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paint or powder coating
hi,
i have just about completed my wishbones and i was wondering what would be the best finish paint or powder coating. which would last longer and look the best??? cheers steve. |
Powder coating Pros: looks good, reasonably durable, hides all manor of sins.
Cons: can fade in direct light after a while, will rust under surface if chipped. will not show cracks in welds, can be exspensive. Painting Pros: can be done at home , can be perfect colour match to other parts, can be touched up later, if using 2k can be cut back and polished, cheap. Cons: can be nasty to work with espesh 2k, all parts need to properly degreased and cleaned using potenialy nasty stuff, can look a dogs dinner if care not taken ie runs and sags, easy to get bits of crap stuck in wet paint. Feel free and add and edit to these lists. |
I have just painted mine.
I cleaned them all up, and put 2 coats of hammerite "smooth finish primer & top coat" in one stuff. Loads of colors avaiable, and I am well impressed with the results. As Phil says it can run very easily, so nice thin coating. Cheaper way of doing it too. I will have pics up of mine next week. I will be doing the chassis in the same stuff too. Joe. |
For what it is worth, I painted mine with Epoxy Mastic
Here's the stuff I used Epoxy Mastic 121 It can be used with brush, roller or for best looking finish, spray gun :) Dries to a Satin Black finish & can be over coated with almost any other paint. Hard as bleeding nails & although the surface will mark if scratched, you'll not remove the paint. Formulated to be used direct to a lightly rusted surface but sticks well on clean metal if the surface is well keyed ;) Powder coat is great until it gets dammaged & once it starts to grow rust under the surface, it will fall off in great big lumps. I guess it's purely a matter of personal prefernce, nothing on a car chassis lasts forever ;) |
Bonzo a couple of questions,
Did you have to use a primer? How much have you used to do the chassis Ect? Were the supplied thinners enough to spray or did you need more? |
Hi Steve
No, the epoxy mastic is formulated to be painted on bare metal ( Bit like hammerite was in the good old days ) I bought the smallest size pack, so far have painted all of my wishbones, rear uprights & driveshafts, still have just under half a tin left ;) Had I not already painted my chassis with Galvafroid & Red hammerite :o :o I would have got the larger pack & done the whole lot. It doen't take that much thinners to thin it down .... Tis like treacle when first mixed but the addition of a little thinners really does the trick Hope that helps mate :) |
Yeah that helps alot cheers Ronnie.
On another note, I painted my wish bones with red oxide and then black exterior gloss. Took 2 weeks to go off and is ok looking but not great. I wouldn't advise doing it that way. |
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