Unknown Coatings - Ep 20 - How to powder coat a valve cover

What's happening? Everyone, welcome back to the channel. We will change the way we make videos a little. This will be like an instructional video, like a tutorial of sorts. This particular one is how to make

valve

cover

s the right way. moving the baffles all those things, not all videos will be like that. I'm going to try to put instructions in the title, so if you're just trying to learn how to do certain things with

powder

coat

ing, then I watch Random Things I Powder Coat, you can find those videos a lot easier, so like I said, this is just a little video that walks through the whole process, so yeah, if you want to see something else like that, know that this one has a

valve

cover

.

Next I will do a wheel and then probably a brake caliper one as that is also quite common. If you have other ideas or things you want to do, let me know and I'll make a video for them too. So next, cover them like you would a Toyota 3s GTE, maybe take out these deflectors. In fact, I'm going to run this through the chemical stripper. It looks like there is actually dust inside this valve cover. In some ways, yes, it looks like it already has a layer of dust on it. like the purple illusion, I'd probably take out the baffles and throw them in the chemical stripper.

I have this piece of pipe and I also put some chrome

powder

on the main strip. Then there's another plaque down here. I took it apart, so I guess it's good to do this. I know I stopped and played the team video. You'll probably see this one before the team video. I realized I didn't have any new green diamond bags here and I want one of those in the team video so Actually, it won't even be the next video, I think it'll be episode 20, so it'll be episode 22, another episode before that, so they should be available in the next few days, although it should be increasing. one basically every day for the next few days, have the client come in with the 3 piece RS so I can finally have a couple of parts that I want for the final part of the video or to include in the final part of the video, so it'll go up and then another 3 piece build will be done and then onto the wheels here's another two tone project I'm about to start so there's definitely more to come which we have a lot of good feedback on. the types of videos people like, so I'm probably going to mix it up a bit.

I'll have ones where I walk through the entire process and then others where there's a lot of time-lapse and music. and things of that nature and in fact I'm going to leave this deflector for now this one has a little silicone that sticks it very tightly and what I don't want to do I'm sorry my neighbors are getting a little wild apparently what I do No I want to do that, okay, so we take it out. I guess you can see how unpleasant this all is. Yeah, there's a super couple on this piece and what I don't want to do is let go of this baffle like I don't want the chemical. standoff to break it off and then loosen it because obviously that's going to be a problem, so we're going to put all these screws together and give them back to the customer.

I will return the valve cover without the baffle that way you can see. how clean it is inside and if they want to do any other cleaning or anything else with it, they can do that. I think that's going to be all the preparation this needs at this point, so it's probably a good thing I decided to do this. deflector I took out these things they were already there I don't know what all this is I thought I would make a video oh Jesus I thought I would make a video showing that's why deflector strips and this is all I don't do you know what that is it almost looks like paint or something that came off with a chemical stripper there's something like that so anyway I mean there's more it's stuck in all the corners then I threw a big piece here you'll probably see it yeah anyway Dora the chemical surfer girl now it's okay throw this away in a stripper and I'm going to time this.

I had a couple of you over a group of you asking about the chemical stripper I use. I'll post a link, in fact I'll probably post this phone number. You should really wear a mask to do this. Check the time now. It's a lemon, oh five. I'll check again when I get these things out. It's been about 10 minutes, we haven't even gotten to 10 minutes. I thought I'd come check them out. Oh well, they are well made. Halfway through we were done and I was starting to say, I'm going to put in all my contact information so I know why I'm getting this.

This chemical stripper caused a lot of people to ask me where to get it. I don't use b-17. This product is easily as good as b-17 if not better, ships much faster and is significantly cheaper so I have been recommending it. for almost everyone, let's check this oh yeah, this is almost ready to check the valve cover oh wow, okay, we're making good progress once again. I mean, we're seeing who's right in 10 minutes now that the valve cover's been there, pass another I. I don't know 7 minutes somewhere within that range, first take this cover off, what's off, put it in the rinse tank, do the same thing with these other panels or other parts, instead you can see the bubbling happening because the TSP and There's actually baking soda in this as well as neutralizing all the acid that comes out of this piece.

I could leave this on and everything would come off completely, but I'm just going to rinse it off, so this is the baffle I made just to clean it up. Basically, the active ingredient in this is methylene chloride, which is the active ingredient in a carb cleaner similar to gasket remover. Well, it used to be fine, as you can see, it's all clean, we'll still mess it up and all that, obviously, but it removes most of the junk. just in the chemical stripper and then we'll remove the last of these baffles. Yeah, you can see that it also took out all the junk that was in here, which is one of the best parts of the chemical stripper: it's the methylene chloride that it releases.

All the oil, grease and debris makes it very nice that there is only one screw holding this deflector on, but I guess we'll find out what it is. You can see these came out once the chemical strippers had a chance to get in. really fun and some more things here I'm going to show you here, so if you look, you'll know that things like this is the reason why you always have to remove the deflectors. I even recommend that if the baffles are riveted in place, people remove them and put them on. Screw and tighten the bolts into place because you definitely don't want stuff like this and the engine bay now, most of this you see now is coming from my submerged chemical stripper.

I know very well that this will come off so I'm worried about it, but everything here was from the previous work, so something to keep in mind, things are almost ready to explode. I usually put a plug on the oil cap thread just to try to protect. Those threads never really had a problem with anything threatened on them, but in the shot blasting process you don't want the machined areas to get gritty if they're like a sealing area, which they might be, so we'll check and get this plastic for all so I'm not going to cover up any of these threaded holes, just make sure when I'll show you after this, but after you blow it up, make sure you blow them out real good because you don't want any sand or anything stuck. on these because it makes re-bolting a nightmare after plating and then on this valve cover the customer wants these letters to be bare aluminum, there are plenty of people who will produce everything and then go over it with a sander or something like that . scotch-brite disk some of that stuff I don't prefer that method.

I think it ends up looking like shit most of the time, so I'm going to go ahead and delete these lyrics from time to time as we get further along in the process. I will clean all these letters before curing. I'll show or at least tell you the process I use to brush the letters. I always use a piece of wood two at a time, two at a time, it's really a matter of what you want. It can fit in the place where you are going to work. Whatever is comfortable to hold to wrap a piece of sandpaper around.

This is an 80 grit disc. It really won't matter. All you need is something that you're going to cut the grain and the. One thing you want to make sure you do with this is that you're only going to sand in one direction, you can go back and forth, it's a little riskier, but if you're only going in one direction, pick it up and keep starting. That's the best way, especially if you're just learning how to do it, if you have something that's a long piece that you need to keep straight, you can also set up some kind of guide, you'll hold another piece of wood and place the valve cap against it and slide, you know, this piece of wood against that to keep it straight and then just go over it again with a little bit of brite, go in the same direction that you cut the grain and I think this is going to look pretty good. a little weird now because it's ruined, but you'll see after this is all done and this stands out a lot more using it in the oven to degas it right now and it's still moving along nicely now that we've got this gas blown thing up. the letters are brushed on, this last bit of silicone came out of here, I blew it out, made sure to blow out all the holes on the top and bottom of this valve cover.

I think I said you have to do that, especially if it's going to be a chemical stripper that the chemical surfer sits on. at that point when it rings the sand sticks and if you heat it up after that you'll try to get it out even by hitting it it stinks so we have some aluminum foil and some binder clips which if you're new to this. my videos kinda probably haven't seen this I don't know if I was the one who invented this maybe someone had done it before me I don't remember seeing it anywhere and I don't necessarily take any particular credit for it, but I've had a lot of people that they tagged me when they masked things like this and it always mentioned me.

I've seen it in other videos I've made, which is good. I can appreciate it just by asking. On the bottom of a valve cover a lot of people sit down and tape it up and to me that's a waste of tape, which is pretty expensive. I mean, if you do it as a real business, it's kind of whatever, but if you do this more as a hobby and you buy, you know, small quantities of rolls of different tapes and different sizes, you know they add up very quickly. , so if you can get away with not using it, I'm doing things like this, you'll definitely end up.

If you're saving some money, then the things you use are just binder clips, buy them at Walmart, buy them like this big tub of them is probably seven bucks or eight bucks, something like that, that one won't work right there, cut this one out, not me. I'll do a few other things after this powder

coat

ing application that I'll show you guys as well. After applying the powder before curing, trim this piece so it doesn't hang over it. Here we are. I'm going to leave this one down here, it's strange talking about these videos and not having music.

I listen to audiobooks or music all day, every day, and I realize that when I decided to talk about some of these videos, I actually got the question because I work much better. with music, but I don't want to play it in the background and for you guys not to be able to hear that would be a pain, so remove all the excess or most of the excess, don't do it all, basically, just don't do it. I want to risk it going over the edge of the gunpowder and leaving an empty spot, which it will. I'm not going to be funny on this side.

This is all the latest. Yeah, make sure you don't put this back. because you'll end up removing all the clips and then it's a real pain to put them back in, especially after you've already trimmed them. Okay, okay, I have the silicone plugs, the high temperature plugs, and these two ports here etched. for this little vacuum port and then for the other threaded areas on this valve cap. In fact, I'm just going to put a bolt in it. In fact, I prefer the bolts you can buy. These are six millimeter bolts and for eight millimeter bolts I buy like 50 to 100 at a time in a box they cost less than ten dollars so it makes sense that it would be a lot cheaper than sockets.

You can use them many more times, they actually cap the thread instead of just sticking a plug into it, so it works wonderfully. You can check to make sure there's nothing in your threads when you thread a bolt into it, so we're going to throw some crinkle black on this thing. I have this black wrinkle loaded, we go over this cover and the same with everything you want. To spray the hardest to reach areas first, in this case the valve cover will be here under this and more or less in this area, the four holes inside this area as well and then the bottom because if you have gravity working against you, obviously so let's adjust the gun a little bit here, it's not like in that area, for some reason, the thing about crinkle powders is that you have to spray them with a thicker amount than many of the traditional powders Do they need to be a little thicker? to create the wrinkle, it basically absorbs itself, shrinks and that's whatwhich creates the wrinkles so you end up not applying enough, it'll look a little glassy and then they'll be like weird thin areas, plus there's absolutely HATING this floor, you're getting dust to stick so you shouldn't be making so much noise wandering around.

I knew that was going to happen, all plants are no big deal. I really want to put this floor somewhere else just to see if it helps, oh. Yes, I care better, I know if you guys were able to hear that hum before I could definitely hear it, but I don't know if this new microphone picks it up as well. It's not time to open yet. That's what I was saying before about this masking process. What happens is it leaves some of these areas bare you can go in and clean them or you can go in and take those areas beforehand.

I'm a little more proactive than that. I take an air gun that has a lot of control and I just blow it out. Really that simple, this is no big deal. I know a lot of people are a little paranoid about masking surfaces. This is the biggest problem because I'm using a crinkle powder, so thanks, you're going to create a big area there, but If you ever look at new factory valve covers, you'll be surprised at how much stuff is under them. . I would say the same about fresh out of the box wheels which are often riddled with failures so the only other things left for me to do on this will be to erase this Toyota which won't be fun but here we go alright , I deleted all the time lapse lyrics from that because it takes a while I guess.

About two minutes, maybe a little less, we're going to throw this in the oven, so I took these bolts out most of the time ahead of time. I sure do it with two stage powders, single stage, I don't worry about that. As for the stage, it tends to want to join the second stage, which causes its own problems. The oven left this all in a crumpled black color with the letters brushed off, everything came out fine, even coverage everywhere and then nothing on the bottom, so we'll grab the baffles and put all the screws and stuff together so the customer can come back to put them together. the way he wants hey thanks for watching that video there's a couple more here in case you're bored and want to binge watch my powder coated watch hit the subscribe button.

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