Subject: Re: To Powder Coat or not?
Author: Mike
Date: Feb 16, 2004, 3:28 PM
Post ID: 1716059595
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From: "Karl Kologiski" <kkolo-@earthlink.net>
To: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: To Powder Coat or not?
| through my experience with powdercoaters I have 3 things I would |
1. Turn around time. I had some parts sandblasted and dropped them off |
| be coated. A few days later, I was dropping off a few more parts and see |
| bare metal parts, now with surface rust laying in a box. I am sure they |
| 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 |
I know the hard way. I had a BSA frame done by the cheapest shop in town |
| 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?
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