How do You powder coat an Easter Egg

[cadman]

Although I am very busy, I was thinking. How would you go about powder painting an Easter Egg? For all the engineering minds out there here is the challenge. If I took a raw egg, and heated it up with a heat gun. #1 would it crack? #2 If it didn't crack, would I be able to apply powder paint to it? #3 If it didn't crack,and I applied powder paint to it, would the inside of the egg be hard boiled? Well let's see if I can get an answer from some super engineer types. Dave(Vodkaman) are you there? Now the question is what would happen if I took a hard boiled egg and did the same thing. Well I'm looking for some honest answers. No I'm not crazy yet, just maybe a little tired...............This is going to be interesting.

[Vodkaman]

Ted.

It would probably be best to remove the contents of the egg, by blowing.

Make a small pin hole top and bottom and blow. Tape may help when making the holes or maybe a 1mm dia drill would work.

Once the egg is dry/empty, I don't think you will have any problems.

Dave

[redg8r]

Now thats thinking outside the yolk......... "ba dom dom ching!"

[kelly]

I grew up on an egg farm. Removing the yoke and egg white will be your best bet. As vodka mentioned hole in the top and bottom and blow. We had a carver that would buy the double yokes from us for carving and air brushing( The double yokes were a lot bigger). When he was painting them he would cut two holes with a high speed drill in the bottom(dental drill). Use a coffee straw with some kind of caulking dyed about 1/4 in. up (to seal the hole) so he could blow out the contents. One more trick is to get a wire put it on a drill and scramble the egg before trying to blow it out. Cant Waite to see the end result cadman.

[akriverrat]

water boils at 212 degrees which is a little cool for powder coating but what id do is get your water and eggs on the burner and right after the water starts to boil give the egg three or four minutes to get it to temp then take out, dry, and use the copper egg holder to dip in the fluid bed. might have to go over it with the heat gun easily to help it flow out then bake it off at the desired temp and time. remind me to not have any of your deviled eggs right after easter

[cadman]

remind me to not have any of your deviled eggs right after easter

Now that's funny:lol:. You know what they say an idle mind is dangerous. I don't know if I will have the time to try this experiment I conjured up, but as I was pouring jigs one day I just thought bout this. My wife told me I was nuts, and that I must be inhaling too much powder paint dust. But you know I might be on to something. Hmmmmm.

[rhahn427]

The egg shell must get to about 325-350 degrees I think for powder paint to melt and stick to the egg shell. I think it would be hard to get it to that temp with the egg inside because it would have a tendency to absorb the heat, therefore it needs to be blown out and the blow holes remain open incase there is any moisture left that would expand and explode the heated shell.

I'm not sure that the temp resistance is of an egg shell but I believe it would be higher if an even heat was administered on all sides at once. That would mean an oven instead of a heat gun.

Then there would be the coating of the egg with powder paint. Putting a hot eggshell in a cool fluid bed of powderpaint may also crack the shell so you may have to warm the paint and pour it on the shell ............

Just some thoughts ........ I think you need to research the properties of egg shell to get a better idea.