My recently acquired dual kettle Chariot. Currently out for media blasting and powder coating.
@Cellar2ful, can you elaborate on the media blasting part of your project? I'm currently in the process of sand blasting my Chariot.... and it is not going well.
I picked up a Woodard patio set (three piece 'couch' and spring rocker) with the 'Acorn' pattern at an estate sale two or three years ago, and then later acquired the Chariot from a WKC member in St. Louis. I now want to get them all powder coated but the place that does the powder coating is not set up to prep the materials to be painted. You have to bring them in all cleaned up and ready for the powder coating process - which, I was told, should be down to clean metal. I checked around and no one in my area does sand blasting for this sort of thing. They all do much bigger projects like cabins and truck chassis, etc. I got a quote from the only one that would even provide one that said they'd need minimum $1000 just to get started! So I decided to do it myself. I've so far purchased one DeWalt 30 gal. belt drive compressor, four bags of special sand, one sand blast hose/nozzle kit, one set of protective goggles and a silly head hood that looks like a bee keepers outfit. Oh, and six 8' 2x4s and two large tarps to construct a blasting 'room' in hopes of capturing some of all that sand for re-use. Three days into it now and all I've got is about one half of the way through one of the pieces! At the rate its going it will take hundreds of hours to get down to clean metal on all five pieces.
So I'm curious as to how your pieces looked before bringing them in for powder coating (that is, after they were prepped). Your Sculptura set looks especially challenging with all that mesh grating. How did you get the metal clean inside all that mesh?!
I wonder if there is another way to get the paint off? A lye bath? Does anybody have input they can share regarding similar experiences?
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