coloradokevin
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I'm going to start Cerakoting some guns this week at my house, and I have all of the necessary equipment to do the job properly (solvent tank, media blast cabinet, spray gun, etc.).
Anyway, I'm a bit hung up on the order of operations. Cerakote recommends in their training manual that an applicator first degreases, then "sand" blasts the parts. Some videos I've seen online follow the opposite order of operations, which intuitively sounds smarter to me. After all, #100 Aluminum Oxide is pretty fine media, and I imagine it would be hard to remove that residual dust before applying the coating if you didn't do the solvent soak after the blasting.
Have any of you experimented with this stuff? What works best in practice?
My plan was to do the following:
1) Basic degrease with non-chlorinated brake cleaner (just to keep my blast media from getting nasty).
2) Sand blast.
3) Soak in acetone.
4) Gas out in curing oven.
5) Spray.
6) Cure.
Anyway, I'm a bit hung up on the order of operations. Cerakote recommends in their training manual that an applicator first degreases, then "sand" blasts the parts. Some videos I've seen online follow the opposite order of operations, which intuitively sounds smarter to me. After all, #100 Aluminum Oxide is pretty fine media, and I imagine it would be hard to remove that residual dust before applying the coating if you didn't do the solvent soak after the blasting.
Have any of you experimented with this stuff? What works best in practice?
My plan was to do the following:
1) Basic degrease with non-chlorinated brake cleaner (just to keep my blast media from getting nasty).
2) Sand blast.
3) Soak in acetone.
4) Gas out in curing oven.
5) Spray.
6) Cure.