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Originally Posted by Mike
Show me a real world case of someone wheels breaking due to powdercoat, not a friend of a friend who knew someone. If you can, chances are there was a structural defect in the wheel all along. 400 degrees for a. Hour isn't going t weaken the wheel. I've got a couple thousand track miles on my powdercoated wheels on the z and had a similar amount on the powdercoated wheels on the c6.
How a out metallic black wheels? black from a distance, but really sharp in the sun and up close. When I did powdercoat wheels, it was a very popular color with my corvette people. I don't coat them now just because they take too much time and I have a constant backlog of caliper orders.
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Mike,
Glad you responded. I saw you are a professional powdercoater on another thread so it'll be good to pick your brain on the subject.
One of the things I read was on this link:
i want my wheels black, or something dark - evolutionm.net
Also, do you know about annealing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing_(metallurgy)
Metal and Metallurgy engineering - Aluminum wheel failure after powder coating?
(^-- that one if from a engineers and metallurgy forum)
These things look pretty compelling against powdercoating... Unless you know for a fact the composition and temperature the original wheels were formed under, you can't say that 400 degrees is acceptable for powdercoating. If the original wheels were forged at 350, then obviously 400 will cause some issues. Do you have any proof that it IS safe?
I'm not trying to knock what you do by any means, there just seems to be a lot of information for and against powdercoating. If I were to proceed with something like that, I need to know that without a shadow of a doubt, that it is safe.
I like your idea on the color. Is there a special name for that color?