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Hi, Was just wondering if you can powder coat plastic ? I know it involves an oven in the process but is it a mild heat to bake the powder or much higher in temp ?. And if you can do you get the same sort of finish you might expect from say ali or mild steel ?
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No, no, no can't powder coat plastics as far as I'm aware it involves magnetic fields and the like so plastic doesn't do the job.
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What is powder coating?
Powder coating is by far the youngest of the surface finishing techniques in common use today. It was first used in Australia about 1967. Powder coating is the technique of applying dry paint to a part. The final cured coating is the same as a 2-pack wet paint. In normal wet painting such as house paints, the solids are in suspension in a liquid carrier, which must evaporate before the solid paint coating is produced. In powder coating, the powdered paint may be applied by either of two techniques.
There are two main types of powder available to the surface finisher:
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Thanks guys, plan B it is then, off to halfords to get some aerosols
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Nice 1 stewie, you got the answer to a questions i was kinda going to ask, guess i'll have to try and spray my rims black as the front is sum what plastic. and the back is an odd kind of steel, so im not sure of it'll take the powercoat.
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Or you could just go and find the local chavs that do all the graffiti
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I used to have a big container of powder coat, you would heat the metal thing up with a torch and then dunk it in this powder, and then pull it back out.
Let it cool down... and viola. Power coated. |
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Grinch I hope you copied and pasted that from somewhere?!
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no, you cant
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