Blasting cabinet, and local powder coating/hot coating

[cjahn]

All,

Does anyone know of a local company who does powder coating? (In the Milwaukee/Madison area)

Does anyone know of a local company who does hot coating in the local area?

And one last thing. I acquired a new blast cabinet (An inexpensive one from harbor freight). This is a bolt together model, which has a lot of seams sealed with the foam tape. I was going to use either duct tape (The aluminum type) to seal the seams or silicone. Is this a bad idea?

Any suggestions on use? Where to get media (I was planning on using glass beads - good for aluminum not to harsh for cleaning up suspension? It recommends 12 cfm to run, my compressor is 10 cfm. I am going to attempt to use my existing compressor will this work?

Any other suggestions on the above items? Please let me know!
thanks!

Courtney "corky" Jahn

[Bob Ramberg]

Eastwood caries an assortment of different blast meadia. They have a website and put out a catalog

[Dale Carter]

Corky, we use Pro-tec Powder Coating. He does great work and is very reasonable. He went to school with Doug. Located in the west suburbs of Chicago. Tell him you saw his name on the forum. Dale
http://www.propowder.com/

[Curtis Boggs]

Dale,

You need to help you powder coating friend with his web site !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Curtis

[Bob Clark]

Corky,
"Classic Coatings" up in Sheboygan can help you with the powder coating. Grainger should have the media blasting material. Hwy 164 about a mile or so north of I-94.

Bob

[Keith Carter]

Dale,

You need to help you powder coating friend with his web site !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Curtis

LOL! It looks like it was designed around Internet Explorer so anyone else is going to get a funky looking site.

[akilcoyne]

Motorsport Powdercoating in Burlington, Wi can do any color and also does header coatings. Found him to be very reasonable, good quality and fast turn around.
phone: (262)757-0570
-andy

[JHaydon]

Corky, let me know when you're up and running with the blasting cabinet... because... er, we haven't bench-raced in quite a while, yeah, that's it!

I'd bet you could get a free supply of a variety of blasting media by inviting a few friends to use the new cabinet -- BYOS (Bring Your Own Sand ) !

Eastwood has pretty good explanations in their catalog on the uses of each media type, from silicon carbide to walnut shells.

There is a powder coating company in Madison right down the road from Pete Wood's shop. I don't recall the name, but I think he had some work done there.

[davebennett]

Call Steve Gamm 262-424-2225(cell phone), Gamm Industries in Richfield. Steve is an ex-racer and has been building and selling his own Blast cabinets for many years. He has every type of blast media you could need. He supplies Elite Engines in West Bend with their blasting supplies. I am sure he could ship to other parts of the racing world as well.

I have also used Classic Coatings in Sheboygan(a few years ago). Not cheap, but real quality work.