You check the temp of the wall in your oven, instead of the part itself?
My thermocouple is a solid surface temp sensor and it’s measuring the wall temp, I personally shoot the temp on the part. I didn’t realize this when I ordered it and installed it, I just thought the thermocouple measured the temp inside the oven and that was that and I liked the snub nose that didn’t stick 4 inches into the oven. When I talked to Auber about it they explained it, and I ordered a 4" thermocouple. Either way the thermocouple is not measuring temp accurately as the wall temp is off 30-60F from PID reading which I think is from using the copper wire extension in the panel. I’ve been manually controlling the oven because of this issue which obviously completely negates the need for a PID and all this fancy shit in the first place…
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I just wanted to show y’all my transformer powder coating booth. Its a Craftsman 48" storage cabinet with a couple of fans on the back. With the exception of the Hyper Smooth box on top you’d think it’s just another storage cabinet. I thumbscrew one of the shelves to the top of the doors to make it deeper. Buy the cabinet on sale and it’ll be less than $600…
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Yesterday I removed the copper wire extension and added the thermcouple wire extension, under 100F the temp was spot on but it was still way off at 220 so I’m installing the 4" air temp thermocouple this weekend. I’ll post a video or pics of installation when it’s done. I’m going to have to cut an opening in the outside wall to get to it…but this should fix the PID issue. In the meantime here’s the latest cutting and powder coating video.
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I installed the 4" thermocouple over the weekend, looks like it’s working properly but time will tell. I realized I never posted the video of installing the door on the oven so here it is. Also I’ll be editing the control panel wiring video this weekend so hopefully that will be done by New Years Day.
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This should be the final build video, it’s the control panel wiring. Very long video but I walk through all of the circuits including installing the new 4" thermocouple and wiring the alarm. Anyhow I will timestamp it later today and link all the parts and tools that I had to buy. This video took me 14 hours to edit yesterday…
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That my friend is first class!
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Thanks Knick! Gotta admit I’m glad to have that in the rearview…I just finished adding the time stamps and links to the parts and tools although I ran out of characters before I could finish all the parts and tools list. Now I can clear about 300GB of videos out of my hard drive…lol
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The is Columbia Coatings Illusion Cherry Bomb. It’s a metallic and is supposed to be cleared. Instead of using gloss I used matte and it diminished the metallic but looks pretty cool just the same.
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I have to get on this forum more often. You keep sharing some really good ideas.
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So jealous right now.
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You powder coated the bolts too! Love it! That red finish is really similar to the Blue Jean from Columbia finish wise, it’s a matte metallic. What texture is the background piece?
The back and bolts are black wrinkle. I planned on using SS button head cap screws but the only place I could get today was Lowe’s and they didn’t have enough, imagine that…
The black wrinkle does better as a second coat over satin black and doesn’t take as much.
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Are you using the fan nozzle or the wide mouth multi-coat nozzle?
Wide mouth with new S hook with ground wire connected to hook and 100kv at 5 psi…
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For any of you guys that were thinking of trying Prismatic they are running a sale 10% off all colors till 1-16-23
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I’m definitely going to try some of their powders. I’m still trying to figure out what kind of powder coat Columbia sells, is it Polyester? Epoxy? Super Durable?
I find the best information for “what is in it” usually comes from the SDS ( safety data sheet ) for the product.
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I usually find that as well, however their powder coat ships without an MSDS. It might be on their site but I didn’t see it. I’m not complaining about the quality of their powder coat (besides my mixed results with metallics) but it would be good to know. I have another project wrapping up this week that will be really cool, can’t wait to put that video together!
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