Cerakote anyone?

[Spencan]

I have been ceramic coating various parts with Cerakote silver. It takes 5 days to cure 100% and so far so good. Anyone else using this?

[Spencan]

I forgot one

[crackership]

I've eyeballed it a few times but never used it - do you have to bake it or just find a place to hang it for 5 days?

[Spencan]

Just find a place to hang it for 5 days.

[Tom]

That looks great. I've been using POR 15 High Temp for exhaust lately, which has a similar look. The POR 15 HT seems to hold up very well, but you do need to cure it in an over. Would love to compare it to Cerakote someday. I was lucky to get an old HF powder coating oven, but unfortunately they've stopped selling them. Here's an old Mercedes part I sandblasted and covered in the POR 15 High Temp stuff.

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[Larry C]

Looks very cool!

[Tom]

Where do you get Cerakote, and which one did you use? Looks like they make lots of paint sealants and products....?

[Spencan]

I bought it from Cerakote directly. It was $35 for a 4 oz bottle of glacier silver, C-7700T. Plus $14.99 to ship. 4 oz tester bottle covers a surprising amount. I also coated my custom 3” exhaust along with all of the items that I posted already with 2 of those bottles.

[Tom]

Sorry for the 20 questions, but 4 oz? Does it brush on, or come as a spray, or do you need a paint gun for it??

[Spencan]

I use an air spray gun from Harbor Freight. I set it to 40 psi using my 100 psi air compressor. Pretty simple setup. I’ll take some pictures of my complete setup and supplies when I get home later.