Best anodizing guide?

[Doddy]

Not sure why but set the power supply to CC instead of CC/CV and now getting this...

Getting what?, pitting? (I assume that's pitting and not bubbles on the wet surface?) - shouldn't be because of CC - that's what you're supposed to use - I'd guess cleaning/prep?

[JOGARA]

Getting what?, pitting? (I assume that's pitting and not bubbles on the wet surface?) - shouldn't be because of CC - that's what you're supposed to use - I'd guess cleaning/prep?

Cleaned with dish soap and sparyed down with my clean water supply.

Ill go down and have a feel of it later once they have set a bit.
Yesterday it did the same but once dried it was not as bad.

[JOGARA]

Still no idea what I am doing wrong here..

Yesterday I threw in a bit of scrap and it came out looking alright.
This problem is only happening with my tumbled parts...






Just found someone on eBay UK selling the Craftsman Electric Powder Coat Spray Gun that is quite popular over in the US for its low price.
So for £40 with powder I thought I might give it a go.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Craft...72.m2749.l2649

[Doddy]

Be interested in how you get on with powder coating.

The PSU is 110VAC and 60Hz, but should work okay on a step-down at 50Hz (will wait until you give a review before buy

[JOGARA]

Be interested in how you get on with powder coating.

The PSU is 110VAC and 60Hz, but should work okay on a step-down at 50Hz (will wait until you give a review before buy

I am hoping they ship 240v but picture does show 120v brick :/

I sent them a message about it on Friday but have not heard back.

Looking online, the gun wants 24v DC and the ground cable is to ground. Should be able to feed it the 24v off my desktop psu and hock the parts to any of my ground points.

[Doddy]

That's the wacky bit - the powder, as you know, needs to be electrostaticaly charged - I guess there's a HT generator in the gun. I'm sure it'll be fine and 24VDC isn't hard to find.

[andy_con]

ill be honest ive not read all 7 pages of posts.

when it comes to sourcing the required products where and what do people buy?

I know dies are easy enough to get off ebay, but acids etc...?

[JOGARA]

Well... I prefer this over anodizing any day!

Rock hard, not scratching, easy and fast to apply, cheap...

The gun from Electrostatic Magic is amazing. Came with everything you need to get going.
I do wish they added some packing peanuts or something to the parcel. It was just thrown in there with everything else but the gun is rock solid.
Big chunk of metal, feels solid in the hand and the 2 pots makes applying multiple colours fast.

[Doddy]

Looking very good!

That's the £150 compressed air gun?

[JOGARA]

Looking very good!

That's the £150 compressed air gun?

Yep!

With FineBlack Textured powder, https://electrostaticmagic.myshopify...-black-texture

Got some Satin coming, maybe, idk. Bought it on eBay last week and it has not arrived...