Powder coating question

chilipapa
chilipapa Posts: 33
edited January 2013 in The cake stop
I once read that it had a detrimental effect on aluminum frames, is this true?

IIRC it was something to do with the heat.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    LFGSS is a better place to look for that kind of question.

    Here wouldn't be a bad start: http://www.lfgss.com/thread17439.html


    I'd imagine not though, given that aluminium always has an oxide layer.
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  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Powder coating 'curing' temperature is about 200 degrees for 10 minutes. Whereas heat treating of aluminium alloys requires the frame to be heat-soaked for a far longer period - unless the powder-coater got the process wrong and the frame was constructed from thin-walled 6000 series alloys. Most aluminium alloy frames are made from 7005 series
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  • Lycra-Byka
    Lycra-Byka Posts: 292
    We powder coat at work using aluminium parts/sheets as thin as .9mm no problems.
  • chilipapa
    chilipapa Posts: 33
    Thank you.
    Nice link BTW, some fantastic paint jobs there.
    Ridley Supercross the cross bike


    E W Hannington the vintage bike.
    Trek X-Caliber the MTB.
  • Yossie
    Yossie Posts: 2,600
    Load of bollards - 99% of m/bike parts are ali and they powder coat no problem at all.

    I'd have no hesitation at all to powdercoat a pushie frame.

    Pop onto Triple S' web site to peruse prices for excellent work.

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