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Like the topic title says, can you paint coil springs?

I have different coloured springs front and rear and was just wondering whether I could paint them to be the same and expect the paint to stay on when the springs compress and extend, or will it just crack and fall off?

Steve

Ahh i think they may need to be powdercoated - not too sure thou mate.

TOM

I dunno they mightn't bounce after all that paint
but seriously you can, but don't expect to last as long as powder coat unless you used something like POR15

just try it if it falls off u havent lost much

I painted mine when i put them in. Just scuffed them up with steel wool, wiped them over with grease remover and hit them with an $8 spray can from bunnings. And that was 2 years ago,no worries since.

mate id say powder coat em

its alot more durable then spray paint


<im a powder coater>

Man, this is pure tech!!!!

chrome

antt wrote:chrome

tar and feathers!

Wendle wrote:

antt wrote:chrome

tar and feathers!

and those bloody bugs hat stuff the duco...

don't powder coat them.

the industry loves the use of powder coat as sandblasting and powder coating is generally under one roof, hence quick turnarounds. customers see the common use and the perceved chip resistance as good and a false hope for what is a crap product has begun. powder coat does not form a uniform cropsslinked layer. it is porous. so although it appears to have good chip resistance when new it is due to thickness rather than the paints structural integrity. hence when salt air, water etc moves through the porous layer rust builds and the poor surface to powder bond (due to not being wet when applied) releases and falls away. this is not so much due to spring compression etc cracking the paint rather the hard to bend thick film, coupled with poor bond.

use 2 pac automotive acrylic, such as spies hecker. it has good coverage hence reduced necessary thickness, great bond to metal (without or with a good etch primer) and is not porous hence won't rust. all wet applied paints are good for these rasons, thats why even poor paints in spray cans last in this application when no exposed to sun.

sorry to ramble, i'ts one of my sore points
cheers

TuffRR wrote:Man, this is pure tech!!!!

Powdercoating no different than any other type of paint you get what you pay for.It can last ten weeks or ten years depending on the paint and how its applied.
Regards Charlie

powder coating is no differe from painting
it can last years when and if serface is prepared right
only reason it rust is becuase the clown that coated it didnt do a good job
hence its patchy light in some spot heavy in others
powder coating somthing thick is not always a good thing can mean it chips alot easier
also if its applyed evenly with a good earth you will get good results
there are different powders and ingredants for different sorts of jobs
not like its one powder dose all hehehe

<sorry guys if i sound very defenceive but i powder coat for a living
and have never had any problems nor complaints >
i powder coated alot of the rivers shop fittings , bunnings
and other places like that

i even did my bash plat myself space blue looks good and still in one

I just use red aerasole paint fromthe $2 shop on my coils. That was 2yrs ago and they still look alright.

Op if we're talking what we've actually done - on my first 2 sets of spengs I did zilch....yeah they got some surface rust etc....but I upgraded each set after 1-2 years.....my current set are powercoated.....