I'm curious, I wont have my regs in front of me till tomorrow.
What exactly is the material type used for making the shell and purge plate of the 2nd stage?
Mostly what are it's properties regarding heat tolerances?
A friend of mine runs a powder coating business and thought it would be cool to try to powder coat the purge plate(IE a neon green one for an 02 bottle).
I know he's successfully done many materials that you normally wouldn't think would survive powder coating and they actually turned out really well.
Things ranging from a full tube chasis, motorcycle frames, valve covers, wheels(both aluminum and steel), down to delicate things like hard plastic and nylon/vinyl intake manifolds, interior plastic trim pieces(couldn't find any original GNX trim pieces in good condition so he sanded and powder coated some junkyard ones to look nice and shiny)
edit: I don't plan on doing any of this with my current set since they are for my doubles, but I thought about buying another 1st and 2nd for my deco bottle and selling the diverite o2 reg. As for colorful "unique" designs...not really for me but I'm sure if it can handle it there is someone out there that would want a fuchsia and lavender HOG 2nd stage lol
What exactly is the material type used for making the shell and purge plate of the 2nd stage?
Mostly what are it's properties regarding heat tolerances?
A friend of mine runs a powder coating business and thought it would be cool to try to powder coat the purge plate(IE a neon green one for an 02 bottle).
I know he's successfully done many materials that you normally wouldn't think would survive powder coating and they actually turned out really well.
Things ranging from a full tube chasis, motorcycle frames, valve covers, wheels(both aluminum and steel), down to delicate things like hard plastic and nylon/vinyl intake manifolds, interior plastic trim pieces(couldn't find any original GNX trim pieces in good condition so he sanded and powder coated some junkyard ones to look nice and shiny)
edit: I don't plan on doing any of this with my current set since they are for my doubles, but I thought about buying another 1st and 2nd for my deco bottle and selling the diverite o2 reg. As for colorful "unique" designs...not really for me but I'm sure if it can handle it there is someone out there that would want a fuchsia and lavender HOG 2nd stage lol