Powder coating / Ceramic Coating bike frames.

[Sbloomer]

Looking for guidance.

 

I have a couple of bike frames I would like to strip down and recoat.

 

I was thinking of having them powder coated

 

Ideally I’d like to keep the original color of one frame but I’m told it’s not possible to do that color in powder coating, and I need to do that with paint.

 

Another frame I want to do in matt charcoal and the last one in gloss white.

 

Then someone suggested ceramic coatings are better and more durable (but I have read that it’s thinner and more prone to visible scratching.

 

What are people’s thoughts on powder and ceramic coatings (as supposed to respray)?

 

And where is there somebody that you can recommend in Cape Town?

 

Arms and legs apply [emoji23]

[Pulse]

Are they all aluminium frames?

[Sbloomer]

Are they all aluminium frames?

Two steel and one alu.

 

I know the material they use for blasting the frames is different.

[Eugéne Alberts]

Make sure they tape off or clay coat your threads properly before doing the coating.

Also, the pivots.

 

Handed my frame in for coating and the came back with nice smooth threads.

 

Had to have my LBS tap all of them.

[throttles]

Morning all,

Anyone Ceramic coat their Carbon frameset and/ wheelset?

I'm keen to go this route on my new bike but want to know who has had it done and where it has been done.

Thanks..

[Barry]

There are a few ceramic coat how to videos on GCN. Seems to be a simple diy thing.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DLiRE4A855dY&ved=2ahUKEwjm57Td3K6CAxXsXUEAHZ0LDXsQo7QBegQIDRAF&usg=AOvVaw06GpOJFJ7voYILpsRA66b7

[Bike Dewing]

I powder coated an aluminum mtb frame up here in jozi and it came out awesome.. 

you gotta be careful with who you get to sandblast the frame.. they can mess your frame up real quick.. the guy that did mine had done bike frames before with good results..

the matte finish wasn’t as “matte” as a spray job but it still looked good.. and yeah you can’t mix colours like you can with paint.. the colours come from the factory and that’s the colour.. 

My bike was stripped down by local bike shop for R1200, basically a major service, and the frame was sandblasted and powder coated for about R700.. 

a local spray shop quoted me almost R10 000 to do the same flat colour.. 

[Chadvdw67]

4 hours ago, Michael Dewing said:

I powder coated an aluminum mtb frame up here in jozi and it came out awesome.. 

you gotta be careful with who you get to sandblast the frame.. they can mess your frame up real quick.. the guy that did mine had done bike frames before with good results..

the matte finish wasn’t as “matte” as a spray job but it still looked good.. and yeah you can’t mix colours like you can with paint.. the colours come from the factory and that’s the colour.. 

My bike was stripped down by local bike shop for R1200, basically a major service, and the frame was sandblasted and powder coated for about R700.. 

a local spray shop quoted me almost R10 000 to do the same flat colour.. 

When you say "mix colours" do you mean like fades? I know a Powder coating place in Boksburg that did a really nice fade job on a BMX frame many years ago, pretty sure they could/can still do it 

[Bike Dewing]

1 minute ago, Chadvdw67 said:

When you say "mix colours" do you mean like fades? I know a Powder coating place in Boksburg that did a really nice fade job on a BMX frame many years ago, pretty sure they could/can still do it 

No I mean mixing like two colours to get another shade of colour.. although I was also told fades were not possible.. 🤔 so that’s interesting.. 😳

[Chadvdw67]

Just now, Michael Dewing said:

No I mean mixing like two colours to get another shade of colour.. although I was also told fades were not possible.. 🤔 so that’s interesting.. 😳

I guess it is true that cant really mix your own colours, but having looked at just a handful of the colours at the place PYGA, uses for their powders, prismtic powders I think, there are SO MANY colours I really doubt a person would ever struggle to find a very close match

[Bike Dewing]

13 minutes ago, Chadvdw67 said:

I guess it is true that cant really mix your own colours, but having looked at just a handful of the colours at the place PYGA, uses for their powders, prismtic powders I think, there are SO MANY colours I really doubt a person would ever struggle to find a very close match

Oh 100%.!

they had a large wall of colour swatches available.. and very close to the type of green I wanted.. I was very happy..

[Aron Horn]

Would you be able to send me the contact of the guy you used to get your frame sandblasted and powder coated Michael? 
 

Would really appreciate it. 0817176754

4 hours ago, Michael Dewing said:

Oh 100%.!

they had a large wall of colour swatches available.. and very close to the type of green I wanted.. I was very happy..