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I'm looking forward to seeing those pics Dave!
If I remember rightly Dennis was originally going to spend around $70 - but after talking to the powder coater his tube had an undercoat, then 1 or 2 colour coats, and then a clear protective coat - if I remember rightly....
Ok .... so now I went back and searched past threads to check, here's exactly what Dennis said the day before his tube went in for it's treatment:
" Price has gone up but more work required
Well part two of the story goes......
In order to completely stop the rust the guy (whom I have great faith in) is going to acid bath it after the media blasting and prior to first zinc coat, then, because I chose a translucent colour, it will need a white undercoat, then the colour and to top it off he is going to clear coat it, that makes four coats, four visits to the oven, if it aint weatherproof after that then I give up. Total price has jumped to $135 but the minute I saw the colour sample I knew it would be worth it.
I intend to matt black the interior again although he said he should be able to avoid most overspray, flock sounds like hard work and I have reservations about dust from it on the mirror. "
Then when it arrived back Denns had this to say .... (lol)
" Back from the powder coaters Woo hoo, wait till you see the 12" GSO now, talk about from rags to riches, it may not be for everyone but I LIKE IT! A very sexy light metallic ruby red tube (matching candy apple red was too hard for powder) and he even threw on a second clear coat to make it look deeper and richer at no cost. No photo's yet because I want to re-assemble it first and I cant do that until I re-spray flat black on the inside, yes quite a considerable amount of primer overspray got in to the tube. The coating is very tough and hard to scratch so I can highly recommend this to anyone needing to re-coat their tube."
The more I think about this, the keener I am to get my tube powder coated soon!
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