Thread: Power Coating

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Streetwerks brings up a very important point.........make sure your powder coater is familiar with how to apply the clear. We had 46 parts powdercoated (one of them being a car frame) and had clear put over the black. As we were assembling things we kept hearing crunching as we tightened up bolts. The crunching was the clear cracking . We actually were able to take our fingers or an air hose and remove lots of the clear..........it just peeled off in sheets!

Our powder coater has done a lot of stuff for us, but this was the first clear coat, and we suspect he over cooked the black before adding the clear. From what we hear, you have to slightly underbake the first color coat, then let it fully cure when you do the clear on top. (Streetwerks can correct me if that is wrong) He did step up to the plate and sandblasted everything back to bare metal and redid it.........BUT NO CLEAR THIS TIME OR EVER AGAIN. It came out great the second time, but did cost us quite a bit of money and time as we had to resurface the entire frame with Tiger Drylac EPO, and sand it smooth again before he redid the second coating.

If you get someone with Streetwerks saavy on how to do the clear you will be fine, but here in Ft Myers we only have so many choices......actually one.

Don

Pick up the latest issue of Street Rodder. There is an article called "Spray-on Shine" that you might be interested in. It is a spray-on chrome that looks like it may give you another alternative to chrome plating.