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Has anyone had any experience with Cerakote? The place I'm looking at using uses Cerakote H which is the low heat bake method. I'm looking into getting cerakote on my K9 that I purchased. I want to go with a grey and black two tone.

 

I'm wondering if anyone has any info on how it turned out and how it's held up. Was it worth the cost or would you have rather gone another route?

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It's hit or miss. It has a very short Shelf Life, and has to be constantly mixed. When it's new and a proper gun is used it works awesome. If it sits around any amount if time you may as well spray cheap paint your parts. That being said when I bought it I always bought the minimum, and used as much as possible in sitting.

 

If you adhere to the prep instructions, but only as much as you need you'll be fine.

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Do you have to blast the parts and degas them in the oven before spraying with duracoat?

 

Surface prep is different depending on material but here is their prep page http://www.houtsenterprises.net/dur_easy.html

I did heat it up before I sprayed the first coat but just did a little sanding and degreasing no blasting.

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Any pics of the final product? How does it seem like it will hold up to holster wear and abuse?

 

This is what I'm wondering.

 

I honestly don't trust myself to do it and have a good end result so I got a hold of Performance Powdercoating today and got price quotes. It does seem a little expensive but I've heard if done correctly with Cerakote H, which is what they use, the finish holds up as tough as nails. I know someone that has used their services before and said they did a perfect job.

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Any pics of the final product? How does it seem like it will hold up to holster wear and abuse?

 

This is what I'm wondering.

 

I honestly don't trust myself to do it and have a good end result so I got a hold of Performance Powdercoating today and got price quotes. It does seem a little expensive but I've heard if done correctly with Cerakote H, which is what they use, the finish holds up as tough as nails. I know someone that has used their services before and said they did a perfect job.

 

Ill see if I still have my before and after pics. As for durability it seems ridiculously tough. I was a little liberal on taping off a section of frame rail and had to end up breaking out the dremel and a sand wheel bc I was getting nowhere by hand.

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Before

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k204/stangsn95gt/Guns/DSC_0027.jpg

 

After

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k204/stangsn95gt/Guns/DSC_0001-1.jpg

 

Before

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k204/stangsn95gt/Guns/DSC_0001.jpg

 

After

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k204/stangsn95gt/Guns/DSC_0033-1.jpg

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I found another place that does Cerakote and they have some great pictures on their site of the final finish.

 

I think I'll still go through performance powdercoating here in Columbus unless I find a few people to take advantage of the buy 3 get 1 free on cerakote from this place and average out the price.

 

http://www.ccrrefinishing.com/pricing.html

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215 for everything done at performance powdercoating. I haven't seen any good pictures of their stuff. I know someone who got some car parts done by them. I also heard of one person that got their handgun done and it turned out looking great, but the pictures on their site aren't any good at all. I don't see anything about their warranty service and I didn't remember to ask when I called.

 

The site above is 275 for everything or buy 3 get 1 free. They have lifetime warranty to the original owner.

 

I'm going to see how it turns out on my K9 since I didn't pay much for it. If I like it I'm going to get my CZ 75 done in two tone as well since they didn't offer any two tone BD models.

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