Plus we don't do candy jobs. We'll do top coat, primer/top coat, primer/top coat/clear, or top coat/clear. There's just no demand for candy colors around here. I would say that if we were to charge for something in a standard color it would probably be about $40 plus whatever prep.

 

[Blazin_Jason 10+ year member]

Sweet Jason, i always knew you were gonna post a tutorial sooner or later. Looks great but looks kinda difficult. Someone in the westcoast perfect this, so i can get my Orion 2500d and 4004 powder coated!!!! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif


dB

I am on the westcoast. Just what? A 2 day drive or something, ha. I'm sure you guys have people locally that could do just as good of a job if not better. Quotes should be free.

Flip - What company does he do that for?

 

[PowerNaudio 10+ year member]

$40 is not bad at all.

did you have to do anything to the amp other then iron phosphate bath to get the powder coat to stick to the amps sink before putting it in the oven?

 

[Blazin_Jason 10+ year member]

Nope that's it. It's not even needed if you bead blast or sand blast first. It just helps a little more. As long as there is a good profile for the powder to adhere to. I've done the valve covers for my truck and didn't do any pretreat to them at all. I just went over the chrome. It just wouldn't be as durable as if it had been phosphated or blasted first.

 

[ruger 10+ year member]

good shit

 

[PowerNaudio 10+ year member]

Nope that's it. It's not even needed if you bead blast or sand blast first. It just helps a little more. As long as there is a good profile for the powder to adhere to. I've done the valve covers for my truck and didn't do any pretreat to them at all. I just went over the chrome. It just wouldn't be as durable as if it had been phosphated or blasted first.

thats good info. thanks for it. lol

i may end up trying to do my amps now.

 

[inapontiac 10+ year member]

nice work. i like the alpines almost as much as i like the orion

 

[danteBirosel 5,000+ posts]

thats good info. thanks for it. loli may end up trying to do my amps now.

and ill send you mine too //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

dB

 

[PowerNaudio 10+ year member]

and ill send you mine too //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif


dB

hahaaa lol

 

[Blazin_Jason 10+ year member]

Back together finally.

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

**** that looks REALLY nice.

 

[Spac3d 10+ year member]

Wow that looks awesome. Great price too!

 

[viperrgh2 10+ year member]

Looks really good but I'm curious if youve had any problems with over heating.. I think itd be even harder to tell if it was over heating because the head would be trapped inside and you wouldent feel it so much on the out side...

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

Very well done.

An afterthought; If you've gone through the trouble to remove the board and scrape the thermal tape off the heatsink, look into using a nicer thermal compound than the cheapo pink tape; Here's the preferred alternative:

http://www.arcticsilver.com/

As noted, the heatsink is meant to dissipate heat; The more efficiently you can get the heat to the sink, the better a job it can do at cooling those fets.

So next time, scrape the tape, and go silver.

 

[Lil_KB 10+ year member]

that is fawking gorgeous. i might try that idea, i have a buddy who does powdercoating for cheap...