Topic: Powder Coating or Spray Paint

[CapeCafe]

If you are going to have a quality PC shop do a frame, swing arm and triple tree, from prep to bake, it's gonna be $450-$500.  You go to a shop that just wipes, applies and bakes, the stuffs gonna peel off within a year.  IMHO, paint is the way to go.  You pay a good shop to blast your parts and use Eastwood Chassis black to cover it.  It will last as long as PC providing you prep the parts correctly before painting.  Vent well and you can get away with 1 can of primer and 2 cans of paint.  Cost around $100 with shipping.  Quality an longevity of any paint job, on any part is directly related to the quality of your prep.  You get what you pay for with PC.

[jaguar]

Might be a good time to discuss the project though.
95% of people that want to build a "café racer" take the whole freaking bike apart day one, and day two start talking about PC or paint.
This is almost the worst idea since the Honda Hawk.

You need to finish the bike 100% mechanically before thinking about making it look nice.
Waste of time and money to coat/paint a frame now.  Have you removed the un needed brackets?  Or even know what will be needed or not?
Maybe you need to add something...

Personally if you are worried about $200, and bargaining $25 off you need to refocus this "build"
Have you already spend a grand on tires, brakes, ect ect?

[AlekStooge]

This is my tank after powdercoat. I think it turned out nice, other than the lock and spring melting!

[Powderman]

If you are going to have a quality PC shop do a frame, swing arm and triple tree, from prep to bake, it's gonna be $450-$500.  You go to a shop that just wipes, applies and bakes, the stuffs gonna peel off within a year.  IMHO, paint is the way to go.  You pay a good shop to blast your parts and use Eastwood Chassis black to cover it.  It will last as long as PC providing you prep the parts correctly before painting.  Vent well and you can get away with 1 can of primer and 2 cans of paint.  Cost around $100 with shipping.  Quality an longevity of any paint job, on any part is directly related to the quality of your prep.  You get what you pay for with PC.

Works both ways. replace PC with paint and paint with PC in your post and it says the same thing. Both are you get what you pay for. PC has advantages over paint, this can't be argued. If your paint lasted  a long time, PC would last as long if not more. If your paint lasted years then the issue of chip fix becomes moot because the chances of chipping correctly done powder is very slim. Paint is environmentally hazardous.

[Dos]

Hello all,

I got it sandblasted and powder coated for 200 dollars..

When i first went to pick it up, oil started coming up through the frame
So they did it again and I came back and it looks great.. I just have to punch through the rear wheel adjuster

[grcamna2]

Hello all,

I got it sandblasted and powder coated for 200 dollars..

When i first went to pick it up, oil started coming up through the frame
So they did it again and I came back and it looks great.. I just have to punch through the rear wheel adjuster

pics !