Powder Coating 101

So this is what $100 gets you when powder coating parts. Of course, you have to drive into the bowels of Lawrence (twice) to get that price, but I think you would be hard pressed to beat the price and a turn around time of less than 24 hours. At first, I just wanted to powder coat the spindle adapters (bottom center of picture), but Frank's (from Royal Powder Coating) minimum price was $50 and he said he could do a lot more for not much more money. So, Lorne and I went through the boxes and build manual and found every piece of the FFR kit that was not already finished in some form or other and I brought them all down to Holly Street in Lawrence. You can see from the picture that the overhead for his facility is not that high, contributing to the super low price!

I dropped them off on Tuesday at 8:30 am (don't worry, Frank is there at 4:00 am, so you can't be there too early) and picked them up at 8 am the next morning. He did a great job. Wednesday night, I re-assembled the door hinges (left of picture) and loosely mounted the spindle adapters on the spindles. The rest of the components shown are the side pipe brackets (center of image) and pieces of the hood hinges.

Now I know where I will be going when it is time to do some powder coating for my restoration project of my 1974 Jeep CJ-5.

- Wilkie