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Can anyone give me a rough guestimate on how much it would cost to get some barwork powdercoated, would it need to be preped much first?

im looking at getting my red rear cheezy bar and sliders done in a black and then maybe the front arb style winch bar redone so it matches the other two.

Im in SE melb but will travel a bit for a decent job/decent price.

cheers
Tim

There is a business in Tyabb basically opposite the airport and I was quoted $100 about 2 years ago to do my aluminium GQ bullbar.

Cost is dependant on amount of work and when you can ift in with someone elses batch if you're not doing a full batch.


Some colours cost extra.


If you're getting it done, get everything you want done at once - it'll work out way cheaper in the long run.

I got my front bar sand blasted for $40 and powder coat for $40 in braeside.

Where abouts?

if it was painted all the paint must be removed, if its exsiting powder coat you should just be able to sand it and go over the top.

what if it's alloy?

cheers,

Luke

wrksux wrote:Can anyone give me a rough guestimate on how much it would cost to get some barwork powdercoated, would it need to be preped much first?

im looking at getting my red rear cheezy bar and sliders done in a black and then maybe the front arb style winch bar redone so it matches the other two.

Im in SE melb but will travel a bit for a decent job/decent price.

cheers
Tim

There's a mob called Arvex in Oakleigh that did my sliders for about $60.00. That was prep and powdercoat. details below:

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Arvex Powder Coating Services Pty Ltd
Cnr Fulton & Milgate Sts Oakleigh South VIC 3167
ph: (03) 9543 1973 Powder Coating Services

You can try calling them.

Always Powder Coating
9 Gatwick Rd,
Bayswater.

Very helpfull guy there by the name of "Ehab", knows his shiat and loves a chat. He has a set of rims of mine at the moment ...

Unless you current powder coat is in perfect condition, you will need the bars blasted. They can organise that too ...

what sort of time frame is involved with turning aroud a set of rims

I got a good price from Blastworks in Campbellfield on four rims, the blasted and offered to powdercoat but I painted them. However, you could get them powdercoated as well if you wanted to!

I am not really a fan of powdercoating, I have seen a lot of powdercoated stuff where there is just a massive amount of surface rust concealed under the powdercoat after a few years, it seems to me that it "wraps" like glad wrap rather than sticking like paint ie it really only sticks to itself, not the metal. So once it gets a crack, in goes the moisture - between the powdercoat and the metal.

That's just my opinion. I also prefer being able to touch up my own paint easily.

Its just I dont have the time nor skill to prep and paint all the barwork myself so its easier and probly would look better to pay someone else to do it.

im not so keen on the red barwork the PO had going

Bowhunter wrote:what if it's alloy?

cheers,

Luke

easy, they just use a special prep coat then straight over the top.

Thanks!

Luke 8)

if it has been painted befor get it sand blasted not paint stripper. If it powder coated all ready they will just re spray it. As you are lookig at going black it wont be a problem to find a place it on the end of a run and it will be cheaper as the client of the run has paid for the powder. If it is a special colour ti will cost, minimum paint charge for any work in sydney is around the $200 mark. You will here people say they paid $50 odd dollars to get rims painted or something, these are ones that have had there job done in standard colours as they dont need to order powder. It doesnt take long to do, if it is painted in the mourning you can pic it up that arvo.

One color powder coat can be applied over another and the two wont blend.

I know this because we had a yellow item recently powder coated blue, we asked our coater and he informed us that the melt rates are different for old powder coating and new powder hence the item didn't come out green.

removing powder coating on the other hand is very difficult, it melts under sandblasting and just sticks and it melts under sanding etc.

still don't know how you remove it.

Cheers struth.

how do i tell if its a powdercoat, im fairly sure its just paint..

heat it up with blow torch ect paint will bubble very eassily were powder will take a lot more

anyone know of someone in brisbane to sandblast and powder coat a bullbar for that sort of price(100ish)?

grimbo wrote:what sort of time frame is involved with turning aroud a set of rims

Dunno yet, dropped them in on Wed but told them wasn't in a hurry so prob next week.

I'd say they could push them through stripped and coated in 2-3 days if not too busy ...

wrksux wrote:how do i tell if its a powdercoat, im fairly sure its just paint..

ring cheezy !!!
fairly certain everything gets powder coated from hm thou !!!

Shadow wrote:anyone know of someone in brisbane to sandblast and powder coat a bullbar for that sort of price(100ish)?

I got my bullbar p/c at Brendale(???) PowderCoating. Was $80

If you expect to to use the sliders and bars for protection, once it gets chipped or scraped it will start to rust and lift, paint is probably cheaper and easier to touch up if required.

midnight wrote:

Shadow wrote:anyone know of someone in brisbane to sandblast and powder coat a bullbar for that sort of price(100ish)?

I got my bullbar p/c at Brendale(???) PowderCoating. Was $80

did that iunclude sandblasting?