Cheap and Easy DIY Cerakote 

R.I.P. to your cars paint

Very impressive that you were able to do all this by yourself. Awesome.

Make sure you get a lid for the pan! Acetone evaporates fairly quickly especially I'm the summer time, you go through Acetone like crazy! Great video.

Pretty good vid, overall. But man, you might want to think about getting a respirator. I've sprayed Cerakote under many lighting conditions and you'd be surprise at how large a ball of mist it produces that just hangs in the air for quite a while. You don't notice it unless the lighting is just right, but it's there, especially when you're sheltered overhead and the air is still. Breathing that stuff is super not good. Regarding the shade differences, I've experienced that with parts sprayed at the same time with the same batch of Cerakote and heat cured at the same time in the same oven. They sometimes come out two slightly different shades. It's bizarre, and I don't get it. It makes sense if one part is aluminum and one is polymer, and they're cured at different temps, or if one part is hard-coat anodized and one is bare aluminum, but when they are essentially two identical hunks of aluminum, it doesn't add up. The only thing I can think of is possibly a disparity between coat thicknesses, since that's really the only possible variable.

Keep in mind the catalyst to cerakote rate changes based off of the type of cerakote you are using. Pro tips you won't find online: Instead of spray painting your entire firearm in cerakote, use a cerakote E 'elite' or H base and cook that. After that, use krylon "Or similar" and do your paint job. If you want to change that paint job down the road, you can simply use paint thinner and remove it and it will not affect the elite finish. You can also use the base coat as I mentioned, then use krylon and go over it with "cerakote C" in a clear coating which is a much more robust finish, but also removeable. Things cerakote tries to keep on the downlow... You can use regular spray paint consmetically and cover it with their clear finish in elite series or even the h series and cool it over the paint job. It you want it real strong, do it two coats within a 10-minute window at room temerature and take straight to the oven and cook. You can always paint over your clear finish as well and remove anything you don't like with paint thinner etc. Lastly, you can cerakote over hydro dipping.

Looks great. Always wanted to do my own Cerakote, but it's not the easiest thing to do. I know it don't have to be as complicated as they make it... but it's still not easy and it's not cheap to pay for screw-ups when trying to learn. Despite it being a far better coating than most others, it's definitely cheaper than them. I think it's ridiculous with some of them they make you buy and destroy an entire can all at once, so if you just want to do a couple parts you have to sacrifice an entire can. Cerakote's a good one for DIY too, because if you just have small parts you can use an airbrush... and that will massively reduce waste, like when you're done and have to clean out your sprayer.

Does the Cerakote impart any “flavors” into food baked in the oven after the parts are cured? Also, do you find the convection function helps evenly cure parts? My wife says there’s a time for convection and a time for no convection… food not her AR parts.

Nice playlist!

Thank you. Was searching to see if I could just bake in my kitchen oven and not need a whole other oven in the garage 👍

Love the tarkov audio lol

EFT soundtrack Noice!

I think you done good bro. I grew up in a paint and body shop easy process imo

I have 1 that's babied. The rest get the rattle can due to ease, time, and effort.

I use Dawn ultra and break clean rinse and repeat

Actually that lower and upper is a nice looking ambi set..... I'm machining a lower out to put in the Aero ambi bolt catch/release

I just watched someone trained by Cerakote. That person warned against using the oven you bake / cook in for this process. Just thought you might want to know.

Does it not make your oven smell?

I’m having trouble finding the pan you’re using. Do you happen to have a link? Thank you for the video!!

Good stuff man, thanks for the vid!

Great job!

Good info constructive criticism if you make more videos be aware of lights inside to outside garage and oven light made it difficult to see at times but overall good stuff man

Well this was more expensive and more complicated than paying a professional to do it😂

I have the same air compressor do you have to let pressure build multiple times just to blast one hand guard fully?

Can I use my small air compressor for tires etc. for my air gun?

Where did you buy your respirator?

Nice work. What song did you use at 10:05? That was a real banger.

I want to do this to Titanium and Stainless, and make them black. How difficult is it to coat the stainless? And the item in question is a knife, but how do I do it without covering the lettering and steel type that’s etched on the blade? Like how Spyderco does the DLC, and compare it to their standard finishes, the logo and etching looks silver? And I’ve seen custom makers do their own coating in Spyderco’s and they even make the usually black etching silver? And is there anything you can use rather than a house oven?

BTW you need a FFL to do this

Rapco !!

Air/oil separator for the compressor. I'm curious would that be a good addition.

Fucking awesome Tarkov music. Good shit man😊

Can you use sandpaper rather than blasting it?

What’s your upper and lower receivers?

That shape and size of pan is most easily found by searching "hotel pan"

It ok to bake chocolate chip cookies & gun parts at the same time?

That 4oz bottle cerakote sells is enough for one rifle? I was going to use their c series no bake. Mrs will loose her shit on me if she sees me baking gun parts in the oven and not anything else.

How do you spray the inside of the handguard? Any tricks to it?

Kraylon paint is awesome.

This isn’t easy if we have to buy a sandblaster.

Don't your hooks leave marks?

Parts list ?

I want the song brother 🥶

Do you have a written step by step process as a reference?

Where did you get the stainless baking pan. What are the dimensions? Only found a 16x4x4, I’m thinking I need at least an 18” or possibly a 20”. Thanks

Do you have the link for the bread pan?

Cerakote in your Turkey is bad. Make sure that you pack it well with stuffing, so that it soaks up all the vapor residue. Hence rendering the turkey less carcinogenic.

Is that burnt bronze?

I have a question... I want to sand blast my rail my upper and my lower... do I run any risks with tolerances on the rail and the upper?

What rail is that ?

What hand gaurd is that ? Where you get it ?

The tarkov music

lol ballzy af that you're spraying right next to the car with a pregnant mrs in the house!

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Rattle can and be done. No time for all this

Wife napping during the day....All day....everyday. brother I know the struggle.

im going to guess Great Pyrrenes

rip to those who use the oven for foods after this video

With a white car in the garage.

cheap and easy, if you have a paint gun and air compressor...

Lol did you really steal tarkov music

Dude Rip to your lungs. Need a mask when mixing the coat and when applying the coat. That stuff is harsh, especially the catalyst.

thats a lot of work, id rather just rattle can it.

Way too much yapping.

46 seconds in and you have said “umm” no less than a dozen times. No clue what to say? I can’t get anything from this video because I can’t watch it. You’re killing me smalls!

Very nice tutorial, unfortunately i stopped after 10 min when the heavy metal music started

Horrible music starts at 10:15

You cook this in the same oven you cook food in, wow. Darwinism at its finest.

good video homie very thorough 🫡 it turned out great

35.00 for 4 ounced of cerakote, what a rip off. Better off painting it.