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No I had the stands made MC. This first batch were painted, but all stands in future will be galvanised, having them galv dipped is a much better stand..

the metal work looks pro , thats why i asked. im a metal fabricator, to bad you are so far. hot dip zinc is good. powder coat is real good too, and less expensive here, and you can pick the colors. the best would be aluminum or stainless steel, but thats $$$$

actually, powder coating is a good idea........maybe check out some pricing EB?

if you want to powder coat stuff yourself, i deal with this company for my metal coating stuff http://www.caswellplating.com/powder/index.html they have allways done me good.

MC - do you have to bake the metal after spraying the powder on? What sort of equipment do you need to do it?

the way i've seen it done is industrial, parts are hung on a chain conveyor that is electrostatically charged, it goes thru the powder booth and comes out with a coating, and then on into the oven booth. presto, powder coat.

I have a mate that has a mate gives him a call when ever they are doing a "run" of a certain colour he needs, somehow a car part gets hung inbetween the other stuff

yes it has to be put in an oven after it is sprayed. you use a spraygun to spray on the powder. the spraygun has a positive charge and the part to be sprayed has a negitive charge.(or maybe the other way around?) you can buy a kit for the spray gun and hopper, and you can buy a special oven or just use a normal oven. depending on the size of the part being coated you can use a toaster over or you need a walk in oven.
here are some links,
low end stuff
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=94244
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=46300
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=93309
high end stuff
http://www.caswellplating.com/powder/powder_coat.htm
http://www.caswellplating.com/powder/pcoven.html
http://www.caswellplating.com/powder/powder_colors.html

hey dudes, i'm gonna move this to a new topic..........guess you'll realize that when its been move anyway

A friend suggested some other method as well, some bath dipping thing, I must find out more about it...

Hmm, I know we used to get all our switchboards powder coated where I used to work, must get onto them and check out prices..

the bath dipping process sounds like "anodising" to me EB

yeah sounds like it hey Rupe.....oh and Steve, I had a mate who had a mate that did powder coating too lol....got me harley frame n some other stuff done....they either didnt notice or didnt care as it wizzed by on the line rofl...in one end then into me boot at the other

yeh, last think that was done was a purple harley rim