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Road Warrior
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Powder coating
I posted this else where and was directed here for JRK. Feel free to add your 2bits if ya want. Thinkin ahead to next winter and might recolour my 04 FXD. Was wondering if anyone has powder coated thier tins and what they thought of this opposed to paint?
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I powdered mine. The rear fender of my bike looks bad around the edges. the powdercoat settled there a bit and created a lip instead of a nice smooth edge. The powdercoat is actually difficult to maintain. Mine is gloss black. The gloss black seems to get swirl marks and surface scratchs as easily as paint. Thing is, the swirl marks are much more difficult to get out than a paint with clearcoat. Now, I highly recommend only having someone that can really powdercoat good do your tins. JRK is probably your best choice to send the tins to at this point. Joe also had a tremendous choice of colors. I have become so tired of all the work involved in keeping up my gloss black, I have started in on painting the tins semi flat black(denim). Not to mention I can't stand the way my rear fender looks with the edges the way they are.
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I have not done my tins yet, but I do have my serveral things including my rims, spokes and hubs done and I will say this, if I have my tins done i would have them coated. I on the other hand would have them done in flat black though.
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I wanted mine flat originally. Problem I had was the flat my powdercoater had was too flat, and the satin, too much gloss. If someone has a close match to denim black in powdercoat, this would be awesome.
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Have a few spare fenders to practice on. Was thinking of going with a bobber rear fender anyway a ******** on a cellphone rolled into me at a stop sign last year and put a ripple in my rear fender have to look for it but I know it's there and find it irritating. Will definitly clearcoat the lot after. Was thinking of this colour.
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Acccording to some harley press release pages I found, the denim black tins are all sprayed, then cleared with a powder matte clear? That sounds kinda weird, but Im just now getting my feet wet with the powder coating, but do plan on experimenting with tins! The stuff, I've done, has held up great, looks great, and easy to maintain! No orange peel, or nothing! I'm digging it! But I bought a nice gun also!
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