OH MY-Another build

[QuadJunkies]

Just when my ole man and I thought we would be done for abit, my son got a new quad so its going to be another tear down for gussets ect... lol

MY lil man Brandon LOVES the Yellow/black scheme so we got the same colors as before.
Were contemplating colors.
Ive been thinking the frame,axle,nerfs and bumper in Matte black like we did for LILQJ.
Anyone got any color suggetions??

I cant think of anything really since its black and yellow mix in plastic

[etondaddy]

Well check out Kyle’s yellow. It’s Columbia coatings super mirror yellow base and the top coat is my own creation, I got there 1/2oz silver sparkles that treats 1 to 3 pounds of powder and mixed the hole thing with 1 pound of super high gloss clear. It’s pretty wild looking……. Kinda like a peril thing ……… I shot the top coat hot like I always do and got it on heavy it looks wild.

I can't wait to see it in the sunlight it should look wild

[QuadJunkies]

thats pretty trick!
the green was so tough to work with that I dunno if the guys want a big job this time around

Was it an easy powder to work with?

[etondaddy]

Every Columbia powder I’ve used I’ve loved. But I’ve found the key is (and especially with the hobby gun as they call it) shoot HOT I shoot base coat and top coat at 150* to 200* or so. With the low KV’s of the hobby gun your just putting powder on the ground if you don’t shoot hot. I learned a lot from Caswell's chat forum. And I think I’m starting to but out some nice stuff. But if you don’t what a little dirt in it don’t have me do it Ha Ha Ha

Last year when I really did't have a clue and tried to shot the red top coat I had red powder freaking everywhere.................

Shoot it HOT and let it start to melt as it hits....... I think thats what you ment by hard to work with ???????

[QuadJunkies]

The guys went to the forums as well trying to figure out how to work with the powder a little easierand done what they reccomended.They did shoot it HOT,at least 200 degrees .IT was a very difficult powder to work with is all I know and they said they would NEVER use it again.A couple really small cracks was something we saw
One thing about the green they had issues with was heavy separations of colors(blue,yellow,green) when they were shooting the frame up to temp. and as they were applying the powder you could see yellow was shooting to the frame and green was powder in the air and anything laying on the catch tray under the frame had more of a blue/green.If you were looking at the powder in the can,you could see the separated yellow and green
We want to keep it somewhat simlpe this time with just a one stage I think. lol

[03sp500]

etondaddy

did you build that oven or buy it? If you built it were did you get the plans, and what does it use for a heat source

Thanks

[etondaddy]

Quadjunkies

Ya some colored top coats are a pain, I think every time I do one I say I'll never do it again LOL LOL


03sp500

I built the oven myself the plans are in my head. It's started as a old metal cabinet. If you need help building a oven e-mail me at mikekozura@yohoo.com. Start by getting yourself a couple of old house ovens. It's powdered by 220v electric.

[QuadJunkies]

WEll, we have it stripped to the bone ,Guessets will be done this wk end hopefully ,Suspention came 2 days ago,A-Arms are on there way ...I guess its SHOWTIME!

We have decided to make the entire quad textured black . As much as I would like to be more creative, my son needs seatime more than the bling at this point since hes got a full series were in the middle of right now.

[QuadJunkies]

welding is done, we found there was several unclosed gaps within the Chassis that needed cleaned up .We re-inforced some trouble spots that we had with both out other minis in hopes that we wont have to learn by trial and error on this one .

[QuadJunkies]

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