Thread: PC or No PC??

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I grew up in Mn. Mn & WI have the worst salt & chemical use on street than any state, all others are just catching up. Your two sticks of TNT is ant piss to true salt use! Not JK
Military doesn't work on the road where the salt is as much as a car or truck does.
Drive your quad in the ocean a couple of times, then tell me how the scrathes held up! not out back in the sand.
I think a good paint will last longer, once it scratches it won't be held in to grow as well as under paint, paint will chip off easier and powder coating won't.

My .02 worth! Pat

As I've mentioned in other posts, we are starting to have our stuff power coated whenever possible. Don't have enough on the road experience yet to know how it will hold up in the long haul, but I sure like the ease of having stuff done and the final look.

Our PC guy does work for some boat manufacturers like NorTech and Apache Boats. He does their rails, swim platforms, and other parts that are subjected to saltwater immersion constantly. (Look up Nortech and check out the prices on their boats...............not cheap! ) We also are seeing more and more very expensive center console and sport fish boats with the towers, rails, etc all powdercoated.............looks very high tech and classy. Here are the Nortech boats I am talking about: http://www.nor-techboats.com/

Last week the PC guy brought his own boat into our marina to have us fix a running problem. It is sitting on a PC trailer that he did 3 years ago and it looks like brand new. Not one spot of rust or bleed through. So, based on all of that, I can only assume that ours will hold up well, and suspect, as StreetWerks said, properly applied PC holds up extremely well.

Don

please keep in mind this is a sample tile that I shot about a year ago.
it goes to shows, and get handled alot, so it's a little beat up.
This tile has not been wet sanded of buffed, never waxed this is how it came out of the oven.
Single stage coating, wet black.
Don't mind my ugly face, I just wanted to show how reflective, and smooth it is.
A slight amount of orange peel, less then my 03 Chevy truck

First, resize you pictures!

Second, I'm not going to start a my ways better than your way arguement!!!!

But rspears asked the question:

"any chip, scratch or other flaw, even sharp inside corners where angles meet, provides a point where moisture enters, and rust forms between the PC and the base metal, getting worse over time until sheets of PC can be stripped off to reveal active surface rust. The protective skids and rock bumpers on my Jeep have been perfect examples of this process, and are now coated with satin black Rustoleum which can be renewed easily as needed."


STREETWERKZ said:
I used to ride a sports quad HARD, clear 60 ft table tops, jump off 5-10 ft hills, and generally beat the piss out of the quad, and myself and the powder would hold up just fine. that's not to say I didn't get scratches, but no doubt it took alot more to scratch the powder, than it would in paint.

the process we use is the process the military requires for powder coated part for use in combat. This way it can get a full life of use, and abuse, again up to 2 sticks of TNT (jk)

NO finish will protect metal that has been scared to the bare metal.
One of the common misconceptions is that powder coat will survive a nuclear bomb, when in fact it will only withstand 2 sticks of tnt


And my answer still is, unless you live in the snow belt like we do and it snows in November and thaws out in April and we have snow and ice, salt & chemicals the whole time, Not water spray tests, Ice & snow cuts like driving on a rocky gravel road cutting into you car/frame as you drive day after day you will get cut and gouges in the coating or paint, and then no matter how much you wash it, you'll never get the salt & chemicals off and it's already rusting! Now that you have that going, it's only going to grow & grow, so with paint you sand it, and touch it up, But! if you have it powder coated, you can't just do that. I don't care how good you put it on, if it gets a scratch, the salt will grow rust under it!

I never said anything about the way it looks, we have our porducts powder coated all the time, and once you have a defect in the coating... it's there for good! paint, you just touch it up!

And thats what rspears asked, not how it looks!

Pat