Powdercoated Skins & Parts

Got my parts back from the powdercoater and they look fantastic.  Above are the front and back of the 2 tall doors - everything looks great.  There have been some questions if you could powdercoat skins that were bonded together with JB Weld - but no problems here.

This is the rear door made up up 10 separate parts all JB Welded together.  Both side were powdercoated (same as the doors above) so the inside looks just as nice!

These are the parts I had coated in this batch.  Note that I had some extra driveframes so I took them along just for fun, the drives installed in my R2 are not powdercoated (yet). 

More Skins

Wow!  This takes a lot of time and some of it is very tedious work.  I spent one whole day building this Center Vent.  I wanted a certain finish so I wet sanded with 220 then 400 to get the desired finish.  I took a lot of work and several sheets of sandpaper but I am happy with the results.  I then glued the parts together with JB Quick.

This is the 3/4 rear door after gluing and some cleanup.  Spent most of a day picking JB Weld out of the seams with picks and old xacto knife blades.

Test fitting the front skins after gluing.  Everything looks good so far - now to get these cleaned up.  All of the remaining panels will be hinged.