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What is Powder Coating?
Attributes of powder coating
What are the advantages of Powder Coating?
Is Powder Coating better than liquid paint?
Do you use any reclaimed powder?
What kinds of finishes are available with
powder coating?
Are custom colors available?
Can parts be coated with clear Powder Coating?
What if I scratch or ding my parts once I
bring them home? How can I repair them?
How should the surface be prepped?
What does sandblasting do, and what is
glass beading?
- Powder Coating is a
dry finishing process used on a wide range of materials and products. Finely
ground particles of pigment and resin are electro statically charged and
sprayed onto products to be coated. The parts to be coated are electrically
grounded so the charged particles adhere to them until melted and fused into
a solid coating in a curing oven.
- tough
- good looking
- durable
- scratch-resistant
- high-quality
- wide color choices + customs blends
- versatile
- Powder coating gives consumers, businesses, and industry
one of the most economical, longest-lasting, and most color-durable quality
finishes available.
- Powder coated surfaces are more resistant to chipping,
scratching, fading, and wearing than other finishes. Color selection is
virtually unlimited with high and low gloss, metallic, and clear finishes
available. And colors stay bright and vibrant longer. Texture selections
range from smooth surfaces to a wrinkled or matte finish, and rough textures
designed for hiding surface imperfections.
- It's tough. It looks great. And it lasts a long, long
time. Powder coating is a superior finish that's found on hundreds of
products you come in contact with each day. It makes products durable,
attractive, and scratch-resistant, too.
- Is Powder Coating better than liquid
paint?
- Powder coating is applied thicker than liquid paint and
powder coated surfaces are more resistant to chipping, scratching, fading,
and wearing than liquid paint and other finishes.
- NEVER. Reclaimed powder can introduce all kinds of
defects and contamination.
- What kinds of finishes are
available with powder coating?
- With powder coating, color selection is virtually
unlimited with high and low gloss, metallic, and clear finishes available.
Colors stay bright and vibrant longer. Texture selections range from smooth
surfaces to a wrinkled or matte finish, and rough textures designed for
hiding surface imperfections are also available. Standard coatings commonly
used include fluorescent, metallic, textured, hammertone, wrinkle, candy
color/transparents, and of course all old world standard color finishes. All
of these are available in flat, matte, semi and high gloss.
- Virtually any color, texture and gloss level can be
custom matched. Due to the process involved in manufacturing powder resin,
custom colors can be expensive unless the requirement is large.
- Can parts be coated with clear Powder
Coating?
- Yes! We offer clear powder coatings that can be applied
over polished brass, aluminum and stainless – such as wheels, plumbing
fixtures and lighting fixtures!
- What if I scratch or ding my parts
once I bring them home? How can I repair them?
- Once you have your parts powder coated, you will never be
able to have repairs (chips, scratches, etc.) redone in powder, without
tanking it apart, stripping and recoating. You can have a small touch up kit
made by your local automotive paint supplier "made to match" as close as
possible. Remember, special effect powders will not be able to be
duplicated!
- Leave this up to us! We do not like to coat over anything
on the parts already (especially primer!) so don’t waste your time or money
trying to "get it ready".
- Sandblasting ‘etches’ the surface of the metal, creating
a solid mechanical bond adhesion during the curing process. It also cleanses
the metal. We use very fine angular aluminum oxide media because it gives
the best results for powder coating adhesion. Picture in your mind that the
type of etch this media leaves behind would be similar to ‘sharp peaks
(hills) and valleys’.
Glass beading uses a round glass media that ‘pocks’ the surface other than
impinging the surface. This kind of media is used more for aesthetic
purposes than functional uses. Glass bead media does not provide the best
‘anchor tooth’ for best powder coating adhesion. Glass beading a surface
(especially aluminum) reflects the light to your eyes better, and makes
metal appear whiter or brighter.
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