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Ok, first, you can powdercoat just about anything. Plastics, metals obviously, woods, hell even furniture or your computer monitor.
Metals are commonly coated using a thermosetting powder. You spray on the powder using a corona powder gun, place it in your convection oven and let it sit for 15-30 minutes depending on the application and substrate. Tada, let it cool and you have nice powder coated metal.
MDF can be heated/cured at about 120*C using modern coating systems that are either IR(infrared) or a combination of IR and convection.
Some plastics, and MDF mainly can be powder coated using special(UV) powders. You can use a specialized spray gun called a TRIBO gun. This specialized gun can cause the powder to stick to wood, plastic, daves butt. Tribo is the word for the effect you have when you scuff your feet on a carpetted floor, or rub a balloon on your head. Yes, that static shit. The way the gun works, is it pretty much ionizes the powder as it shoots out by rubbing the powder up against a teflon surface, transfering an electron to the teflon and giving the powder a positive charge. This helps give the material a nice, even coat on the surface.
Once you've got the powder on your part your coating, then whip out your IR lamps and heat up the powder till it reaches a molten stage. The powder will flatten out, and then while it is still in a molten state, you put the UV lights on the melted powder and it cures. UV's are pretty much like a microwave. The UV powder has photoinitiators that starts a chemical reaction causing the powder to cure.
PHEW.... Any more questions?
Good. Now on to the opinions. Who would want their car powdercoated like me? Shit. I would love to do my interior.
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