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rockdog57

rockdog57

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Ok I searched. Just wondering if any of you have had a buggy chassis powder coated? If you have, how much did it cost you? Just trying to get a basic cost to do mine. I know I could hit up the local places, but I’m just curious costs others have payed.:grinpimp:
 
I was in the powder coat industry for many years... about 20 years ago. Depending on complexity a full tube chassis then would be $600-$1500 for a basic color. With todays heavily triangulated chassis with a ton of faraday cage inside corners, expect upper end or more + 20 years of inflation.
 
rockdog57 said:
So what did you pay for yours?:flipoff2: That was my question.
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Without being a dick, it is going to come down to who has a oven that is going to be able to take your chassis.
Then the next variable is going to be, where is the next guy that has a comparable oven.

This may help your negotiation or not.

To answer your next question, I sent all of my stuff to a local guy. He became such a pain to deal with, one of those everything is drama and cant just do the job, the price reflected his mood of the day .... I just went out and got my own set up and now do all of my own parts,
I can tell you, almost everything in your quoted price is money made. My parts went from 70/piece to 3.50/piece doing them in house

I hope that helps.
 
SLOWPOKE693 said:
If he paid $750 and your local PC shop wants $1500 would it really fucking matter???

Or are you one of those "but the internet said it shouldn't be that much" customers?

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Nope, I just wanted a what did you pay. I’m not stupid enough to try and negotiate with a this guy paid. Thank you to those that answered my original question. Haters can carry on now.:grinpimp:
 
My son recently had the brushguard for his Superduty done,blasted, epoxy primed and smooth almost matte black powder, dropped it off on Monday picked it up on Friday $250 cash, oh and we're in BFE Indiana. Hopefully that helps :flipoff2:
 
are you sure you want to powder coat?

paint you can touch up.
 
Everything I have bought that was powder coated looked like shit 4 years later. Peeling and just not worth a fuck. I realize prep and care were probably not done well on these pieces, but fuck powder coating.:flipoff2:
 
I use HMC Performance Coatings in Tonganoxie KS for my RZR stuff. the first cage and roof I had them do was a simple single coat red that was UV stable. it was $200 cash.

Second cage I had them do I picked silver and it wasn't UV stable so they had to do a clear over it. $500

Both times they sand blasted and coated it.. Looks awesome and I tell everyone that is looking to go there.
 
brmpipes said:
Everything I have bought that was powder coated looked like shit 4 years later. Peeling and just not worth a fuck. I realize prep and care were probably not done well on these pieces, but fuck powder coating.:flipoff2:
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I've had similar experience, but when you say it people will come out of the wood work to tell you how durable the coating is.
 
grumpy356 said:
I've had similar experience, but when you say it people will come out of the wood work to tell you how durable the coating is.
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Same here. On car parts that were powder coated in a decently well controlled factory environment no less.

For a cage that isn't gonna see road salt it would probably hold up but so would a ton of cheaper things.
 
Blasting first is what I think makes the difference. Some guys just dip your parts in a wash tank and then coat. When the mill scale flakes off the steel so does the powder. You can't expect a coating like that to stay on a very smooth surface also. I've used two guys.The expensive guys stuff is on there good and he blasts everything. The cheap guys stuff flakes right off with the slightest tap from a hammer.
 
I run a powdercoating operation as part of a production plant. If you have clean HRPO steel, make sure to get all the copper deposits off the welds before coating. We run everything through a 5 stage phosphate washer. Cleaner, rinse, coater, rinse, RO halo. But if you're running anything with mill scale, you want to sandblast first. Anything that can flake off will over time, and take the powder coat with it. And once there's a chip, there's room for moisture to start to rust from the inside out. There's powdercoating for a bunch of levels of salt spray resistance. Ours will hold up to 1000+ hours. There's some, like office furniture that only requires 200 hours. Thickness of spray matters too. We run 2 to 2.5 mills. Anything more doesn't flow out right in the oven. Anything less won't have the durability. There's a ton of factors in powdercoating that determines a great or a shit product. Go to a good shop. Cutting dollars going to the most lowbuck shop will get you a lowbuck job like getting a vehicle sprayed at maaco.
 
This is the discussion I was hoping for!:smokin: I’ve considered painting it myself or powder coating. I knew I could touch up paint and not powder. But I thought powder was the go to for durability. I would consider steel it, but I want a metal flake dark blue.
 
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