powder coating anything looks really neat when it's first done and, I
suspect, it's tougher than paint.
However, when it does get damaged and water gets in it rusts away happily -
out of sight - until one day great chunks of powder coating lift off and
you've a right fine mess underneath.
My way, these days, is to clean up to bare metal in whatever way you prefer,
then a couple of coats of redlead (do you still have that in the States?)
then a coat of primer then top coat of paint.
Damage to paint becomes obvious much sooner and can be rubbed down and
touched up easier than powder coating.
Best Cheers
Frank
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----- Original Message -----
From: Faure, Marin <Marin.Faure@PSS.Boeing.com>
To: 'Land Rover Mail Group' <LRO@Works.Team.Net>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:16 AM
Subject: LRO: Powder coating question
> How tough is powder coating? At some point in the
> not-too-distant future I need to have my SIII's wheels
> sandblasted and repainted as a couple of them have some
> surface rust and the paint on all of them is pretty sorry. My
> initial thought was to have all five wheels sandblasted, and
> then I would primer them and paint them with a commercial
> spray color that I've used before that more or less resembles
> Limestone (my entire vehicle and the wheels were Limestone
> from the factory).
>
> Several years ago, when I was first contemplating doing this,
> a friend of mine in N. California who was in the Land Rover
> parts business but isn't anymore suggested powder coating
> instead of painting. I located an outfit in Tacoma that did
> powder coating, but for various reasons I never got around
> to actually doing anything about it.
>
> Now that my SIII needs new tires, I thought it might be a
> good opportunity to spruce up the wheels at the same time.
> The advantage of painting them is that it's easy to touch them
> up if the paint gets scratched off. The advantage (so far as
> I know) of powder coating is that it looks better and is maybe
> tougher than paint.
>
> BUT..... can a commercial powder coating company match
> Limestone, or at least come close enough to where I don't
> care about the difference, and what do you do if a wheel gets
> whacked hard enough to damage the powder coating? In the
> opinion of those of you who've had experience with both, is
> powder coating wheels better than painting them, or visa versa?
> Thanks.
> ___________________________
> C. Marin Faure
> (original owner)
> 1973 Land Rover Series III-88
> 1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
> Seattle
>
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