[SEL] Powder Coating Engines

[Ted Brookover]

When I was in the Radiator repair business, a fellow brought in the radiator
and overflow tank from a 56 T Bird he was restoring. I odered him a new core
for the radiator and re-soldered all the seams and installed a new neck on
the overflow tank. He had asked that I not paint either piece, so I guessed
he was going to have his paint guy do a really fine job on them.

A few days later he walked in with the overflow tank, and wanted to know if
I thought it could be saved, he had taken it to the powder coater and they
melted all the solder out of the seams and the new neck fell off.
Ted Brookover
4801 E. Red Bridge Rd.
Kansas City, Missouri, 64137
816-763-3142
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Maples" <pmaples at anaxis.net>
To: "Stationary Engine List" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 8:19 AM
Subject: [SEL] Powder Coating Engines


> Hey Gang, things seem to be a little slow on the SEL right now and since I
> have been wondering about this I thought I would throw it out to the
group.
> Has anyone powder coated an engine and if so how did it come out? I know
you
> have to have one heck of an oven to do this and I figured that somewhere
out
> in cyberspace someone has bound to have built a homemade one and submitted
> his plans. Probably have to sell the wife and kids to fire it just once
but
> still would like to know the feasibility of such a project.
>
> Someone mentioned that this might have been discussed last year but I
don't
> remember seeing it but then again age is affecting my sight, hearing, and
> reasoning ability so you will have to forgive me. If anyone has done this
> let me hear about your results.
>
> I guess another option would be to get the parts ready and have someone
that
> has the setup do the powder coating, wonder what this would cost for a
> normal size 3 to 6 HP engine? Hey it don't cost a penny to wonder, at
least
> not just yet.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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