removing powder coat

[mobil1syn]

how hard is it to remove powder coat from wheels? im talking DIY, i know i can send them out for sandblast

found a set of wheels that check the boxes on what i want but dont like the color.

 

[urjb]

Better be cheap.. probably a PITA

I’ve seen the guy at the powder coater burning it off with a weed burner torch before sand blasting.

Can you just repaint?.. if the powder coat is in good shape, it should take paint nicely.

 

[Gumbybronco]

It’s a plastic power melted on. Maybe 2 layers.
Sand blast would be really tough on a good powder coat.

If the powder coat isn’t chipped and looks all intact, then rough it up and paint it.

Are they pink or something?

 

[bdkw1]

Old Jasco paint and epoxy remover would take it right off. The new environmentally friendly version will but it's a pain.

 

[Aisin]

Aircraft paint stripper.

 

[Byro]

My powder coach guy says prepping wheels is the biggest pain in the ass. He said the non EPA friendly powder coat from overseas is some tough stuff.

 

[gt1guy]

Aircraft paint stripper.

It needs to be the old formula. New shit sucks. If it doesn't say it will make retarded babies, it's not the good stuff.

Methylene Chloride is the wonder ingredient. I found the stuff on ebay a couple years ago when all the HD and Lowes stuff failed.

Can looks like this.

 

[NDCjeepsmith]

Burning it off can work. Aircraft stripper will also but anyway is a pain in the ass DIY wise.

If you blast them, be careful if they're aluminum. Too rough a media will pit the fuck out of them.

 

[mobil1syn]

Are they pink or something?

black, i want polished.

collecting pieces for the next build, kinda
want it to be era correctish (early 2000s dezert racing) original plan was walker, but they stopped making fullsize wheels and are only utv. so ive been looking for used stuff and there isnt a ton out there.


the wheels in question are an ok deal, but based on the comments here it would tough to justify the hassle to get them stripped and polished.

 

[Zg86]

Easiest way I have found is a torch and wire wheel

 

[bdkw1]

black, i want polished.

collecting pieces for the next build, kinda
want it to be era correctish (early 2000s dezert racing) original plan was walker, but they stopped making fullsize wheels and are only utv. so ive been looking for used stuff and there isnt a ton out there.


the wheels in question are an ok deal, but based on the comments here it would tough to justify the hassle to get them stripped and polished.

Find a mexican wheel polishing place. I got alcoas stripped and polished pretty cheap.

 

[Etyler2]

I would live with the black, at least it’s neutral.

My Dad worked at a powder coating facility that had a sketchy stripper pit that if you lowered anything painted into it below the cooling tower tubes, the grease and 30 years of multiple paint jobs on valve covers, it’s all dripped off then you chased it with a pressure washer wand to blast it for like 30 seconds.

They fucked up the color on a bike frame (very high end) and after soaking it in the caustic tank it only took 8 hours of sandblasting to get it back to clean metal.

I’d do it last or live with it.

 

[91samurai]

The key to getting citristrip or similar to work is not letting it air dry. I cleaned up a used gooseneck hitch that was powder coated by applying the citristrip with a paintbrush and wrapping everything with cling wrap. 2 weeks later it still had not dried out and was working.

 

[McBastard79]

Good info on the Citristrip. I tested a little amount of that stuff on a powder coated bike frame. A lot of the Citristrip dried up and was useless. But a good amount actually worked well.