Owl Coin door flaps

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I don't suppose there's any way to get the coin door flaps out of this to recoat?
Even the door frame is hard welded to the door.
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If it was made that way(welded together then painted), the why not refinish it all together? Looks like you need to media blast the thing, prime, then a few coats of satin black. Hitting the different coats at different angles, you should be able to get all the nooks and crannies.
 
I'm not altogether sure this was painted. I was considering powdercoating it. But it would be very hard to do with the door attached to the frame and near impossible with the curing oven.
The right way to do it is to get all parts off, then coat. But in this case-hrmm. Can't believe they hard tack welded the flaps inside.
 
Could probably be better with a rattle can rustoleum of satin black. Less clean up. Rustoleum does tend not to nick and scratch as easily.
It could have been painted originally. I'll find out I guess when I go to sandblast the parts.
Would definitely be easier than trying to powdercoat both the door and frame at once.
 
Could probably be better with a rattle can rustoleum of satin black. Less clean up. Rustoleum does tend not to nick and scratch as easily.
It could have been painted originally. I'll find out I guess when I go to sandblast the parts.
Would definitely be easier than trying to powdercoat both the door and frame at once.

I meant that out of a sprayer, or yeah, the rattle can works great.

I do not think these old doors were powdercoated, but probably a lacquer sprayed.
 
I powder coat my Owl Eye doors, flat black textured, and it gets in the coin returns without any issue. Also never had an issue where it painted the flaps closed either.
 
first of all, can you tell me where you get the flat black textured powder and secondly, I have a conventional oven, not a powdercoat oven, how do you powdercoat the entire door and frame? I have a Harbor Freight gun and imho it sucks bad as it can't get inside corners very well at all. Very bad grounding and powder doesn't seem to be attracted to neg.
Let me know what kind of gun your using.
 
first of all, can you tell me where you get the flat black textured powder and secondly, I have a conventional oven, not a powdercoat oven, how do you powdercoat the entire door and frame? I have a Harbor Freight gun and imho it sucks bad as it can't get inside corners very well at all. Very bad grounding and powder doesn't seem to be attracted to neg.
Let me know what kind of gun your using.

Never tried the do it at home kit. I have always taken it to a local powder coating facility. It must be available somewhere, if the professionals use it, sorry can't help you there. See attached as to what mine looks like.
 

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Yea, I used to have a good powder-coater here locally but he's retired since and sold it to some f*%-nut that destroyed my original dedicated Star Trek coin door frame. I figured I'd start him out on something that's practically non-destructible and he managed to destroy it anyhow. Pitted it to hell and back, repowdercoating it over and over again 5 times from what he referred to as out-gassing. Took it to another local powdercoater that used GLOSS BLACK and in the process cracked the entire frame in half during oven curing.
So essentially both powdercoaters here suck balls and that explains why I'm down to doing everything myself.
 
Yea, I used to have a good powder-coater here locally but he's retired since and sold it to some f*%-nut that destroyed my original dedicated Star Trek coin door frame. I figured I'd start him out on something that's practically non-destructible and he managed to destroy it anyhow. Pitted it to hell and back, repowdercoating it over and over again 5 times from what he referred to as out-gassing. Took it to another local powdercoater that used GLOSS BLACK and in the process cracked the entire frame in half during oven curing.
So essentially both powdercoaters here suck balls and that explains why I'm down to doing everything myself.

I've come to the conclusion that while powdercoating has a great place in this hobby:
-we don't have to strip it
-durable finish for a base for silkscreening
-some stuff is a PITA to finish

It's by no means a perfect finish or superior to all sprayed finishes. Sometimes spraying is better. Spraying is usually going to be the original method used, if you're getting all picky about that aspect. Also, spraying sometimes has to be used to mimic textures like the splattery texture on coin doors.
 
Yea, I used to have a good powder-coater here locally but he's retired since and sold it to some f*%-nut that destroyed my original dedicated Star Trek coin door frame. I figured I'd start him out on something that's practically non-destructible and he managed to destroy it anyhow. Pitted it to hell and back, repowdercoating it over and over again 5 times from what he referred to as out-gassing. Took it to another local powdercoater that used GLOSS BLACK and in the process cracked the entire frame in half during oven curing.
So essentially both powdercoaters here suck balls and that explains why I'm down to doing everything myself.

Heartbreaking story. It's a tough world out there. I just dropped of metals from 3 games today, and should have them back in 2 days. I'm lucky so far, but have had wrong colors, and textures from a previous powder coater.
 
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