I must honestly say, it looks great. Much more eay to make photos of it as well, because at least my camera doesn't like this blue, and it gets more blue.
Not sure what sound will come from this, but it should be more dark. Haha.
That 50 degrees Celcius, wow, I didn't think of that at all. Luckily this is normal painting, because the powder coating occurs at a much higher temperature, and then I'm not sure what may happen (to little plastic parts etc.).
With the notice that Geard went to the same painter I went to for Mani's white sheep of his family :
While this has been done with car paint (by an official car painter), it is not all that easy to do it right. I don't know myself what exactly was applied, and all I know is that I was quite persistent in letting the structure persist (which always will be something less from a layer of paint). This is related to the sanding (which isn't done with sandpaper at all), the thickness of a layer and how many layers are applied (I think here two have been applied).
Looking afterwards to matters, it should be so that everybody can order his colour. Why not. Well, maybe because it isn't cheap to do it.
Four general means exist :
1.
Doing it completely afterwards. In the case of Gerard (and Mani - both were done at the same official car painter) this was 125 euro ex VAT). -> Not easy to do, and while I gave general instructions on e.g. to let the structure sustain as good as possible, you can wonder how it will turn out at "your pace".
2.
Doing it afterwards by us. This means, a blue case is the base. Same 125 euro, but I'd like to add another 100 for arranging it, bringing it, collecting it.
This will put constraints on the "production flow" because while right now we can decide underway to exchange two cases (one more ready than the other) because one customer is on a vessel in some sea anyway (aren't all Norwegians ?
), now this can't be done. This means unnecessary waiting time for others, or less efficient operation on our side (which in the end is $$).
3.
Doing it in advance (bare case). Price unknown, but will be way more expensive. Of course then it's original power coat, "scratch free" and hardly prone to contamination of finger prints etc., but if you'd see the ovens this goes through and the price of a bag of powder (which bag will always be too large) ... I really don't know. Also this will mean quite some "logistical operation", plus the now necessity to have bare cases, which *have* to be dealt with at some stage. That's not much efficient.
I think we must forget about this option.
4.
Same as three, but now with an efficient amount for a colour, and pre-produced.
This is a little dangerous because of rising stock for less courant colours. Logistically it's quite allright because this will go in the flow of producing the cases themselves which had to be powder coated anyway. Will be more expensive but not *that* much (maybe 25 euro per case ?). One problem, it needs a whole new batch of bare cases to get this done hence keep the price low. That would be 17K while only half of the previous batch is consumed ...
So, not sure about it all, but I must honestly say that if I see results like this, plus how infinitely better it would fit people's interiors, I just can't say otherwise than "of course it is possible". But maybe think about 250 euro for it, and option #2.
PS: Gerard, you mention "amp" a couple of times. I think you wanted to say PSU there (you can change it of course).
