Right, on a complete tangent I thought I would tell you briefly about our little powder coating business.
As always Annalie as always was behind me 100%, why can't she discourage me more.
Anyway, this is my latest hair brained scheme. I had never powder coated anything before in my life, but I read a couple of books and it didn't look that hard to work out, so I applied for a grant from the local enterprise scheme and got it!
Noone else was doing it up here so I had an entirely new market to myself.
But huge ovens and booths and so on are expensive so I made everything myself. Annalie ran away the first time I fired up the oven, it sounds like some kind of prehistoric beast when the main burner kicks in!
Here's a couple of pics to give you an idea:
Our workshop is a bit ramshackle but it keeps the rain off and it's cheap!
This is my booth and my oven, the oven is a serious piece of kit and I'm terrified of it. I have nightmares about the door shutting behind me!
And lets face it, the reason anybody starts a business. Somewhere dry with lots of tools to work on the car
And this is a photo of the first set of shadow chrome wheels I ever did. I used to take pictures of nearly everything I coated back when we first started!
Anyway, enough of that nonsense and back to the project.