Here’s the full-size version of that powder coating fixture we built for a large project with Studio1Thousand. 1,800 of these little brass tubes get coated with a Tiger Coatings series 44 flat black matte powder, while the ends remain bare for soldering. Coating this many tubes is time consuming no matter how you do it, but the alternative to this fixture is to manually wrap each end of each tube with the appropriate width of high-temp masking tape…that is a soul-crushing job that I would wish on no one.

Here’s that NFGTV sign again, totally done and installed on their building, looking out over the West Side Highway and Hudson River. These guys have come a long way since I first met them, and they are now getting to be rather successful in the world of TV production. Now they have a real sign to go with their real production offices!

Small-scale prototype of a fixture for powder coating brass tubes. The silver aluminum frame has holes of a precise depth drilled in it to capture the tubes. The powder only deposits on the parts which aren’t masked by the fixture, leaving bare brass areas that can be soldered to.

More pics to come when this one goes full-scale.