Powder coating brass?
 

Does anyone know if you can powder coat brass, and if so....is there anyone on the forum that could powder coat some brass for me? (LiPo trays, battery straps etc)

Thanks :)

Yes you can to your first question.

http://www.pfonline.com/articles/cli...07cl_pwd3.html

There are some links on the page to powder coaters

Cheers Dean :)

Right then....anyone able to powercoat some stuffs for me?

From another thread:

£50 of brass is acceptable for one car, but how dare another car even think about needing any weight.

Ironic?

:bored:

You are a cock. Thankyou for that :thumbdown:

For the record, the B44 brass lipo tray costs a mere £25. The B44 also requries a battery strap when running LiPo's so either way a strap was needed..I just chose brass, and I was always aware of the fact that I needed it.

When I bought my X6^2 I was never aware that I would need so much brass, and the car handled like a pig without it.

Thanks for your input though, you've killed afew minutes of my boring day at work so for that I salute you :rolleyes:

Yeh, it's reasonable to expect one car going from NiMH to Lipo to need weight but not another?

It's ok I'm here all day :thumbsup:

Im here till 4pm, im working through me lunch today :)

The bulk of the X6 weight is infront of the battery from the back of the ESC, under the ESC and then some people are running lead around the servo....not really "balancing the difference between LiPo and NiMh" is it ;) :)

I believe, and I may be wrong here, that the 'weight' in the X6 is actually used to achieve the same total weight and weight distribution of the car when running NiMH cells as the car was so good with cells in.

I'm sure someone will be along to tell me wether I'm right or wrong...

Now where's that quote again...

I love the fact that you chose Millzys quote to re-quote. That in itself is funny! (private joke).

Anyh0w.....

Powdercoater wanted. Apply within.

My mum could probably do it for you :) What colour were you thinking of?

Ben you are ace :)

Black probably.....Im a simple man with simple tastes :)

Ben, can you find out for definite if your mum can do it? I asked you last week and you weren't sure, cheers.

Will ask her later :) The only thing im concerned about is that powder coating is quite thick, and im not sure how much room there is in the cell slots on the lipo tray to play with?

Ben

You talking microns or mm's Ben?

Eitherway, hopefully your mum will be able to hook us up somehow :)

Id say your probably gonna be loosing about just under a mm of diameter. Spose it depends how thick she sprays it :thumbsup:

These are the exact reasons that i never got it done as they no longer fit. You would have too start off with a piece fractionally smaller than than the oringinal and then the coating would bring them back up to the original size.

In all fairness, if it is a problem it wont kill me to file the inside of the tray really seeing as no one will see the inside anyways :)

If your mum wouldnt mind spraying afew bits could you PM me how much she'd want please Ben?

Ta :)

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Hmm...interesting points.

Jono, do you think you could have not taken a mm off the inside of your test piece?

My thinking is that the inside of the battery tray isnt visable to the eye anyways??

Cris, as I remember it, you loved the X6 when you first had it...many weeks of love as I recall...maybe I missed something but then you turned up with a B44 :confused:

I put all the weight I need in my X6 for the price of the velcro I use to hold the free roofing lead in! I've spent WAY more weighting my B44...about £40 in all for the same brass bits you run in yours as well I think???

If you wanted weight for your X6 you only had to ask...I'd have given you the lead and the velcro to go with it...for free :p

Seems to me you feel a little scourned by your x6...like it cheated on you or something (I notice it's gone on to win some events in a far off place since with it's new owner ;))...maybe it's time to move on...let the pain go...

Much love :)