Originally posted by "400HP930"
Originally Posted by MinGreyCobra
I'd recommend against powdercoating the wheels if they are aluminum. It tends to be very tempermental with regards to being heated and cooled from the temperatures required by powder coat. The rate of heating and cooling has to be very slow and preceisly controlled or you will weaken the wheels. The ovens that most powder coat shops use aren't capable of that kind of control and I assume your school doesn't have anything special.
I would disregard the above statement.
I think Leonard has picked up some sort of anti-powdercoating wives tale ffrom who knows where.
The temp any aluminum object will see during powercoating is a fraction of the temps that even the shittiest aluminum can withstand and were required to manufacture the object in the first place.
The temps used are only hot enough to melt the plastic power that is used. Temperatures that could damage aluminum would incinerate any resin based power coating.
Material engineering pwnes you Leonard.
yeah i was going to do it anyways but your statement helped push me closer
