Subject: Re: To Powder Coat or not?
Author: Skip & Jane
Date: Feb 16, 2004, 3:15 PM
Post ID: 1716059487
through my experience with powdercoaters I have 3 things I would recommend.
1. Turn around time. I had some parts sandblasted and dropped them off the
be coated. A few days later, I was dropping off a few more parts and see my
bare metal parts, now with surface rust laying in a box. I am sure they were
not going to reblast the parts before coating. I would wait till they were
going to able to coat them, that day before drooping them off as rust will
effect the powdercoating.
2. Make sure your swing arm holes, motor mount holes, shock mounts, and
center stand holes are plugged. The best thing I gave found is to take a
foam hair curler wrap it with duct tape and pull it through the holes. If
not it will be hell when you go to put the bolts back in. Believe me I
know.
3. Make sure they do not put the coating on to thick as it will crack. So
ask if they have done bike frames, and if possible ask around for examples.
I know the hard way. I had a BSA frame done by the cheapest shop in town and
it was a mess. It cracked in places because it was to thick, and I had to
file and cut the coating away to get the bolts in the frame, and other
problems. The problem about a bad coating job is you just can sand it off
and do over.
Skip & Jane Kologiski
Bird at The Wheel Vintage Motorcycle Stuff
http://home.earthlink.net/~kkologiski/bird.html
Central Florida Reps for the MGNOC (Moto Guzzi National Owners Club).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott J. Grupe" <sjgr-@direcway.com>
To: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: To Powder Coat or not?
| Gonna take all my parts and frame to powder coat shop this week. scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim R" <tf-@gte.net> To: <Loopfram-@topica.com> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 8:25 AM Subject: To Powder Coat or not?
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