Impulse buy: Fluidising Dip Tank

[Shox Dr]

Thought about building one of these for yrs, just happened to pick one up on you know where, for 30quid.

Not a great deal to them, just a box with a defuser in the bottom, but worth 30quid of my time.

I know you can use them for plastic dipping, as that's what I wanted it for: I've a lot of tools with plastic grips, that over time, have become tatty, and I'd like to replace them.

But it got me to thinking, about using it to powder coat stuff.

Anyone used one for this purpose?

 

[500e]

Found this Shox Dr

http://www.finishing.com/130/23.shtml

 

[Keith 66]

We have a fluidised bath set up at college, it is just a wooden box with a diffuser a couple of inches of the bottom, the diffuser is canvas over a ply sub base full off holes. It uses PVC granules of any colour you can think of.
A vacumn cleaner on blow provides the air & the pvc bubbles like quicksand.
We dont bother with any primer just make sure the metal is clean, heat to approx 180 degrees C then immerse the part in the bath for a few seconds then lift out to dry. If its not hot enough the part will have little pinholes in the plastic & will have a rough finish. If too hot It will smoke & run off.
A bit of experimentation & every set of pliers & scribe you own will be covered!
And remember the plastic holds the heat in so things tend to stay hot for quite a while. And someone always tries to touch it to see if its dry, not the best of ideas!