There are many companies out there that offer powder coating but there is a clear difference between those who service the manufacturing sector versus a custom shop. A manufacturing plant normally uses a conveyor system to move products through a washing station and into an oven.
Employees are stationed at different parts of the conveyor, some loading the hooks with your rims and other unloading them. Because they are placed in a lineup of hundreds, sometimes thousands of items, it may be overlooked. At a shop like ours where we only do small runs, we use a batch oven. We only load one set of rims into our oven at a time meaning quality control is higher.
The same people prepping and loading your rims into the oven and the same ones who take them out for inspection. A custom shop will also be able to accommodate your colour requests as many large scale powder coating operations only carry a limited array of colours because their customers bring thousands of pieces at a time.
At Rice Rocket the applicators are the same people at the service counter answering your questions. Because of this, you can expect to be paying a marked up price, and worse of all have to wait a long time for your parts to be done. When it exchanges more than one set of hands, you can expect the turnaround time to be higher.
Even more inconvenient is the quality. Ride of the Month Winner. View attachment Click to expand Which is why the cost of media blasting at the powder coater was money well spent. I do powdercoating as a hobby so I have some personal experience for as far as a DIY at home solution. I had to once strip a part I made a mistake on. I did 2 coats, first coat was the base charcoal grey, second coat gloss clear on top.
Sandblasting with glass media which is all I had access too did not do great. I tried aircraft stripper and it was fairly weak. What I had the best luck with was CRC indistrial strength gasket remover.
Sprayed it on, left it for 30 minutes and was able to scrape off both coats easily with a screwdriver. Then touched up with the bead blaster. Was a pain, but would have been a lot worse with aircraft stripper or glass bead basting.
Gunnersmate TJ Enthusiast. My powder coat guy uses this its Called B17 Benco BIndustrial Coatings Remover - Benco Sales Benco Sales is the exclusive manufacturer of B17 stripper, the fastest and safest way to remove powder coat and OEM finishes from aluminum and steel wheels B17 was developed specifically to remove tough finishes from automotive wheels and parts prior to powdercoating or painting.
B17 is the Gunnersmate said:. XCRN said:. I heard its only available for purchase by commercial customers only, no DIYers. Mrholland TJ Enthusiast. Good luck!! I used to work at a powder coating shop many years ago. Whenever we would get a part that was powder coated already, nine times out of ten, we would have to send it to a professional stripper to have the coating removed. We would try to put them in the sand blaster cabinet, and sometimes the coating would come off, sometimes it wouldn't.
When it did come off, it took an extremely long time to break through the coating. IMO, send it to a stripper, I'm not sure how that would affect the anodizing though Jonbot, Do you know if the paint stripping shop you sent the parts to used a chemical process to remove the powder coating?
Fuchs wheels aren't powder coated. I'm not even sure they are anodized. My brother owns a wheel remanufacturing buisness and won't even give people quotes on polishing Fuchs wheels because you never know how long it will take to strip the old coating.
Media blasting is easy to do with a good industrial blasting cabinet but then it takes hours and hours to sand the surface back to something that can be polished. He has tried sending the wheels out to be anodize stripped and they say that they can't get the stuff off.
Whatever it is, it's nasty stuff. He's tried aircraft stripper with some luck, but it takes many many treatments. Bottom line I would love if someone could give an definitive answer on what the black coating is so I can help him out. Aircraft stripper will remove powder coat methylene chloride when I was powder coating my fan I needed to strip the pc due to out gassing, several times, pita of course.
Different types of PC may take more applications of stripper but will remove it. Do not media blast the wheels since the aluminium may get damaged. Be sure to give it a good and thick coat of aircraft stripper and be patient.
Even powder coating will come right off. Otherwise, you can have the coating burned off in a professional burnoff oven. This process turns the coating to ash but does not affect the underlying metal.
This is safe for alloy wheels. Good luck! Originally Posted by gshiwota. Originally Posted by frankc. Paint or powder coat, the aircraft stripper will remove it.
It will not harm the anodizing or the aluminum if the anodizing is gone. If it is PC then it just take longer for it to start bubbling up. Do any autopart store carry them? I purchased it from Home Depot paint supplies. Aircraft stripper is the generic name. The brand name I bought was called Rock Miracle. It took two applications. The first removed the bulk of it and the second cleaned up the remainder.
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