Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:18 pm by nikkinutshop
I have a considerable experience with powder coated frames. I have posted lots of reasons this will fail. Powder coating is very expensive and not as good a Rustoleum. Powder cannot be repaired with paint. Rustoleum touches up easily and only costs a few bucks.
It is important to remember that powder coating is not paint. It is coloured plastic dust that electrically sticks to the base material and then gets baked in an oven where it melts together to form a "plastic bag effect" over the base. If any surface rust is captured under the plastic the rusting will accelerate and the frame will become junk in a few years. There is no easy short-cut to surface preparation for a plastic coating to work properly. Proper surface preparation should cost as much as the coating.
The attached picture is what you can expect to happen to your frame. The number one cause of failure is inadequate surface preparation. The number two fail is from the plastic coating getting scratched and retaining moisture.
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