wesifume Posted January 4, 2010 Report Share Posted January 4, 2010 Does anyone know if there is a safe way of removing Powdercoat from Aluminium/alloy? Have a Spondon Frame, that the previous idiot owner powdercoated Want it back to standard with minimal or no damage to the polished alloy underneath. Know of anyone, or how.. ( don't say nitromorse ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marb Posted January 4, 2010 Report Share Posted January 4, 2010 If the powdercoater did a good job then he/she would have media blasted it before to get a good finish for the powder to adhere. If this is the case, which it is 'cos it is close to impossible to get powdercoat to adhere to polished alloy, then just get it media-blasted and you'll have to polish it again. I very much doubt that the coater didnt blast it, if they didn't then you should be able to flake the powdercoat off by gently tapping it with a rubbermallet to get it to crack and then peling bit by bit. But again, i doubt there will still be a polished alloy finish underneath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor Posted January 4, 2010 Report Share Posted January 4, 2010 Time to break out the wet and dry sandpaper. Use lots of water and only very fine sandpaper if you want that mirror finish. Start off with 800 and work down to 1400 then to finally finish 2500. Then the autosol. Dont expect to have any fingerprints for a few weeks and get used to looking like a coal miner. Edit due to my shit spelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will#224 Posted January 4, 2010 Report Share Posted January 4, 2010 Soda blasting would remove the coating leaving what ever finish was underneath untouched Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesifume Posted January 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Soda blasting would remove the coating leaving what ever finish was underneath untouched Good man, i contacted Holty of this parish and he got back to me. Hopefully i can meet up and get it done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budda Posted January 6, 2010 Report Share Posted January 6, 2010 You will still have to re-do the surface and in my exoerience polishing alloy is a real pain. My advice, have it done proffesionally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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