1972 Dodge Colt

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Did some blasting this afternoon.
Who puts 2 different color coats on an aluminum cover?
After 15 minutes, I gave up.
Going to dip it in superclean and see what happens.
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Stan. if you have a powder coater near you take it to them & have them put it in their stripper & then have them outgas it in their oven to burn off all of the impurities in the aluminum. That's what I had to do with my NRS valve covers before I had them powder coated with 5 colors.
 
They are worried the heat might warp it.
I don't know how hot they go up to.
I guess a valve cover would get 250 tops?
Just guessing, don't have any idea.
 
When Northside Powder Coating did mine, They ran it at 200-250* for an hour. This pulled any residual oil to the surface & cooked it off, from there it got bead blasted for anything left on the surface before they were coated.
 
Yes they heat it to cure the powder. Haven't heard from them yet, maybe it's liquid aluminum by now.

I did get the front spindle fixed on drivers side. They had 2 bolt heads sticking up and it cut the ball joint boot. There were countersunk bolts outside the arc, not sure why they used bolts?

And the front end is back on, I think the bumper repair, and remount makes it look better than before. Bumper was white.

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Pressed!
I was told by Bob Cope that one time one of the spindles snapped.
He had a brother-in-law machine new ones out of a much better material (Think Boeing Aircraft) and they fixed both of these. Passenger side with the disk rotor not attached.
These are Anglia Spindles made by Strange in the 70's.
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kursplat, I was referring to cooking the valve cover which is what they call "out gassing" to bring all of the oil that has soaked into the pores in the aluminum. When they put the first color on my valve cover, it didn't adhere well due to impurities in the pores . They stripped them, out gassed them & the 5 color powder coating looks excellent.
 
Demonracer said:
kursplat, I was referring to cooking the valve cover which is what they call "out gassing" to bring all of the oil that has soaked into the pores in the aluminum. When they put the first color on my valve cover, it didn't adhere well due to impurities in the pores . They stripped them, out gassed them & the 5 color powder coating looks excellent.
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oh i know that, but when Hyper_pak said
Hyper_pak said:
They are worried the heat might warp it.
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made me wonder how crazy hot they were thinking of cooking it :lol:
 
When they did mine, the temp never went over 250*. Most of the time I was there, it hovered between 200 & 225.
 
One last one for today. I have the good motor on the stand starting to clean it.
It's been covered for 10 plus years, so I have some work to do.
But cleaning a shelf looking for a head stud kit I found this!
It will have to do till I find a Sox and Martin plate.

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the knuckle looks similar to the ones that were on my friends Colt but the spindle was an AMC stub that bolted on. it had six holes drilled and taped for a std. or lower front end height. I don't remember what the steering arm looked like...possible just a flat piece of steel. All that got changed to a strut front end before he put his 426W in it. Gotta find those pictures...
 
Yea, like to see them.

Demonracer, I thought you had a Sox & Martin plate for me at your house?!?!
 
I hope that was really a six-color job. All silver powders need a clear coat to seal them because there's real metal in the powder which will oxidize over time. They look cool though!
 
Stan, I haven't forgotten, I'm still looking for the S & M plate, I know it's here but where, I have no idea.
 
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