Posted by MoparNorm on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 at 0:11AM :
In Reply to: Re: Powder Coating posted by Todd Wilson on Monday, September 03, 2001 at 11:37PM :
Todd,
One thing about powder coating is you have to have everything that you will ever drill or weld, fabricated onto the frame BEFORE you coat. With the Eastwood kit it might be possible to touch up areas which you have drilled, but I have a custom color, Dodge Truck Red, that I'm sure Eastwood does not carry. POR 15 is not a quality finish coating so it is not comparable to a Powder Coating finish. POR 15 does make other products that can be applied to the POR 15 rust preventer that does have a finished quality to it. Powder Coating IS flexible, at least more so that steel. I suppose a poor powder coat job could concievably get rust under it, but that would be rare. You see, a true powder coat is a polymer that is blasted into the metal at high pressure, then melted to flow together into the properly prepped surface. If a job was poorly installed it might just be coating the surface and allow rust under it, BUT a correctly installed coating WILL NOT allow rust to form. However in the "rust belt" states with that ridiculous road salting the salt may eventually get into the coating on a poorly installed job. I have had truck beds powder coated in the '70's that are still in service and still look good. I have one utillity box that has been on 3 Dodges and one ferd, for over 600,000 miles and it has outlived them all.
Lastly, the coating will blast off just as easily as any other coating if you use the proper media.
MoparNorm
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