[T3] Valve covers...

[Keith Park]

I do have a professional sandblaster here, and I can get all the rust off
and your right about the  baking, important.  The problem for me is that the
eastwood powdercoater is just too low a voltage to get the powder around the
corners or down in the recess of the wheel rim, and try as I did to pork it
on it didn't cover evenly.  For flat surfaces or nothing with deep recesses
the Eastwood kit does fine, had very good luck with it on engine tin etc, so
long as I can fit it in the Blue M.

Unfortunately, if I sent everything out, I could afford one slightly better
car instead of 3 with slight issues..  :-)

Keith


Top Notch Restorations
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71 Squareback "Hothe"
65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo"
65 Squareback "Eggcrate"
87 golf "Winterat"
93 RX7 "Redstur"


-----Original Message-----
From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of
ftalker at gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 8:29 PM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: [T3] Valve covers...

Actually, Jim, the bails have left slight scuff marks in the surface...they
appear slight and shallow.
Keith, I would not attempt powder coating on my own.  I have seen the pro
setup...and there's NO WAY to do what they do.  The problems with the rims
is ,(at least), twofold:
The rims need to be blasted to bare metal, (and, trust me here, you can't do
this at home.  And,the next step is to bake the bare metal rims for as much
time as it takes to BBQ allot the residual oils, paints, dirt and crap in
the recesses...again, from what I observed, an unlikely garage project.
While I have yet to do my VW wheels, the Porsche rims are flawless...from
1956...and stored for thirty five years.  I send these to the pros.
Hope this helps.
Regards
FE Meek

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