Improve the attraction of powder to your parts while powder
coating.
If you are powder coating a metal part, it must be grounded. The ground is what
attracts the powder to the part. The better the ground, the more efficient your
powder coating gun can work, especially when spraying multiple coats or
intricate parts. Often a
powder coating gun
or the guns control box will come with a small 18-gauge ground wire and a mini
alligator clip that you can connect to your part to ground it. I will call this
the "stock" ground. The stock ground continues through the control box, through
the small gauge wire to plug into a wall outlet, and then finally reaches ground
after it travels through your buildings electrical. This is not a sufficient
ground for proper powder coating. No matter how good of gun you have, you need
to install a DEDICATED GROUNDING ROD.