I drive by a pretty nice house on a five acre lot fairly regularly.
The lot is surrounded by a chain link fence which is rusty. Replacing
the chain link fence would be costly and painting the chain link
would be a real pain. Unless of course one could use a high voltage
supply to eliminate over spray. Is this feasible? Would the Harbor
freight power supply be good enough for a one time job?

Inquiring minds want to know.


Dan

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:49:06 -0700 (PDT), the renowned
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I drive by a pretty nice house on a five acre lot fairly regularly.
The lot is surrounded by a chain link fence which is rusty. Replacing
the chain link fence would be costly and painting the chain link
would be a real pain. Unless of course one could use a high voltage
supply to eliminate over spray. Is this feasible? Would the Harbor
freight power supply be good enough for a one time job?

Inquiring minds want to know.


Dan

How would you fit it in the oven to bake it on?



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I doubt that you could use a powder gun for liquid paint, or a liquid
paint gun with high voltage. It is done, but a much different process.
Google "electrostatic painting".

Bob

On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 9:49:06 PM UTC-4, wrote:
I drive by a pretty nice house on a five acre lot fairly regularly.

The lot is surrounded by a chain link fence which is rusty. Replacing

the chain link fence would be costly and painting the chain link

would be a real pain. Unless of course one could use a high voltage

supply to eliminate over spray. Is this feasible? Would the Harbor

freight power supply be good enough for a one time job?



Inquiring minds want to know.





Dan

This is why there are kids. Read Tom Sawyer, or watch The Karate Kid :-)

On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 9:49:06 PM UTC-4, wrote:

[painting a chain-link fence]

If there's sufficient room under the fence, I wonder if you could hook up a very low pressure recirculating pump to more-or-less pour paint onto the fence and catch (and recirculate) the runoff. This is the factory method they use for painting prefabricated/painted wooden fence sections.

wrote:
I drive by a pretty nice house on a five acre lot fairly regularly.
The lot is surrounded by a chain link fence which is rusty. Replacing
the chain link fence would be costly and painting the chain link
would be a real pain. Unless of course one could use a high voltage
supply to eliminate over spray. Is this feasible? Would the Harbor
freight power supply be good enough for a one time job?

Inquiring minds want to know.


Dan

Electrostatic Painting. Very common in industry, but for what you're
thinking it won't really help.
There will still be a lot of over spray through the fence. What it does
do is ensure an even coat
within spots that are hard to reach.

The easy way to do chain is to pull it off the posts, roll it up and dip it.

If you have to paint it in place an 18" roller with long nap does pretty
well.


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Steve W.

On Aug 15, 11:51*am, "Steve W." wrote:


The easy way to do chain is to pull it off the posts, roll it up and dip it.

If you have to paint it in place an 18" roller with long nap does pretty
well.

--
Steve W.

Pulling it off the posts sounds like the best option. Thanks for
the idea.

Dan