Originally Posted by E-Loc540

Heres my buddy out of Fredericksburg, VA. He just finished my badass supermoto. Dude has sick coating skills and does things that many powdercoaters cant even believe is pcoat. Imma try to put up a pic of a gas tank he did for a V-Rod, it will blow you away.
http://www.myspace.com/showoffms

Originally Posted by RROCCO

it would prolly look similar to this.


i would pc the passenger pegs and rearsets the same flat color as the frame and just do the heel guard in gold as well as the sprocket. could do the stator engine covers in gold too.

Originally Posted by YSRRider

you cant do a quality job with a craftsman gun. the wheels need to be sand blasted at low pressure 40-60psi with 80 mesh or finer aluminum oxide, NOT GLASS BEAD! Glass bead does not bring you down to "virgin metal" Glass bead will take the surface and fold it down into itself so any contamination like dirt and oils is pushed into the metal and will come back to the surface during the bake. Is $80/wheel just coating and then blasting is separate? there is no way I will coat a wheel for $80 unless its for a friend. I thoroughly blast everything, chemically treat the metal for better adhesion and to wash the metal (rinse away dust) and then I prebake the rims. Once they come out of the oven the first time, I mask all the critical surfaces, masking the rims when they are hot allows the masking to stretch into corners better. There is a bit of labor involved in rims to do them right and make them look like they were done professionally and not done in someones basement with a craftsman gun.


this is what a professional job looks like.....

Originally Posted by kylenv

that is some sick *** work! the 636 frame in red and black looks crazy

Originally Posted by YSRRider

you cant do a quality job with a craftsman gun. the wheels need to be sand blasted at low pressure 40-60psi with 80 mesh or finer aluminum oxide, NOT GLASS BEAD! Glass bead does not bring you down to "virgin metal" Glass bead will take the surface and fold it down into itself so any contamination like dirt and oils is pushed into the metal and will come back to the surface during the bake. Is $80/wheel just coating and then blasting is separate? there is no way I will coat a wheel for $80 unless its for a friend. I thoroughly blast everything, chemically treat the metal for better adhesion and to wash the metal (rinse away dust) and then I prebake the rims. Once they come out of the oven the first time, I mask all the critical surfaces, masking the rims when they are hot allows the masking to stretch into corners better. There is a bit of labor involved in rims to do them right and make them look like they were done professionally and not done in someones basement with a craftsman gun.


this is what a professional job looks like.....

Originally Posted by RollinRedneck

I paid 80 bucks for powder coat saftey orange with clear coat

Originally Posted by ownage

yep but my friend has a $900 gun so you dont have to fluff the powder and stuff he turned a sea land container into a propane oven...it's pimp and he does kick *** work,..does business with local chopper shops..

Originally Posted by YSRRider

I can see why, dude didnt even mask off the brake rotor surfaces, those are machined from the factory for a reason.




a $900 gun is nothing. A professional powder coating gun costs about $4000+, there is one out that cost over $12,000. Color changes by just pressing a button on the gun... its wicked but too much gun for a shop that is not spraying on a continuous conveyor line.