I know the easiest is to give the frame to the powder coater and to have him deal with it.
But lets say I want to save some money and and DIY it. What is the cheapest/easiest way to remove it?
And no using sand paper is not an option 
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Easy way to remove powder coat.
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just a shot in the dark, but how about paint stripper?
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Del will they work for powder coat as it's a PU based paint or are you talking about a heat gun?
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nitromoors or something - can but try. it is just paint after all. powder coating is just a method of application.
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Nitromors and a wire brush. Watch out though, it's evil stuff.
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Ok thanks everyone I'll dig into it
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If my old Orange 5 was anything to go by, never again am I gonna tackle a powdercoated frame with Nitromoors - reckon It took near 7 hours in total to get it back to bare metal
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7 hours.......... Crap
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oxy-acetylene gas-axe?
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Yep, attacked it in four sittings...after about an hour and a half each time I got bored!
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dip and strip or blast. Stripper may work depending on the powder, but it will be hard work.
it is just paint after all. powder coating is just a method of application
Not really, its a different chemistry to most wet paint.
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A school of piranha can strip a frame to the bare
bonemetal inside ten seconds.Beats scraping away at it for seven hours, fo shizzle.
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To be fair I am wondering about the "new" colour. Part of me is wondering if I should not have it bare with just a PU varnish on it. Other option could be hi viz commencal orange, or a green (probably a hi viz commencal green). I could go back to red indeed.
I have googled for RAL charts, but I can't find anything decent.OK I am going to make it a new thread
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anyway, if you are getting it powdercoated, the painstripping/shotblast is included in the price.
Scraping away at nitromorsed frame means you are truly hardcore. Did my pedals once, quite satisfying in a strange, harmful, toxic chemical way.
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the painstripping/shotblast is included in the price.
Don't think it is. At least not in a paint shop (like motorcycling paint shop). I'll try and dig about who does industrial powder coating.Posted 2 years ago # -
A mate of mine is a sprayer, sometimes he gets pc'd parts to paint, I could be wrong but I think he uses a lye bath to shift it. Nitromors does work but not very well.
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Nitromors does work but not very well.
2nd that. I spent a very unhappy approx 10 hrs on a frame many moons ago. Wire brush and niromors + eyes is a bit of a gamble too! A blow torch and wire brush is safer, but always wear goggles. I'd take it to a powder coaters and ask what they use, i'll bet there's an easy option.
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"I could be wrong but I think he uses a lye bath to shift it"
lye or caustic soda would be ok on steel, but does eat into aluminium though
(just ask Malcom when he cleaned Ogri's bike with it)
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Ah, maybe that's only for steel parts then. I'll see if I can find out what he uses for aluminium. Something horrible and toxic probably
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sorry - thought you were just clearing the paint from your crack. more industrialised methods probably nore appropriate. i also would have thought any powdercoater would blast it for you before spraying?
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