Need powder coating advice

Would it be practical to powder coat this “pot”? (I don’t intend to coat the penny or the wooden spoon).

I want both the inside and the outside coated. I plan to paint the handles a different color after the powder coating, so if they don’t get coated perfectly it’s not a problem.

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I’m sorry to ask questions, but…
Why do you want it powder coated?
I’d think keeping the copper and letting it patina would be desirable.

My impression:
It should powder coat just fine (outside; inside might be a challenge to “spray” well on something that small), although I’m not accustomed to seeing pieces that small. I’m reminded of the dude who made his own tooltags and powercoated the recesses to make them pop. If I can find that video, I’ll post it, for whatever value that might have (I’m sure you’ve seen it before).

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2 reasons - to hide my crappy solder job … but more importantly because the scene in which I plan to put it really calls for an enamel pan. Copper would have been too fancy.

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It would be really cool to try drawing the copper to create the pot. You could do a real glazed enamel coating if you did that. But then again deep drawing metal is really tricky. Especially at the scale you work at, I could see it becoming really difficult.

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Should coat fine; use some wire to suspend by the handles. I would spray it upside down, so you don’t have excess powder accumulating inside the pot.

-Jim

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Yes, it would be really cool. I don’t know anything about that … but it would be really cool. (I used the lathe for this one).

Interesting suggestion. Since this is entirely copper, I might be able to enamel it. I need to ask the jewelry folks about that as an alternative … @nausser915 -who would be a good person in your group to ask about enameling my copper pot?

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I think you could enamel that in jewelry. Pretty sure have a lot of enamels (if they don’t, I have some).

My suggestion is do some test enamels on practice copper to find the color and finesse technique

I’d solder a few things together because I don’t know if the enamel would act different over the solder.

I think @Kati (Katiri) is one person i would start with for help. She’s taught some of the classes. I’m sure Joseph would know who else

Loooove your teensy pot. Assuming it’s to go on that old stove where your (great) grandma was in the pic?

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What a cute little pot and spoon!!! :smile:. I think it would be cool to enamel it and I can help you with that. I have to admit though I think it’s cool the way it is in copper. What kind of solder did you use (silver)?

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I like it in copper, too, but it’s going in a scene with my great-grandmother (I’m replicating a photo). They were poor immigrants so I’m certain they couldn’t afford a copper pot.

I used Stay-Brite “silver solder”. It melts at 430 degrees, so that might limit what I can do with it.

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Yeah, that solder won’t work with fine glass enamels. Have you looked into painting it instead? I think that would be the easiest thing to do?

You may not be able to powder coat it. I don’t recall the temps but I wanna say it 450ish. There may be a work around though.

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I think the “normal” temp for powder coats is 400F.

I’m not sure I like that 30F margin in a toaster oven, though…

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Yeah powder coating (at least with our powders) is a surface temp of 400F.

Depending on the solder tolerance may be too high

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If you want to enamel it we can un-solder your piece, clean it all off and resolder with a different kind that can withstand high temperatures and then proceed with enameling. Just let me know if you want to proceed with that and I can help you :wink:

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I have 45% silver solder & flux if you would like some @John_Marlow

Thanks. I actually have silver jeweler’s solder, all the way up to hard flow - I just didn’t think about the implications of what I did use. And now that it’s soldered I’m reluctant to disassemble it to resolder it.

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