base clear over powder coat?
 

anyone paint a base clear over powder coating? looking to do somthing different.the bare metal will be clear powder coat. and i would like to know if a base clear can be applied over powder coat with out wrinkeling the powder coat.hope someone has done this with success before I try this.;)

I've done it many times, but over colored powdercoating, which is still same ,it won't wrinkle, but if you're still concerned about wrinkling, just don't load on bunch of material, let it flash between coats

thanks for the insight. posted this up after the other day when I painted a sm. tool box that I am going to use under my bench and painted it a couple of days prior and decided to make it a little more glossy so I just used a spray bomb can of clear and within minutes it completely wrinkled up.the clear was not even catylized hope this doesn't happen to the bike that I want to use this technique for.

are you sure you sprayed over powdercoat? You can do a tack coat with accelerator in clear ,let it flash 10-15 minutes following with wet coat.

If i remember right the car f-bomb had its body powdercoated before the body work was done. So i dont see any problems with it. Good luck.

must ask why...
 

Okay, I am not as experienced as many here, but I am also not shy so I will ask, "Why paint clear over powder coat?". I have had frames and suspension parts clear coated and they looked great. And now you can get just about any color and sheen you want. Powder coating is much more durable than paint, right? Why put a lighter duty finish over a heavy duty finish?

Unless... paint can be cut and polished, but I do not know if powder coating can? Is it for sheen and mirror smooth finish? (If so, maybe I am smarter than I think! :lol: )

Larry

Larry you're absolutely right, powdercoating is alot more durable than paint,and to answer your question, it can be sanded and polished to mirror finish

you will have to follow the build on my sons chopper bike that we are in the middle of to see why the thread is in with my belair [project flatlinner].I don't want to give to much away at this point. but there is a good reason.

no it was not powder coat just wanted to make shure this wouldn't happen over powdercoat. thanks for the input.:thumbsup:

so here is the reason that I needed to know.just finished painting my boys bike.the picts do not do it justicebut the bese was clear powder coat over grinder affect bare steel then the cleared was scuffed then red kandy over the top.
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