Clear Powder Coat Aluminum

These cast aluminum parts can really dress up your engine bay once powder coated but they can also be very difficult to get 100 clean when you try to powder.

Clear powder coat aluminum. Cast aluminum parts can be one of the most fickle to powder coat. This last option would be the brightest by far but is difficult and very expensive and must be done perfectly and the wheels are then quite delicate. If all swatches are in stock it will ship in 1 3 business days via ups overnight. I have a 6061 aluminum extrusion that we are sanding and applying a clear powder coat to it looks as if sometimes the heat from the powder coat oven bakes something out of the extrusion and leaves black spots under the clear coat.

Clear powder coating are used quit extensively by automotive wheel manufacturers are durable and can be very cost effective. On modern automobiles the majority of the bolt on parts and even some of the major engine parts are cast aluminum. Clear coats come in all different types but acrylic thermosetting powder is the most commonly used type of powder for clear coats. This is why organic coatings for aluminum should be factory applied.

Swatches are powder coated aluminum panels for accuracy. This can take up to two weeks. Here is a look at what clear powder coating is exactly and how you can use it. The performance of an organic coating paints or powders depends on the pretreatment resin and pigmentation.

With aluminum the pretreatment is of utmost importance. Will chromate conversion coating stop black spots on powder coated sanded aluminum. Organic coatings paints powder coatings. If your order contains an out of stock swatch we will create that swatch for you then ship your entire swatch order.

They should be reasonably bright but won t rival chrome plating. If it is a good coater i wouldn t worry about it. A clear powder coat is okay or polishing the aluminum and clear coating it. Resins are often the weak link in an organic coating system.

Clear powder coating have not yet gained recognition in this area primarily due to aesthetic reasons. Powder coating application requires special electrostatic spray guns and an oven to melt and cure the powder. I have seen polished aluminum powder coated with clear and it looked great. Join date sep 2010 posts 530.

If it doesn t then the powder coater didn t do the job right.