Have any of you any experience in painting faux wood grain on metals? Hints, tips, tricks??

Thank you all and a Happy New Year!

~Wes

The engines used superheaters to re-heat the exhaust steam between expansions. I.e: HP-reheat-1stIP-reheat-2nd IP- reheat- LP Every time the steam expands it drops in temperature, thus loosing efficiency. By re-heating between expansions it made the plant more thermally efficient, thus extracting ev...

Lopez Mike wrote:Way cool. I'll be on the horn to them tomorrow. Close to where I live too.

Of course I am in Baja until May but I can dream. Right?

Get the best work done while dreaming!

It looks like those high temp powder coatings are all flat finish. I guess I'll just try painting it and see how well the old rattle can gloss stands up. All gloss high temp powdercoats: http://forrestpaint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/653-2900.pdf http://forrestpaint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/...

DetroiTug wrote:"high temp coatings"

Looks like the upper limits for powder coat is around 350, above that as Bart mentions, a liner should be used.

-Ron

There are high-temp powdercoatings that are used on automotive headers and such... 800*F+

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Happy Christmas, and Happy first day of Hanukkah

That would be great. Thank you Fred.

I sure wish there was more technical data available for the Arrow, including drawings, etc.

For those still drooling, what do you make of a) the landscape in the pictures (forested fjords with snow on the mountains) and b) the architecture (Clearly wooden but not short of cash) plus c) the small boat architecture (Those wheelhouses!) My guess would be N America, probably NW. My second gue...