Bad Powder Coating
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Bad Powder Coating
I picked up my tank and fenders from the powder coaters on Thursday and started to put it all back together on Friday after work, and well first off they told me 2 weeks or less and ended up being 4 weeks before I got it back, as I was looking at the rear fender I noticed a lot of little indents in the rear fender. Before the fender was removed it had chopper blue paint on it and it was almost flawless, there was no dents in it and was smooth all over. Im going to take the fender back and see if they can make it right. What would cause these small indents all over the rear fender? I knew I shoulda sent it all to Joe in the first place.
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Iv heard nothing but good from him so next time I need powder coating done its going to him. I live in Columbus ohio and theres a place here that did some work for that extreme 4x4 show on spike tv, and it turned out good so I figured I would give it a shot and it backfired lol
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Powder coating will only hide the very smallest existing imperfections in the sheet metal.. Did you strip the fenders down to bare metal before you took them to have powder coated to see if there was any dents in the metal?
If not I'm sure all they did was possibly clean them then they sand blasted them cleaned them again and layed on the powder and into the ovens they went... No stamped sheet metal is perfect out of the gate they all have some distortion that will need to be addressed before any top coat paint or powder doesn't matter..
I strip all my tins down to bare steal and hit them with a primer and block sand them by hand to find the divets, dents, ripples, any unwanted imperfections even if the existing paint came from the factory and it looked like glass, you get the picture, then you need to work the metal to remove the imperfection as much as possible no fillers (ie bondo) if your going with powder. More so with powder coating as its not as easy to hide (fill in) the problem spot...
Depending on how deep your indents are they may be able to work the metal lightly and block sand it and recoat it... Good luck with it..
If not I'm sure all they did was possibly clean them then they sand blasted them cleaned them again and layed on the powder and into the ovens they went... No stamped sheet metal is perfect out of the gate they all have some distortion that will need to be addressed before any top coat paint or powder doesn't matter..
I strip all my tins down to bare steal and hit them with a primer and block sand them by hand to find the divets, dents, ripples, any unwanted imperfections even if the existing paint came from the factory and it looked like glass, you get the picture, then you need to work the metal to remove the imperfection as much as possible no fillers (ie bondo) if your going with powder. More so with powder coating as its not as easy to hide (fill in) the problem spot...
Depending on how deep your indents are they may be able to work the metal lightly and block sand it and recoat it... Good luck with it..