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Re: paint over powder coat ???

To: JNiolon@uss.com, shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: paint over powder coat ???
From: Mike Rambour <mikey@b2systems.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:50:23 -0700
At 02:55 PM 4/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>My latest project is having a old porch glider blasted and powder coated...
>of course I can only coat one color.  there are areas on the glider back
>that I'd like to have a contrasting color.   I've been told that you can
>scuff up the powder coat and spray paint it...,  ???   any knowledge on
>this out there ???   will plain old Krylon rattle can enamel stick if the

  yes it will stick to it just fine if you scuff it up.

   But I question why only one color powder coat ?  Are you doing it 
yourself ? if you are then its easy to do several colors, it just takes 
more time.  You can use heat proof tape (Eastwoods has it but I am sure 
others do to for a lot less money) and/or aluminium foil to mask off 
areas  Then partially cook the first color, remove the tape, mask off the 
areas already coated and re-shoot.  This time do a full cure.  Remove the 
tape from the powder coated part prior to doing a full cure or it will 
leave marks in the powder, that is the tricky part to do it without 
knocking off powder that you just shot.

  If a shop is doing it for you then I can understand the cost reasons for 
only one color, so scuff it up and shoot some paint on it.  I have done 
that when I didn't have the powder color I wanted and it worked just fine.

         mike

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