Comments on: Workbench Magazine’s 2006 Top 10 Innovative Tool Awards http://toolmonger.com/2006/05/09/workbench-magazines-2006-top-10-innovative-tool-awards/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:19:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Frank A. Ballentine, Jr. http://toolmonger.com/2006/05/09/workbench-magazines-2006-top-10-innovative-tool-awards/#comment-10427 Frank A. Ballentine, Jr. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:10:30 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2006/05/09/workbench-magazines-2006-top-10-innovative-tool-awards/#comment-10427 I can speak for the Craftsman powder coat gun. Yes it work though the cup lock on my broke the first time around (super glue to the rescue). I'm an intern for a manufacturer of power distribution gear. Sometimes we need to push product out fast and don't have time to send it to our normal powder coater. I showed the gun to the head of engineering and a week later it was at my desk. This is perfect for anyone who needs to do a few small parts. We can cut down turn-around time and cost of one offs (seeing as the lot charge and time of sending one offs to regular coater would pay for the gun and powder after 4 times). Everything you need comes in the case except for the oven of course. And that's one of the problems, once you do small pieces, you want to move up to bigger pieces at which point the shop toaster oven won't do. The nice thing about it not using shop air or some other external air source is you can take just about anywhere. The downside is Craftsman powder is expensive and comes in small amounts. The Hot Coat powder that MSC sells works just as well and comes in larger amounts for decent price ($12 gets you 8 oz, not including shipping). I wouldn't suggest for major productions use, get a used pro system for that, but for small runs for home or the one-offs in the shop, this gun is just fine I can speak for the Craftsman powder coat gun. Yes it work though the cup lock on my broke the first time around (super glue to the rescue). I’m an intern for a manufacturer of power distribution gear. Sometimes we need to push product out fast and don’t have time to send it to our normal powder coater. I showed the gun to the head of engineering and a week later it was at my desk. This is perfect for anyone who needs to do a few small parts. We can cut down turn-around time and cost of one offs (seeing as the lot charge and time of sending one offs to regular coater would pay for the gun and powder after 4 times).

Everything you need comes in the case except for the oven of course. And that’s one of the problems, once you do small pieces, you want to move up to bigger pieces at which point the shop toaster oven won’t do.

The nice thing about it not using shop air or some other external air source is you can take just about anywhere.

The downside is Craftsman powder is expensive and comes in small amounts. The Hot Coat powder that MSC sells works just as well and comes in larger amounts for decent price ($12 gets you 8 oz, not including shipping).

I wouldn’t suggest for major productions use, get a used pro system for that, but for small runs for home or the one-offs in the shop, this gun is just fine

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