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Frame Painting is Powder Coating best?
SteveW:
Can I ask what do you do with the riveted on vin plate when you paint / powder coat?
It must be almost impossible to remove without marking the plate.
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
--- Quote from: SteveW on February 08, 2021, 11:55:59 AM ---Can I ask what do you do with the riveted on vin plate when you paint / powder coat?
It must be almost impossible to remove without marking the plate.
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I'm advised that if you carefully drill out the rivet head then use cheese wire or similar to break any remaining adhesion between plate & frame they come off okay.
I'll just mask mine off if I paint the frame myself - this is my most likely plan - just need to check I can get Hamerite Smooth or Rust Oleum in my chosen shade of dark blue.
Johnny4428:
We managed to grind a groove in a Stanley knife blade and drive in behind the rivets underneath the plate, removed rivets and plate together, thankfully no damage.
hairygit:
--- Quote from: Macabethiele (Ted) on February 08, 2021, 12:39:37 PM ---
--- Quote from: SteveW on February 08, 2021, 11:55:59 AM ---Can I ask what do you do with the riveted on vin plate when you paint / powder coat?
It must be almost impossible to remove without marking the plate.
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I'm advised that if you carefully drill out the rivet head then use cheese wire or similar to break any remaining adhesion between plate & frame they come off okay.
I'll just mask mine off if I paint the frame myself - this is my most likely plan - just need to check I can get Hamerite Smooth or Rust Oleum in my chosen shade of dark blue.
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Be careful, smoothrite is NOT anything like as good as it used to be. The EU eurocrats decided that we citizens could not be trusted to use the original stuff safely, so it has been refunded formulated to have far less volatile organic compounds in it, namely halocarbons such as trichloroethylene, resulting in a basically rubbish product compared to what most of us remember. It now takes several coats to achieve anything like the protection a single coat of the old formula gave. I don't know about rustoleum as I've not used it for many years, but chances are it will be similarly interfered with.
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Green1:
--- Quote from: Macabethiele (Ted) on February 08, 2021, 12:39:37 PM ---
--- Quote from: SteveW on February 08, 2021, 11:55:59 AM ---Can I ask what do you do with the riveted on vin plate when you paint / powder coat?
It must be almost impossible to remove without marking the plate.
--- End quote ---
I'm advised that if you carefully drill out the rivet head then use cheese wire or similar to break any remaining adhesion between plate & frame they come off okay.
I'll just mask mine off if I paint the frame myself - this is my most likely plan - just need to check I can get Hamerite Smooth or Rust Oleum in my chosen shade of dark blue.
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Would you like to be a Guinea pig for me. I use Tikkurila products for everything now but havn't had a chance to try there Temalac FD yet they do it in FD50 (semi gloss) and FD 80 (gloss) I think its just under £35 for 3lt
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