{"id":100663,"date":"2018-04-01T18:28:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T00:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-durable-finish-for-metal-objects-comes-to-cortez\/"},"modified":"2018-04-01T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T00:28:15","slug":"a-durable-finish-for-metal-objects-comes-to-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-durable-finish-for-metal-objects-comes-to-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"A durable finish for metal objects comes to Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:3ceb2246-a3e0-4a97-8051-772cc8795a3c --><\/p>\n<p>Sheldon Randall opened STR Custom Coatings in August after seeing companies ship items out of state to be powder-coated.<\/p>\n<p>Randall\u2019s powder-coating process starts with sandblasting to give it a surface for the powder to adhere to. According to Randall\u2019s wife, Tiffany Randall, the process is more environmentally friendly because no liquid chemicals are involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can powder-coat anything that is metal,\u201d Tiffany Randall said, such as rusty old patio furniture or signs and metal items with nicks. \u201cIt is just a more durable finish, so it will last longer, and it won\u2019t fade or crack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheldon Randall started coating items from his home before opening his business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes out of the gun onto the metal, it is charged with a positive charge \u2026 so all the powder sticks to metal,\u201d Sheldon Randall said. \u201cThen I put it in the oven and bake it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strcustomcoatings.com\/%3Fgclid%3DEAIaIQobChMI4P2j08GX2gIVirXACh3k_QifEAAYASAAEgKjkPD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STR Custom Coatings<\/a> is at 1754 Sagebrush Circle in Cortez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coatings opened in August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742,5735],"tags":[21,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-100663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100663"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=100663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}