Black Powdercoat??
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whiterubicon
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If you are looking to save money by doing this then you are looking in the wrong direction. Very expensive. You can buy the black steel ones that many on here run brand new for less. The reason it is so costly is that they would need a lot of prep work before the powder coating could begin. If you are looking to do alumnium rims for the look then that would make more since. You could also just have them painted if durability was not an issue.
TwistedCU
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OR, you can just paint them yourself with a rattle can.
Those were done with VHT wheel paint (satin Black)
after clicking here, scroll down to the polyurethane wheel paint:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/369946/AFTER.jpg
Those were done with VHT wheel paint (satin Black)
after clicking here, scroll down to the polyurethane wheel paint:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/369946/AFTER.jpg
You can have this done and it's not too expensive if you find the right place or know someone. I work in a wheel manufacturing plant and we powdercoat about 80% of the wheels we make. There's three ways you can do it...1. clean and paint the rim, then have a clear powercoat put on top of the paint, 2. have a clear powdercoat put on then color on top of the powdercoat, then clear paint on top of the color (this is how most wheel manufacturers do it) or 3. some places have colored powdercoat (I've heard this is most expensive). As for powdering used rims, I wouldn't recommend it unless you can completley clean them of ALL grease and oil. Powder coating is very vulernable to grease and oils. The powder will swell up (look like little tiny zits all over the wheel) if there's any kind of contaminants on the wheel especially when it goes through the ovens. The ovens will heat up the grease and oils and produce vapors which will completley ruin your powdercoating job. Even with the degreasing and etching processes that our new wheels go through, we still get some wheels that don't turn out, I'd like to see what a used wheel would look like....I'd just paint em.
purpleyjgirl
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My husband has powdercoated his mustang rims white, kawasaki rims Green, and suzuki, brushed aluminum. He has never had a problem with all used rims. But like Craig said you have to clean them real good or the powder doesnt stick right and when you cook them it comes out kinda like orange peal in paint. Good luck :wink:
That goes for any used part to be powdercoated, if it can be done tho its way cool!!!!!!!!
That goes for any used part to be powdercoated, if it can be done tho its way cool!!!!!!!!
