Josh, I phoned Posies Monday and asked them that questions, if the heat would hurt them, especially since this will be the second go-round for each leaf. They said as long as you don't exceed 400 degrees you are ok. I asked the PC what temp they use and they said 400 and when they do springs they do a "slow bake" whatever that means. But they said they do springs all the time so they take that precaution.

Based on that info we took them back to be PC'd and are supposed to pick them up this PM. These are the last pieces holding us back from reassembling the frame back to a roller. That is our plan for this weekend, to get back to where we were 2 months ago.

Bill, we are happy to put this one behind us too. There is an upside though. All the grinding and refilling has left the frame a lot better than the first time around, and we like the look of the parts without the clear on top........more natural somehow.

In a weird, related story, Dan came home the other day and told me he had to go to the eye doctor. He has been getting some irritation in his left eye. The Doctor started looking at his eye and said "wow, this is very strange, there is some little piece of something in there, but I've never seen anything like that...........it is small and jagged, and CLEAR." They had to grind it out, and when he got it out it ended up being a small piece of clear powder coating! Dan had worn goggles last Sunday while blowing clear powder coating dust off of the springs before we took them back for recoating, and evidently a small piece got into his eye.

I guess we are going to have to sweep and scrub the shop down to get rid of that stuff.

Don