{"id":1273,"date":"2010-03-15T20:02:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/powder-coating-a-kh24-mountain-unicycle\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T20:02:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:02:56","slug":"powder-coating-a-kh24-mountain-unicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/powder-coating-a-kh24-mountain-unicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Powder Coating a KH24 Mountain Unicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>Louise got me a powder coating gun for Christmas, and my friend Eric gave me his old stove so I could do some homebrew powder coating. I finally got it all together and did my KH24 frame.<\/p>\n<p>First, I used some stripper to get my frame nice and clean. Originally I used some orange &#8220;natural&#8221; stripper, but it didn&#8217;t work at all, and I ended up having to buy the caustic nasty stuff to get the job done. It took 3 or 4 coats before all the paint was off, which was essential in getting a good finish:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_8018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_8018-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"IMG_8018.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I sprayed it first with red, baked it for 20 mins, and it was done! I masked the side with some tape and sprayed again with black to leave a red stripe:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_8020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_8020-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"751\" alt=\"IMG_8020.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tape didn&#8217;t work all too well, and left some rough edges and overspray marks&#8230;but heck, it was my first try, and I&#8217;m quite happy with the results.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_8021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_8021-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"751\" alt=\"IMG_8021.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise got me a powder coating gun for Christmas, and my friend Eric gave me his old stove so I could do some homebrew powder coating. I finally got it all together and did my&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/powder-coating-a-kh24-mountain-unicycle\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unicycling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8zn47-kx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}