Another Episode of Powder Coating in the Bathroom - Valve Covers

[Joe_Rocket]

Hey guys,

It's a funny thing what lengths we will go to to for our hotrods ( and what better way to test the bonds of marriage! )

My wife and I are currently renting a small two bedroom condo. Fortunately, it has a two car garage for my 69 Camaro. But space is limited to spread out and make a mess, especially with the car in pieces. Not to mention you can't disrupt the neighbor's lives. So where else better to powdercoat than the bathroom?

I actually covered the walls, floor and tub with drop cloths, preheated the parts in the kitchen oven, carried them to the bathroom on some old cookie sheets and laid down a metallic silver base with a candy blue/green topcoat.

The wife even helped with swapping the parts in and out of the oven and setting the timer. ( Though she did say, when we buy our house, this will never happen. Though I imagine I'll have enough room to keep it outside )

Heh heh, so what lengths have the rest of you guys gone to make progress on your rides?

[zbugger]

lol... You copycatter. I just finished with my valve covers too. Although mine is paint. And I did it in my bedroom..... A couple hours before I went to bed..... and the windows were closed..... Funny thing is, I didn't wake up hung over in the morning.

[zbugger]

Oh yeah, and I'm taping off my cylinder heads to do the same thing to them. Paint them. In my room.... Most likely before I go to bed. Again.

[LowBuckX]

You can use the oven for cooking after curing powder coat????

[zbugger]

You can, but the food will taste REALLY funny...

[LowBuckX]

Heh heh, so what lengths have the rest of you guys gone to make progress on your rides?

Cleaned the glass beads out of my intake today in the bathtub. I even let it soak in warm bubble bath before I used the old brush from the kitchen sink to get in the runners.
In our old apartment I bondoed/molded some kick panel speaker pods in the living room. It takes forever for bondo smell to come out of carpet/furniture. I had no garage. And I wasnt her favorite person for a while.

[Joe_Rocket]

Well, I figured one use of the oven probably wouldn't hurt... (fingers crossed)

I had the vent fan going and wore my mask while sparying. There really wasn't any odor I could detect.

I don't think I'll ever try the bondo in the living room though ;)

[bigblocktech]

Hey guys,

It's a funny thing what lengths we will go to to for our hotrods ( and what better way to test the bonds of marriage! ) Based on the attached pic in the first post, they turned out really great! :twothumbs

[BlackGMC]

I have wet sanded a couple of small pieces (mirrors, etc) at my kitchen sink. It was great I pulled up a stool and started sanding while watching tv, since my kitchen sink over looks my living room. My girlfriend just kinda rolled her eyes.

[1sick65]

A buddy of mine used the dishwasher to clean a carb. Would have been fine, but he forgot to take it out before the wife got home. :lmao:

[Kenova]

A buddy of mine used the dishwasher to clean a carb. Would have been fine, but he forgot to take it out before the wife got home. :lmao:
...... and assorted other parts. I've also cured paint (spray bombed) on small parts in the oven. I clean up after myself and keep the house well ventilated. The garage is attached to the house so if any smell remains the wife assumes it has drifted in from the garage.:bananna2:
So far, so good.
Ken

[Bow Tie 67]

Right now I have the front clip of my 69 camaro in the living room, right in front of the window, the neighbors think I'm crazy. So far I have kept from setting a kitchen car by it to take a dream drive.

[Joe_Rocket]

Heh heh, Bow Tie 67, you gotta post some photos of that! If that was an assembled front clip, perhaps with a reverse opening hood and cushions inside for a cool love seat for you and your woman... Might as well pass it off as furniture. heh heh.

[Steve1968LS2]

You can, but the food will taste REALLY funny...

I thought I heard about toxic by-products that makes an oven un-suitable for food use again. I was told that I should get a beater oven for the garage and use it strictly for car stuff.

Maybe I was told wrong or maybe the chemicals now are less hazzardous. :shrug:

In any event, your valve covers look killer!

[neki67]

A buddy of mine used the dishwasher to clean a carb. Would have been fine, but he forgot to take it out before the wife got home. :lmao:

How about putting a set of Buick 455 cilinderheads in the dishwasher . . .

[Martin71RS]

when I still lived with my mom I built a bike in the living room....NO way I can do anything like that now...my wife would kill me:spank2:
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[Bow Tie 67]

Joe Rocket, here you go, can anyone tell I'm divorced? ( the chair was for effect. ) Lol

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[Kenova]

Joe Rocket, here you go, can anyone tell I'm divorced? ( the chair was for effect. ) Lol

yep. The knot in the curtain is a dead giveaway.
Ken

[camaro608]

A buddy of mine used the dishwasher to clean a carb. Would have been fine, but he forgot to take it out before the wife got home. :lmao: thats funny a freind of mine used the dishwasher to wash a trans case in collage. the next day his parents came to visit and his mom went to put a glass in there and found the trans case. :injured: lets say his mom was pissed

[Jim Nilsen]

In the irony of it all, I found that EZ Off oven cleaner worked the best to clean grease and grime off of my engine when I ran out of Gunk. So if you can use oven cleaner in your oven and then still eat food from it then the toxic chemical theory means you have to follow the instructions on the oven cleaner can and make sure you wipe the surfaces inside the oven clean before further use.

Another observation is that I know a couple of people that have gotten cancer from being around those types of fumes that were told that it wasn't going to hurt them because it was not high enough levels. Cancer didn't show up until they were looking at retiring.

The effects from doing stuff like this don't show up immediately or maybe even 20 years, but they will show up someday. It might only show up in birth defects in your children for all we know about what some of them really do.

So let's all go build fast cars and race so we can beat the odds and put more into life before it all catches up to us:cheers:

[RobM]

Jim doing this stiff professionally i think about what you just posted on a daily basis...... pretty scary stuff


guys where your gloves and your masks even with the smallest jobs...

[jannes_z-28]

I have another story working the oposite way with ovens, sort of...

It was told by my teacher in mechanical engineering who had been working in this place earlier. The place was the Swedish Institute Of Aircraft Research where they had this big oven in which they did experiments on bonding metal parts together with glue. Yes you heard right, today they mostly glue aluminum in aircraft construction.

Anyway after awhile they did get bad results from the bonding, it had lost its strenght from previous tests. When they analyzed the joints they found fatresidues on the aluminum and in the bonds.

It turned out that one of the employees used the oven to heat his lunch leaving a nice fatcoating in the oven that later found its way on to the aluminum that was being glued preventing the glue to stick to the metal.


They had to toss the oven away and replace it at a cost of about $10.000, just for this guys lunchbox :eek:


Jan

[Jim Nilsen]

Makes you wonder if those were trans fats and if it might have made a difference if the food nazis had gotten there sooner:lol:

probably had a sign on it saying, NOT FOR PERSONAL USE, right on it!

It makes you wonder what he got in his food and what his health will be like in the future?

As long as care and proper precautions are taken ,the risk of all the things we do can enjoyed much longer :fingersx: We are all risk takers here and sometimes the thrill last much longer when you calculate them a bit better. Traces add up.

But if you still cook your food in plastic wrappers then it won't make much of a difference since it is going right into your food. When I started to do injection molding I realized what plastic is doing it's whole lifetime, it lets off chemicals until it falls apart and burns away or crumbles. Not good stuff in your system.


As the guy said when the customer asked, how can you stand the smell?
The reply: It smells like money to me! Somebody has to do it.Pays damn good!!!

[LowBuckX]

I have another story working the oposite way with ovens, sort of...

It was told by my teacher in mechanical engineering who had been working in this place earlier. The place was the Swedish Institute Of Aircraft Research where they had this big oven in which they did experiments on bonding metal parts together with glue. Yes you heard right, today they mostly glue aluminum in aircraft construction.

Anyway after awhile they did get bad results from the bonding, it had lost its strenght from previous tests. When they analyzed the joints they found fatresidues on the aluminum and in the bonds.

It turned out that one of the employees used the oven to heat his lunch leaving a nice fatcoating in the oven that later found its way on to the aluminum that was being glued preventing the glue to stick to the metal.


They had to toss the oven away and replace it at a cost of about $10.000, just for this guys lunchbox :eek:


Jan

Thats funny right there. At work we have a large tempering over for glass. The Gl@$$holes (Guys who work on the cutting and oven line) Used to put Pizza or what not on top of it to keep it warm.
They got a new gl@$$hole one day and he put a frozen pizza under one of the protective sheilds above the heating elements (1200+ deg*). After a while the unloader started getting strange markings on the glass. Then out came a huge Disk of carbon on a waisted peice of glass. It promptly blew up in the quench cycle. (the glass did)
They had to replace 4 $900 ceramic rollers and some heating elements. Needless to say no more food near oven.

[68sixspeed]

I was in a spark plug plant doing an installation, some of the people use to heat their lunches or even cans of soup, etc by leaving them near the firing ovens for the ceramic. One moron put a can of baked beans right near the exit of the oven-- BOOM! baked beans everywhere. If it wasn't for that being a union shop, he would have been job hunting.