whats the best way to get this stuff off. I am out in my yard now. its 105 degrees. I have a hopper shooting sandblasting sand with a compressor that holds 12.5 cfm at 90 psi. This stuff is not coming off. It just changes colors when the sand hits it. I had one bar that was painted with regular auto paint and it blew that right off but powder coating is tough. I have been working about 30 minutes on a 12 inch section. taking a crimped wire cup on my side grinder to scuff up the paint and then following up with the sandblasting but this is going to take forever this way. help anyone as soon as you can before I have a heat stroke in my yard:confused::eek:

Jay, when I looked into having my chassis done over the winter, a local powdercoater told me that once its coated if I wanted to change my color scheme the coating would have to be burned off, so I just went with paint instead. Good luck there!
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Sandblasting does in fact work. You just need something much more powerful. I used to sandblast frames all the time when I worked with my father and we used a pretty large pressure pot (Held about 800lbs. of sand) and a diesel compressor.

What I am saying in a round about way is blasting will work but you need more power. Also you can risk damage to the frame and weld joints so be careful.


Also Gasket Remover will work on some powder coats. But some of the newer powders are much stronger.

Try this stuff: http://www.permatex.com/products/Automotive/automotive_gasketing/gasket_removers/auto_Permatex_Gasket_Remover.htm

Your best option if you are not making any headway with your blaster is to call a couple of your local powdercoating companies and ask them if they provide burn off or can refer you to someone who does. Keep in mind when ever you blast off powedercoating with a high power blaster you take the risk of blast peening the material.

well my local powder coater is very proud of his work. he wants $450 to powder coat frame plus about another $200 to $250 to sandblast. I asked why so much and he said it was because he does a powder primer coat to make it last longer. I did ask how much to do it without but he would not do it that way. I have heard of the permatex but did not know it would do powder coat. I tell ya the burning it part is starting to sound good to me at this point.

Jay,
When we used to get our karts powdercoated, The guy who powdercoated them would use sand blaster on them if they had regular paint on them. If they had powder coat on them ,(as one I took to him did) he would chemically strip it first and then blast it to get a good finish for powder coating. his place is called Powder Plus in Carlisle , PA.
Hope that helps.
George

The place we use bakes the finish off. I know it will work for paint and I am fairly sure it will work for powdercoat as well. The shop we use charges $350 to remove and powdercoat. He usually looks the chassis over to make sure there aren't any cracks while he is at it.

I cant remember how much it was But,Rts was I think 180 to blast and the use a soda blast so it doesnt remove any metal.Also will brake fluid have any affect on powder coat I know it sure likes paint ?

yea i think rts was around $200 threw there person they deel with and around $300 for a 2 stage powder coat and it was back within a week over the winter.

I got a groovy pack of sanding disk from local hardware store. small parts of sandpaper overlapping each other that go around the disk. installed it on my sidegrinder and this baby flys. makes a nice 1/4 line down the tubing. the only problem is, ITS ONLY A 1/4 LINE DOWN TUBING!. so going to try the permatex deal this weekend. I keep hearing about burning it off. how does that work.

use a wire wheel cup on a grinder... works well

I have used a crimped wire brush on the side grinder but the bristles fly out and stick in my skin. was starting to hurt a little after a hour.

The Permatex gasket remover did have some effect on it.

if ur still having problems geting the powder coat off try some kind of paint striper first i got the stuff u spray on and scrape off it didnt do to bad of a job but had to sand off the rest

well, after 600lbs of sand its done. now nice shiny black. thanks to Registers auto collision services for there help.

Hey Jay,
The last one we did, just a few months ago, we had blasted with Walnut Shells. It did a good job in getting off the powdercoating while not hurting the metal in anyway. :)

whats the best way to get this stuff off. I am out in my yard now. its 105 degrees. I have a hopper shooting sandblasting sand with a compressor that holds 12.5 cfm at 90 psi. This stuff is not coming off. It just changes colors when the sand hits it. I had one bar that was painted with regular auto paint and it blew that right off but powder coating is tough. I have been working about 30 minutes on a 12 inch section. taking a crimped wire cup on my side grinder to scuff up the paint and then following up with the sandblasting but this is going to take forever this way. help anyone as soon as you can before I have a heat stroke in my yard:confused::eek:

My powder coat guy using a chemical to remove old

Browns powder coating in Lost creek Wv 304-669-8976

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