How long to paint your chassis?

[Rik178m]

Howmuch would it cost to powdercoat a chassis? Guessing it would need blasting first?

Hammerite is pants! Never used it before doing my gearbox but the finish was useless. After 2 coats I could still see the undercoat! Thought I was doing something wrong.

[DaddyA]

Hi,

took me a while as well.

Thorough clean up of all surface rust, then degreased.

Two tins of etch primer (light dusting), dried overnight, then a good coat of zinc primer - if using this I would definately ensure you have good ventilation. Not with just the garage door open - might start seeing things!!

Left that to dry for awhile, had to work and then 1 coat of chassis black. It does need a bit more black as there as been scratches along the way but looks ok.

[AshG]

ronnie i got my epoxy from rust.co.uk

[spud69]

I use a powder coater in Hartlepool, £100 for a full chassis and they have all the degreasing and cleaning tanks to. Was fun watching them fit a chassis through them though.

Chassis turned out really well but you must make sure you have completely finished on the chassis. The powder coating gets inside all the rails and coats all the unseen bits too. If worst happens and you need to re weld you can always touch it up with hammerite and you can hardly tell.

If you add up all the cost of your primer, hammerite, brushes, thinners it ain't cheap.

Just my thought......AndyH

[adrianreeve]

Mine's £160 for chassis, wishbones, uprights, rollbar, pedal box, all the little odds and sods you find that need doing, including engine pulleys etc. and that includes blasting them before coating. If you go for a common colour, such as satin black, most powder coaters will do the work on a time spent basis, so if they are doing some other work in the same colour, they'll put yours through at the same time. It saves them down time cleaning the gun and changing colours etc, and the saving will be passed onto you.

Like spud said, once you add the cost of good paint, prep etc, powdercoating becomes good value. If you get a good finish, it will outlast anything else. Be warned though, if your powdercoater doesnt prep properly, and the coating chips, rust will form under the coating ver quickly.

Hope that helps

Adrian